Tom J. Astle
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Tom J. Astle is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing mainstream comedy films such as the feature adaptation of "Get Smart."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom J. Astle canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6162095 — 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 J. Astle Context triple: [Get Smart, screenwriter, Tom J. Astle]
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A.
Leon Askin
Leon Askin was an Austrian-American character actor best known for his role as the stern General Burkhalter on the television series "Hogan's Heroes."
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B.
John Dolman
John Dolman was an English clergyman and benefactor of the late 16th century best known for establishing Pocklington School in Yorkshire.
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C.
John Easterling
John Easterling is an American businessman and environmental entrepreneur best known as the husband of singer and actress Olivia Newton-John and as the founder of the Amazon Herb Company.
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D.
Ian J. Turpin
Ian J. Turpin is a Scottish-born businessman and financial executive best known as the husband of Luci Baines Johnson, daughter of former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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E.
Alan Meade
Alan Meade is a musician best known as an early former member of the American rock band No Doubt.
- 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 J. Astle Target entity description: Tom J. Astle is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing mainstream comedy films such as the feature adaptation of "Get Smart."
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A.
Leon Askin
Leon Askin was an Austrian-American character actor best known for his role as the stern General Burkhalter on the television series "Hogan's Heroes."
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B.
John Dolman
John Dolman was an English clergyman and benefactor of the late 16th century best known for establishing Pocklington School in Yorkshire.
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C.
John Easterling
John Easterling is an American businessman and environmental entrepreneur best known as the husband of singer and actress Olivia Newton-John and as the founder of the Amazon Herb Company.
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D.
Ian J. Turpin
Ian J. Turpin is a Scottish-born businessman and financial executive best known as the husband of Luci Baines Johnson, daughter of former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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E.
Alan Meade
Alan Meade is a musician best known as an early former member of the American rock band No Doubt.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre | comedy film ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-writing mainstream comedy films
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feature adaptation of "Get Smart" ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | Get Smart ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
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 J. Astle Description of subject: Tom J. Astle is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing mainstream comedy films such as the feature adaptation of "Get Smart."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.