Conal Thomson
E716920
Conal Thomson is a music video director best known for his work on the acclaimed video for Hozier’s song "Take Me to Church."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Conal Thomson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8153040 — 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: Conal Thomson Context triple: [Take Me to Church, musicVideoDirector, Conal Thomson]
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A.
John Longley
John Longley is the son of Charles Longley, who served as Archbishop of Canterbury in the 19th century.
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B.
Peter Johnstone
Peter Johnstone is a British mathematician renowned for his influential work in category theory and topos theory.
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C.
Graham Dumpleton
Graham Dumpleton is a software engineer and open-source developer best known for creating and maintaining mod_wsgi, a popular Apache module for hosting Python web applications.
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D.
Neil Wallace
Neil Wallace is an American economist known for his influential contributions to New Classical macroeconomics, particularly in monetary theory and the microfoundations of macroeconomic models.
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E.
Nigel Shadbolt
Nigel Shadbolt is a British computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher known for his leading role in promoting open data and digital governance.
- 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: Conal Thomson Target entity description: Conal Thomson is a music video director best known for his work on the acclaimed video for Hozier’s song "Take Me to Church."
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A.
John Longley
John Longley is the son of Charles Longley, who served as Archbishop of Canterbury in the 19th century.
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B.
Peter Johnstone
Peter Johnstone is a British mathematician renowned for his influential work in category theory and topos theory.
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C.
Graham Dumpleton
Graham Dumpleton is a software engineer and open-source developer best known for creating and maintaining mod_wsgi, a popular Apache module for hosting Python web applications.
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D.
Neil Wallace
Neil Wallace is an American economist known for his influential contributions to New Classical macroeconomics, particularly in monetary theory and the microfoundations of macroeconomic models.
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E.
Nigel Shadbolt
Nigel Shadbolt is a British computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher known for his leading role in promoting open data and digital governance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | music video director ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Hozier ⓘ |
| countryOfWork | Ireland ⓘ |
| director | Conal Thomson ⓘ |
| knownFor | directing music videos ⓘ |
| musicVideoFor |
"Take Me to Church" (song)
ⓘ
linked to:
Take Me to Church
|
| notableWork | music video for "Take Me to Church" ⓘ |
| occupation | music video director ⓘ |
| performer | Hozier ⓘ |
| workedOn |
"Take Me to Church" by Hozier
ⓘ
linked to:
Take Me to Church
|
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: Conal Thomson Description of subject: Conal Thomson is a music video director best known for his work on the acclaimed video for Hozier’s song "Take Me to Church."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Conal Thomson