Thomas Shepherd
E349917
Thomas Shepherd is an author known for writing the story for the film "Dolittle."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thomas Shepherd canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3341944 — 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: Thomas Shepherd Context triple: [Dolittle, storyBy, Thomas Shepherd]
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A.
Michael Foale
Michael Foale is a British-American astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut renowned for his long-duration missions on the Space Shuttle and Mir, and for being one of the most experienced spacefarers in history.
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B.
Edward Ward
Edward Ward was an American film composer best known for scoring numerous Hollywood films in the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Thomas Bladen
Thomas Bladen was a colonial-era British official who served as governor of Maryland and lent his name to the town of Bladensburg.
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D.
James Dodd
James Dodd is an actor known for his role in the fantasy superhero film "Hellboy II: The Golden Army."
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E.
Samuel Gloade
Samuel Gloade is a songwriter and music producer known for his credited work on the track "Off the Grid."
- 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: Thomas Shepherd Target entity description: Thomas Shepherd is an author known for writing the story for the film "Dolittle."
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A.
Michael Foale
Michael Foale is a British-American astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut renowned for his long-duration missions on the Space Shuttle and Mir, and for being one of the most experienced spacefarers in history.
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B.
Edward Ward
Edward Ward was an American film composer best known for scoring numerous Hollywood films in the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Thomas Bladen
Thomas Bladen was a colonial-era British official who served as governor of Maryland and lent his name to the town of Bladensburg.
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D.
James Dodd
James Dodd is an actor known for his role in the fantasy superhero film "Hellboy II: The Golden Army."
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E.
Samuel Gloade
Samuel Gloade is a songwriter and music producer known for his credited work on the track "Off the Grid."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre | fantasy film ⓘ |
| notableWork | Dolittle ⓘ |
| occupation |
screenwriter
ⓘ
writer ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2020 ⓘ |
| wroteStoryFor | Dolittle ⓘ |
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: Thomas Shepherd Description of subject: Thomas Shepherd is an author known for writing the story for the film "Dolittle."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.