Tom Bates
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Tom Bates was an early 20th-century actor known for appearing in silent-era films such as the 1915 drama "The Warrens of Virginia."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Bates canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5713031 — 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 Bates Context triple: [The Warrens of Virginia (1915 film), starredActor, Tom Bates]
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A.
Eric Bates
Eric Bates is the young, wealthy boy in the 1982 comedy film "The Toy" who whimsically "purchases" a man as his personal companion, driving much of the movie’s plot and humor.
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B.
David Bartel
David Bartel is an American molecular biologist known for his pioneering research on microRNAs and RNA interference in gene regulation.
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C.
Robert Bassler
Robert Bassler was an American film producer active during Hollywood’s studio era, known for overseeing a range of mid-20th-century motion pictures.
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D.
Andrew Barrer
Andrew Barrer is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the Marvel superhero film "Ant-Man and the Wasp."
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E.
Daniel Barton
Daniel Barton is a powerful tech magnate and covert MI6 double agent who serves as a primary antagonist in the Doctor Who episode "Spyfall."
- 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 Bates Target entity description: Tom Bates was an early 20th-century actor known for appearing in silent-era films such as the 1915 drama "The Warrens of Virginia."
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A.
Eric Bates
Eric Bates is the young, wealthy boy in the 1982 comedy film "The Toy" who whimsically "purchases" a man as his personal companion, driving much of the movie’s plot and humor.
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B.
David Bartel
David Bartel is an American molecular biologist known for his pioneering research on microRNAs and RNA interference in gene regulation.
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C.
Robert Bassler
Robert Bassler was an American film producer active during Hollywood’s studio era, known for overseeing a range of mid-20th-century motion pictures.
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D.
Andrew Barrer
Andrew Barrer is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the Marvel superhero film "Ant-Man and the Wasp."
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E.
Daniel Barton
Daniel Barton is a powerful tech magnate and covert MI6 double agent who serves as a primary antagonist in the Doctor Who episode "Spyfall."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | person ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| appearedIn | The Warrens of Virginia (1915 film) ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| filmEra | silent era ⓘ |
| genre | silent film ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Warrens of Virginia (1915 film) ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
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 Bates Description of subject: Tom Bates was an early 20th-century actor known for appearing in silent-era films such as the 1915 drama "The Warrens of Virginia."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Warrens of Virginia (1915 film adaptation)