Tommy Barban
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Tommy Barban is a daring and enigmatic soldier of fortune who plays a pivotal role in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel "Tender Is the Night."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tommy Barban canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3315695 — 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: Tommy Barban Context triple: [Tender Is the Night, notableCharacter, Tommy Barban]
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A.
Tommy Leach
Tommy Leach was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball third baseman and outfielder best known for his speed, defensive skill, and starring role with the Pittsburgh Pirates, including in the first modern World Series in 1903.
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B.
Tommy Luske
Tommy Luske is an American former child actor best known for providing the voice of the title character in Disney’s 1953 animated film "Peter Pan."
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C.
Tommy Taylor
Tommy Taylor was an English footballer and prolific centre-forward for Manchester United and the England national team in the 1950s.
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D.
Tommy Ross
Tommy Ross is a popular high school student in Stephen King’s horror novel "Carrie," known for his pivotal role in inviting Carrie White to the prom.
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E.
Tommy Cogbill
Tommy Cogbill was a renowned American session bassist, producer, and member of the Muscle Shoals and Memphis soul scenes, known for his influential work on numerous classic R&B and soul recordings.
- 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: Tommy Barban Target entity description: Tommy Barban is a daring and enigmatic soldier of fortune who plays a pivotal role in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel "Tender Is the Night."
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A.
Tommy Leach
Tommy Leach was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball third baseman and outfielder best known for his speed, defensive skill, and starring role with the Pittsburgh Pirates, including in the first modern World Series in 1903.
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B.
Tommy Luske
Tommy Luske is an American former child actor best known for providing the voice of the title character in Disney’s 1953 animated film "Peter Pan."
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C.
Tommy Taylor
Tommy Taylor was an English footballer and prolific centre-forward for Manchester United and the England national team in the 1950s.
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D.
Tommy Ross
Tommy Ross is a popular high school student in Stephen King’s horror novel "Carrie," known for his pivotal role in inviting Carrie White to the prom.
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E.
Tommy Cogbill
Tommy Cogbill was a renowned American session bassist, producer, and member of the Muscle Shoals and Memphis soul scenes, known for his influential work on numerous classic R&B and soul recordings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ mercenary ⓘ soldier of fortune ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Tender Is the Night ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Dick Diver
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Nicole Diver ⓘ Rosemary Hoyt ⓘ |
| authorNationalityOfWorkAppearsIn | American ⓘ |
| characterRole | supporting character ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
daring
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enigmatic ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Dick Diver ⓘ |
| createdBy | F. Scott Fitzgerald ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1934 ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearsIn | modernist novel ⓘ |
| involvedIn | love triangle with Dick Diver and Nicole Diver ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkAppearsIn | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriodOfWorkAppearsIn |
Lost Generation literature
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linked to:
Lost Generation
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| narrativeFunction | catalyst for the breakup of Dick and Nicole Diver’s marriage ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableFor |
bravery in combat
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loyalty to Nicole Diver ⓘ |
| occupation |
mercenary
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soldier of fortune ⓘ |
| romanticInterestOf | Nicole Diver ⓘ |
| settingOfWorkAppearsIn |
Europe
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French Riviera ⓘ |
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: Tommy Barban Description of subject: Tommy Barban is a daring and enigmatic soldier of fortune who plays a pivotal role in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel "Tender Is the Night."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.