Tom Nursall
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Tom Nursall is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the 2004 comedy adventure film "Without a Paddle."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom Nursall canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6730634 — 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 Nursall Context triple: [Without a Paddle, screenwriter, Tom Nursall]
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A.
Paul Givan
Paul Givan is a Democratic Unionist Party politician who served as First Minister of Northern Ireland.
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B.
Alan Milburn
Alan Milburn is a British Labour politician and former Secretary of State for Health who later became a prominent figure in public service reform and higher education leadership.
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C.
Graham Simpson
Graham Simpson was an English bassist best known as a founding member of the art rock band Roxy Music.
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D.
Chris Haywood
Chris Haywood is an Australian actor known for his extensive work in film, television, and theatre since the 1970s.
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E.
Douglas Guilfoyle
Douglas Guilfoyle is an international law scholar known for his work on the law of the sea, maritime security, and international criminal law.
- 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 Nursall Target entity description: Tom Nursall is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the 2004 comedy adventure film "Without a Paddle."
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A.
Paul Givan
Paul Givan is a Democratic Unionist Party politician who served as First Minister of Northern Ireland.
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B.
Alan Milburn
Alan Milburn is a British Labour politician and former Secretary of State for Health who later became a prominent figure in public service reform and higher education leadership.
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C.
Graham Simpson
Graham Simpson was an English bassist best known as a founding member of the art rock band Roxy Music.
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D.
Chris Haywood
Chris Haywood is an Australian actor known for his extensive work in film, television, and theatre since the 1970s.
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E.
Douglas Guilfoyle
Douglas Guilfoyle is an international law scholar known for his work on the law of the sea, maritime security, and international criminal law.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| coWriterOf | Without a Paddle ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure film
ⓘ
adventure film ⓘ comedy ⓘ comedy film ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | Without a Paddle ⓘ |
| 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 Nursall Description of subject: Tom Nursall is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the 2004 comedy adventure film "Without a Paddle."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.