Inspector Thomas Mathew
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Inspector Thomas Mathew is a police officer character in Arundhati Roy’s novel "The God of Small Things," involved in the investigation that shapes the fate of Rahel and her family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Inspector Thomas Mathew canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9619479 — 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: Inspector Thomas Mathew Context triple: [Rahel, linkedToCharacter, Inspector Thomas Mathew]
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A.
Inspector Gregson
Inspector Gregson is a Scotland Yard detective in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, often portrayed as competent but outshone by Holmes’s superior deductive abilities.
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B.
Inspector Daniel Clay
Inspector Daniel Clay is a fictional police inspector character from the cult 1959 science fiction horror film "Plan 9 from Outer Space."
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C.
Inspector Chester Campbell
Inspector Chester Campbell is a ruthless and morally rigid Belfast police inspector who becomes one of the primary antagonists in the British crime drama series *Peaky Blinders*.
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D.
Inspector Frank Bumstead
Inspector Frank Bumstead is a weary, morally driven police detective in the neo-noir science fiction film "Dark City," who gradually uncovers the disturbing truth behind the city's reality.
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E.
Detective Sergeant David Gabriel
Detective Sergeant David Gabriel is a fictional police detective from the TV series "The Closer," known as a loyal and principled member of Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson’s Major Crimes squad.
- 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: Inspector Thomas Mathew Target entity description: Inspector Thomas Mathew is a police officer character in Arundhati Roy’s novel "The God of Small Things," involved in the investigation that shapes the fate of Rahel and her family.
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A.
Inspector Gregson
Inspector Gregson is a Scotland Yard detective in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, often portrayed as competent but outshone by Holmes’s superior deductive abilities.
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B.
Inspector Daniel Clay
Inspector Daniel Clay is a fictional police inspector character from the cult 1959 science fiction horror film "Plan 9 from Outer Space."
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C.
Inspector Chester Campbell
Inspector Chester Campbell is a ruthless and morally rigid Belfast police inspector who becomes one of the primary antagonists in the British crime drama series *Peaky Blinders*.
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D.
Inspector Frank Bumstead
Inspector Frank Bumstead is a weary, morally driven police detective in the neo-noir science fiction film "Dark City," who gradually uncovers the disturbing truth behind the city's reality.
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E.
Detective Sergeant David Gabriel
Detective Sergeant David Gabriel is a fictional police detective from the TV series "The Closer," known as a loyal and principled member of Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson’s Major Crimes squad.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ police inspector ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The God of Small Things ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Ammu
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Estha ⓘ Rahel ⓘ Velutha ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting | India ⓘ |
| createdBy | Arundhati Roy ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | postcolonial novel ⓘ |
| involvedIn |
investigation affecting Rahel
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investigation affecting Rahel’s family ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | catalyst for key plot developments ⓘ |
| occupation | police officer ⓘ |
| roleInWork | investigator ⓘ |
| workAwardReceived |
Booker Prize (for The God of Small Things)
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linked to:
Booker Prize
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| workPublishedInYear | 1997 ⓘ |
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: Inspector Thomas Mathew Description of subject: Inspector Thomas Mathew is a police officer character in Arundhati Roy’s novel "The God of Small Things," involved in the investigation that shapes the fate of Rahel and her family.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.