Thomas Gordon Wheelock
E601186
Thomas Gordon Wheelock was the husband of American actress Mary Astor, known primarily for his marriage to the Hollywood star.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thomas Gordon Wheelock canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6620973 — 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 Gordon Wheelock Context triple: [Mary Astor, spouse, Thomas Gordon Wheelock]
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A.
John Wheelock
John Wheelock was an American educator and the second president of Dartmouth College, known for expanding and consolidating the institution founded by his father, Eleazar Wheelock.
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B.
H. B. Wheelock
H. B. Wheelock was an architect best known for designing Rickwood Field, one of the oldest professional baseball parks in the United States.
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C.
Samuel Waldo
Samuel Waldo was an 18th-century American land speculator and military officer whose influence in colonial Maine led to a county being named in his honor.
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D.
Thomas Richards
Thomas Richards was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the 1941 noir "The Maltese Falcon."
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E.
Edward Mills
Edward Mills was a British architect known for designing the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Headquarters in London.
- 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 Gordon Wheelock Target entity description: Thomas Gordon Wheelock was the husband of American actress Mary Astor, known primarily for his marriage to the Hollywood star.
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A.
John Wheelock
John Wheelock was an American educator and the second president of Dartmouth College, known for expanding and consolidating the institution founded by his father, Eleazar Wheelock.
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B.
H. B. Wheelock
H. B. Wheelock was an architect best known for designing Rickwood Field, one of the oldest professional baseball parks in the United States.
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C.
Samuel Waldo
Samuel Waldo was an 18th-century American land speculator and military officer whose influence in colonial Maine led to a county being named in his honor.
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D.
Thomas Richards
Thomas Richards was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the 1941 noir "The Maltese Falcon."
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E.
Edward Mills
Edward Mills was a British architect known for designing the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Headquarters in London.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | marriage to American actress Mary Astor ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
non-celebrity spouse ⓘ |
| spouse |
Mary Astor
ⓘ
Thomas Gordon Wheelock ⓘ |
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 Gordon Wheelock Description of subject: Thomas Gordon Wheelock was the husband of American actress Mary Astor, known primarily for his marriage to the Hollywood star.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.