Tommy Holmes
E433356
Tommy Holmes was a key figure in the Hawaiian cultural renaissance, best known as a co-founder and organizer behind the revival of traditional Polynesian voyaging and navigation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tommy Holmes canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4351480 — 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 Holmes Context triple: [Polynesian Voyaging Society, foundedBy, Tommy Holmes]
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A.
Orlando Murden
Orlando Murden was an American songwriter best known for co-writing the classic soul ballad "For Once in My Life."
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B.
Peter Masterson
Peter Masterson was an American actor, director, producer, and writer best known for co-writing and co-directing the film adaptation of the musical "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
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C.
Loutelious Holmes Jr.
Loutelious "T. J." Holmes Jr. is an American journalist and television personality best known for his work as a news anchor and correspondent on major U.S. networks such as CNN and ABC.
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D.
Charles Carson
Charles Carson is the dignified and traditional butler of Downton Abbey in the British television series of the same name.
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E.
Henry Lucas
Henry Lucas was a 17th-century English clergyman, politician, and benefactor whose endowment led to the creation of the prestigious Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
- 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 Holmes Target entity description: Tommy Holmes was a key figure in the Hawaiian cultural renaissance, best known as a co-founder and organizer behind the revival of traditional Polynesian voyaging and navigation.
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A.
Orlando Murden
Orlando Murden was an American songwriter best known for co-writing the classic soul ballad "For Once in My Life."
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B.
Peter Masterson
Peter Masterson was an American actor, director, producer, and writer best known for co-writing and co-directing the film adaptation of the musical "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
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C.
Loutelious Holmes Jr.
Loutelious "T. J." Holmes Jr. is an American journalist and television personality best known for his work as a news anchor and correspondent on major U.S. networks such as CNN and ABC.
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D.
Charles Carson
Charles Carson is the dignified and traditional butler of Downton Abbey in the British television series of the same name.
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E.
Henry Lucas
Henry Lucas was a 17th-century English clergyman, politician, and benefactor whose endowment led to the creation of the prestigious Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hawaiian cultural figure
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Polynesian voyaging advocate ⓘ human ⓘ |
| associatedWith | traditional Polynesian wayfinding ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Polynesian Voyaging Society ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
public awareness of Polynesian wayfinding
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revival of double-hulled canoe voyaging in Hawaiʻi ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| culture |
Polynesian
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linked to:
Polynesian cultural sphere
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| ethnicGroup | Hawaiian ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Hawaiian culture
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Polynesian navigation ⓘ traditional voyaging ⓘ |
| knownFor |
revival of traditional Polynesian navigation
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revival of traditional Polynesian voyaging ⓘ role in the Hawaiian cultural renaissance ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | Hawaiian cultural renaissance ⓘ |
| notableWork | organizational work behind Polynesian voyaging revival ⓘ |
| occupation |
cultural activist
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organizer ⓘ sailor ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Hawaiʻi
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linked to:
Hawaii
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| role |
organizer behind traditional voyaging projects
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supporter of master navigators in Hawaiʻi ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Holmes Description of subject: Tommy Holmes was a key figure in the Hawaiian cultural renaissance, best known as a co-founder and organizer behind the revival of traditional Polynesian voyaging and navigation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.