Tom Doherty
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Tom Doherty is an American publisher best known as the founder of the science fiction and fantasy imprint Tor Books.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Doherty canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2674393 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom Doherty Context triple: [Solstice Award, hasRecipient, Tom Doherty]
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A.
Patrick Doherty
Patrick Doherty was one of the unarmed civil rights marchers shot and killed by British soldiers during the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1972.
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B.
Tony Geraghty
Tony Geraghty was a member of the popular Irish cabaret group the Miami Showband who was killed in the notorious 1975 loyalist paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland.
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C.
Kevin Corrigan
Kevin Corrigan is an American character actor known for his offbeat, often darkly comic supporting roles in numerous independent films and major studio movies.
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D.
Pat Duggan
Pat Duggan is a film producer known for work on classic Hollywood productions such as the 1953 comedy-drama "Forever Female."
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E.
Tony McCarroll
Tony McCarroll is an English drummer best known as the original drummer for the rock band Oasis, playing on their debut album "Definitely Maybe."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom Doherty Target entity description: Tom Doherty is an American publisher best known as the founder of the science fiction and fantasy imprint Tor Books.
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A.
Patrick Doherty
Patrick Doherty was one of the unarmed civil rights marchers shot and killed by British soldiers during the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1972.
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B.
Tony Geraghty
Tony Geraghty was a member of the popular Irish cabaret group the Miami Showband who was killed in the notorious 1975 loyalist paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland.
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C.
Kevin Corrigan
Kevin Corrigan is an American character actor known for his offbeat, often darkly comic supporting roles in numerous independent films and major studio movies.
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D.
Pat Duggan
Pat Duggan is a film producer known for work on classic Hollywood productions such as the 1953 comedy-drama "Forever Female."
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E.
Tony McCarroll
Tony McCarroll is an English drummer best known as the original drummer for the rock band Oasis, playing on their debut album "Definitely Maybe."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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human ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th-century publishing
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21st-century publishing ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Forge Books
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Tor Books ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Edward E. Smith Memorial Award
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Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor (special recognition / industry category) ⓘ Skylark Award ⓘ World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Tom Doherty Associates
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Tor Books ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
fantasy publishing
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science fiction publishing ⓘ |
| genrePublished |
fantasy
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horror ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
fantasy publishing industry
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science fiction publishing industry ⓘ |
| hasPartnershipWith | Macmillan Publishers ⓘ |
| industry | book publishing ⓘ |
| knownFor | developing Tor Books into a leading science fiction and fantasy imprint ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
building Tor Books into a major imprint within Macmillan
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founding Tor Books ⓘ supporting new and midlist science fiction and fantasy authors ⓘ |
| notableWork | Tor Books imprint ⓘ |
| occupation |
editor
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publisher ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
founder of Tom Doherty Associates
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founder of Tor Books ⓘ publisher at Tor Books ⓘ |
| publisherOf |
Forge Books
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Tor Books ⓘ fantasy novels ⓘ science fiction novels ⓘ speculative fiction ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Tom Doherty Description of subject: Tom Doherty is an American publisher best known as the founder of the science fiction and fantasy imprint Tor Books.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.