Thomas
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Thomas is the given name of Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron, a prominent Parliamentarian general during the English Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6736428 — 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 Context triple: [Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron, hasGivenName, Thomas]
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Thomas
Thomas is the middle name of Edward Thomas Wailes, an American diplomat.
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Thomas
Thomas is the given first name of the renowned American playwright Tennessee Williams, known for works such as "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."
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C.
Thomas
Thomas is the middle name of William T. Sampson, a notable U.S. Navy admiral from the Spanish–American War era.
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D.
Thomas
Thomas is the given first name of American astronaut Ken Mattingly, known for his role in the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs.
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E.
Thomas
Thomas is the given name of Sir Thomas Blamey, an Australian field marshal and senior military commander during World War II.
- 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 Target entity description: Thomas is the given name of Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron, a prominent Parliamentarian general during the English Civil War.
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Thomas
Thomas is the given name of Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, a prominent 17th-century English statesman and politician.
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Thomas
Thomas is the given name of Thomas Paine, the influential 18th-century political philosopher and writer known for works like "Common Sense" and "The Rights of Man."
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C.
Thomas
Thomas is the given name of Confederate General "Stonewall" Jackson, a prominent military leader during the American Civil War.
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Thomas
Thomas is the given name of Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford, a British naval officer and aristocrat known for his volatile temperament in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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E.
Thomas
Thomas is the given name of Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle, a prominent 18th-century British Whig statesman and prime minister.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| allegiance | Parliament of England ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Dent, Yorkshire
ⓘ
linked to:
Dent, Yorkshire, England
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| commanded | New Model Army ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Nun Appleton, Yorkshire
ⓘ
linked to:
Nun Appleton, Yorkshire, England
|
| familyName | Fairfax ⓘ |
| father |
Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
ⓘ
linked to:
2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
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| givenName | Thomas ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | English nobility ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Parliamentarian army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| monarchServed | under the authority of the English Parliament during the reign of Charles I of England ⓘ |
| mother | Mary Sheffield ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Fairfax family ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Parliamentarian leadership against Royalist forces
ⓘ
military reforms in the New Model Army ⓘ role as a Parliamentarian general in the English Civil War ⓘ |
| notableWork | leadership of Parliamentarian forces at the Battle of Naseby ⓘ |
| occupation |
general
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nobleman ⓘ |
| participatedIn | English Civil War ⓘ |
| positionHeld | commander-in-chief of the New Model Army ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestantism
ⓘ
linked to:
Protestant Christianity
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| spouse | Anne Vere ⓘ |
| titleHeld | Lord Fairfax of Cameron ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: Thomas is the given name of Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron, a prominent Parliamentarian general during the English Civil War.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.