Tom Costain
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Tom Costain is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood comedies, including the Adam Sandler sequel "Grown Ups 2."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Costain canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3798684 — 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 Costain Context triple: [Grown Ups 2, editedBy, Tom Costain]
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A.
Ken Lowe
Ken Lowe is an American media executive best known for creating and launching the HGTV cable television network.
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B.
Dean Pitchford
Dean Pitchford is an American songwriter, screenwriter, and director best known for co-writing hit songs like "Footloose" and for his work on the film and musical of the same name.
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C.
Roger D. Branigin
Roger D. Branigin was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as the 42nd governor of Indiana in the 1960s.
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D.
John McDonough
John McDonough was an American football official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl IV.
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E.
Al McWhiggin
Al McWhiggin is the greedy toy collector and antagonist in Pixar's animated film "Toy Story 2," known for stealing Woody to complete a valuable toy set.
- 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 Costain Target entity description: Tom Costain is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood comedies, including the Adam Sandler sequel "Grown Ups 2."
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A.
Ken Lowe
Ken Lowe is an American media executive best known for creating and launching the HGTV cable television network.
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B.
Dean Pitchford
Dean Pitchford is an American songwriter, screenwriter, and director best known for co-writing hit songs like "Footloose" and for his work on the film and musical of the same name.
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C.
Roger D. Branigin
Roger D. Branigin was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as the 42nd governor of Indiana in the 1960s.
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D.
John McDonough
John McDonough was an American football official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl IV.
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E.
Al McWhiggin
Al McWhiggin is the greedy toy collector and antagonist in Pixar's animated film "Toy Story 2," known for stealing Woody to complete a valuable toy set.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
film editor ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| edited | Grown Ups 2 ⓘ |
| genre | comedy film ⓘ |
| knownFor | Grown Ups 2 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| occupation | film editor ⓘ |
| starring |
Adam Sandler
ⓘ
Chris Rock ⓘ David Spade ⓘ Kevin James ⓘ |
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 Costain Description of subject: Tom Costain is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood comedies, including the Adam Sandler sequel "Grown Ups 2."
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.