Tommy Redmond Hicks
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Tommy Redmond Hicks is an American actor best known for his prominent role in Spike Lee’s breakthrough independent film "She’s Gotta Have It."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tommy Redmond Hicks canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7230183 — 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 Redmond Hicks Context triple: [She's Gotta Have It, leadActor, Tommy Redmond Hicks]
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A.
Theodore Hickman
Theodore Hickman is the charismatic yet self-deluding traveling salesman whose arrival and revelations drive the tragic unraveling of illusions in Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Iceman Cometh."
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B.
Holter Graham
Holter Graham is an American actor and audiobook narrator known for voicing numerous popular titles across fiction and non-fiction.
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C.
Tony Hicks
Tony Hicks is an English rock guitarist best known as a longtime member of the band The Hollies.
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D.
Lamont Jody Hawkins
Lamont Jody Hawkins is an American rapper best known as U-God, a core member of the influential hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan.
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E.
Luther Hicks
Luther Hicks is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a distinct namesake of the surname Hicks.
- 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 Redmond Hicks Target entity description: Tommy Redmond Hicks is an American actor best known for his prominent role in Spike Lee’s breakthrough independent film "She’s Gotta Have It."
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A.
Theodore Hickman
Theodore Hickman is the charismatic yet self-deluding traveling salesman whose arrival and revelations drive the tragic unraveling of illusions in Eugene O’Neill’s play "The Iceman Cometh."
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B.
Holter Graham
Holter Graham is an American actor and audiobook narrator known for voicing numerous popular titles across fiction and non-fiction.
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C.
Tony Hicks
Tony Hicks is an English rock guitarist best known as a longtime member of the band The Hollies.
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D.
Lamont Jody Hawkins
Lamont Jody Hawkins is an American rapper best known as U-God, a core member of the influential hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan.
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E.
Luther Hicks
Luther Hicks is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a distinct namesake of the surname Hicks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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human ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th-century film
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21st-century film ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | African-American ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | film acting ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | independent film ⓘ |
| hasWorkType | feature film ⓘ |
| knownFor | collaboration with director Spike Lee ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | prominent role in Spike Lee's film "She's Gotta Have It" ⓘ |
| notableWork |
She's Gotta Have It
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linked to:
She’s Gotta Have It
independent film "She's Gotta Have It" ⓘ
linked to:
She’s Gotta Have It
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| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| participantIn | American independent cinema ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
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 Redmond Hicks Description of subject: Tommy Redmond Hicks is an American actor best known for his prominent role in Spike Lee’s breakthrough independent film "She’s Gotta Have It."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
She’s Gotta Have It