Tommy Durden
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Tommy Durden was an American steel guitarist and songwriter best known as a co-writer of Elvis Presley’s breakthrough hit “Heartbreak Hotel.”
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tommy Durden canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6267952 — 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 Durden Context triple: [Heartbreak Hotel, writer, Tommy Durden]
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A.
Tommy Hawk
Tommy Hawk is the anthropomorphic hawk mascot of the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks, known for entertaining fans with energetic antics at games and community events.
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B.
Tommie
Tommie is the costumed mascot representing the University of St. Thomas in its athletic and school spirit events.
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C.
Tommy
Tommy is a masculine given name, often a diminutive of Thomas, used in various English-speaking countries.
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D.
Tommy
Tommy is a landmark 1969 rock opera album by the British band The Who, telling the story of a "deaf, dumb, and blind" boy and widely regarded as one of the most influential concept albums in rock history.
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E.
Tommy Holmes
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.
- 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 Durden Target entity description: Tommy Durden was an American steel guitarist and songwriter best known as a co-writer of Elvis Presley’s breakthrough hit “Heartbreak Hotel.”
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A.
Tommy Hawk
Tommy Hawk is the anthropomorphic hawk mascot of the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks, known for entertaining fans with energetic antics at games and community events.
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B.
Tommie
Tommie is the costumed mascot representing the University of St. Thomas in its athletic and school spirit events.
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C.
Tommy
Tommy is a masculine given name, often a diminutive of Thomas, used in various English-speaking countries.
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D.
Tommy
Tommy is a landmark 1969 rock opera album by the British band The Who, telling the story of a "deaf, dumb, and blind" boy and widely regarded as one of the most influential concept albums in rock history.
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E.
Tommy Holmes
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ steel guitarist ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Elvis Presley ⓘ |
| causeOfFame |
"Heartbreak Hotel"
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linked to:
Heartbreak Hotel
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWriterWith |
Elvis Presley
ⓘ
Mae Boren Axton ⓘ |
| coWrote | Heartbreak Hotel ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1919 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1999 ⓘ |
| familyName | Durden ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
music performance
ⓘ
songwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
country music
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rock and roll ⓘ |
| givenName | Tommy ⓘ |
| instrument | steel guitar ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Tommy Durden ⓘ |
| notableFor | co-writing Elvis Presley’s breakthrough hit "Heartbreak Hotel" ⓘ |
| notableWork | Heartbreak Hotel ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
ⓘ
songwriter ⓘ steel guitarist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Georgia, United States
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linked to:
Georgia
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| placeOfDeath | Florida, United States ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| wroteFor | Elvis Presley ⓘ |
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: Tommy Durden Description of subject: Tommy Durden was an American steel guitarist and songwriter best known as a co-writer of Elvis Presley’s breakthrough hit “Heartbreak Hotel.”
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.