Tom Dolby
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Tom Dolby is an American novelist and filmmaker known for works exploring themes of identity, privilege, and LGBTQ+ experience.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom Dolby canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T717093 — 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 Dolby Context triple: [Dagmar Dolby, hasChild, Tom Dolby]
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A.
Trevor Horn
Trevor Horn is a renowned English record producer, musician, and songwriter known for his influential work in shaping the sound of 1980s pop and new wave music.
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B.
Don Mischer
Don Mischer is an American television producer and director renowned for staging major live events and award shows, including multiple Academy Awards broadcasts.
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C.
Dave Stewart
Dave Stewart is a former Major League Baseball pitcher best known as a dominant ace for the Oakland Athletics during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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D.
Don Maynard
Don Maynard was a Hall of Fame American football wide receiver best known as Joe Namath’s primary deep threat and a key offensive star for the New York Jets during the 1960s.
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E.
David Byrne
David Byrne is a Scottish-American musician, singer, songwriter, and artist best known as the frontman and co-founder of the influential new wave band Talking Heads.
- 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 Dolby Target entity description: Tom Dolby is an American novelist and filmmaker known for works exploring themes of identity, privilege, and LGBTQ+ experience.
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A.
Trevor Horn
Trevor Horn is a renowned English record producer, musician, and songwriter known for his influential work in shaping the sound of 1980s pop and new wave music.
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B.
Don Mischer
Don Mischer is an American television producer and director renowned for staging major live events and award shows, including multiple Academy Awards broadcasts.
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C.
Dave Stewart
Dave Stewart is a former Major League Baseball pitcher best known as a dominant ace for the Oakland Athletics during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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D.
Don Maynard
Don Maynard was a Hall of Fame American football wide receiver best known as Joe Namath’s primary deep threat and a key offensive star for the New York Jets during the 1960s.
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E.
David Byrne
David Byrne is a Scottish-American musician, singer, songwriter, and artist best known as the frontman and co-founder of the influential new wave band Talking Heads.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 Dolby Description of subject: Tom Dolby is an American novelist and filmmaker known for works exploring themes of identity, privilege, and LGBTQ+ experience.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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The Atavist (film production company)
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The Atavist (film production company)
subject linked to:
The Atavist (film production company)