Thomas Valles
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Thomas Valles is a central high school runner in the film "McFarland, USA," whose personal struggles and growth help drive the underdog cross-country team's inspiring journey.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Valles canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6150583 — 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 Valles Context triple: [McFarland, USA, character, Thomas Valles]
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A.
Rick Martinez
Rick Martinez is a fictional NASA astronaut and pilot in Andy Weir’s science fiction novel "The Martian."
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B.
Ian Hultquist
Ian Hultquist is an American composer and musician best known for his film and television scores and as a founding member and former keyboardist of the indie pop band Passion Pit.
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C.
Robert Marcarelli
Robert Marcarelli is a film director best known for his work in Christian-themed and independent cinema.
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D.
Frank Mauro
Frank Mauro is a musician known for being a member of the influential New York punk band Richard Hell and the Voidoids.
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E.
John David Stier
John David Stier is the son of Nobel Prize–winning mathematician John Nash and Eleanor Stier.
- 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 Valles Target entity description: Thomas Valles is a central high school runner in the film "McFarland, USA," whose personal struggles and growth help drive the underdog cross-country team's inspiring journey.
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A.
Rick Martinez
Rick Martinez is a fictional NASA astronaut and pilot in Andy Weir’s science fiction novel "The Martian."
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B.
Ian Hultquist
Ian Hultquist is an American composer and musician best known for his film and television scores and as a founding member and former keyboardist of the indie pop band Passion Pit.
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C.
Robert Marcarelli
Robert Marcarelli is a film director best known for his work in Christian-themed and independent cinema.
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D.
Frank Mauro
Frank Mauro is a musician known for being a member of the influential New York punk band Richard Hell and the Voidoids.
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E.
John David Stier
John David Stier is the son of Nobel Prize–winning mathematician John Nash and Eleanor Stier.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | McFarland, USA ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Coach Jim White
ⓘ
linked to:
coach Jim White
|
| basedOn | real-life runner Thomas Valles from McFarland, California ⓘ |
| characterArc | personal growth through discipline and teamwork ⓘ |
| characterDevelopment | learns responsibility and commitment ⓘ |
| contributesTo | the team’s journey to become a championship contender ⓘ |
| genre | sports drama ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | true story of the McFarland High School cross-country team ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
protagonist
ⓘ
underdog athlete ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | Mexican-American ⓘ |
| occupation | high school student ⓘ |
| portrayedAs | talented but troubled runner ⓘ |
| productionCompanyOfWork | Walt Disney Pictures ⓘ |
| roleInWork | central runner on the McFarland cross-country team ⓘ |
| setting | McFarland, California ⓘ |
| sport | cross-country running ⓘ |
| team |
McFarland High School cross-country team
ⓘ
linked to:
McFarland High School
|
| themeInvolvement |
family struggle
ⓘ
mentorship ⓘ overcoming adversity ⓘ perseverance ⓘ |
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 Valles Description of subject: Thomas Valles is a central high school runner in the film "McFarland, USA," whose personal struggles and growth help drive the underdog cross-country team's inspiring journey.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.