Nicholas Tomalin
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Nicholas Tomalin was a British journalist and war correspondent known for his vivid reporting and for being killed while covering the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nicholas Tomalin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10466925 — 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: Nicholas Tomalin Context triple: [Claire Tomalin, spouse, Nicholas Tomalin]
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A.
Martin Kemp
Martin Kemp is an English musician and actor best known as the bassist of the new wave band Spandau Ballet and for his role as Steve Owen in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
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B.
Edward Hall
Edward Hall was a 16th-century English lawyer, historian, and chronicler best known for his influential Tudor-era chronicle "The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke."
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C.
Richard Holmes
Richard Holmes is a film producer known for his work on British genre and independent films, including the horror movie "The Ritual."
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D.
Charles Saumarez Smith
Charles Saumarez Smith is a British art historian and museum director known for leading major cultural institutions in the United Kingdom.
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E.
Neil MacGregor
Neil MacGregor is a British art historian and museum director best known for his influential leadership of major cultural institutions and his work presenting world history through objects.
- 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: Nicholas Tomalin Target entity description: Nicholas Tomalin was a British journalist and war correspondent known for his vivid reporting and for being killed while covering the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
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A.
Martin Kemp
Martin Kemp is an English musician and actor best known as the bassist of the new wave band Spandau Ballet and for his role as Steve Owen in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
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B.
Edward Hall
Edward Hall was a 16th-century English lawyer, historian, and chronicler best known for his influential Tudor-era chronicle "The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancastre and Yorke."
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C.
Richard Holmes
Richard Holmes is a film producer known for his work on British genre and independent films, including the horror movie "The Ritual."
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D.
Charles Saumarez Smith
Charles Saumarez Smith is a British art historian and museum director known for leading major cultural institutions in the United Kingdom.
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E.
Neil MacGregor
Neil MacGregor is a British art historian and museum director best known for his influential leadership of major cultural institutions and his work presenting world history through objects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
journalist ⓘ |
| burialPlace | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | killed in action ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1931 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1973 ⓘ |
| deathDuring | coverage of the Arab–Israeli conflict ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Magdalene College, Cambridge
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Winchester College ⓘ |
| employer | The Sunday Times ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
journalism
ⓘ
war reporting ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasChild | five children ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Nicholas Shakespeare (nephew)
ⓘ
linked to:
Nicholas Shakespeare
|
| knownForQuote | “The only qualities essential for real success in journalism are ratlike cunning, a plausible manner and a little literary ability.” ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | killed while reporting ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableEvent | death on assignment in 1973 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
coverage of the Yom Kippur War
ⓘ
vivid war reporting ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
ⓘ
war correspondent ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Yom Kippur War (as correspondent)
ⓘ
linked to:
Yom Kippur War
|
| placeOfDeath | Golan Heights ⓘ |
| spouse | Claire Tomalin ⓘ |
| workedFor | British newspapers ⓘ |
| wrote |
magazine features
ⓘ
newspaper articles ⓘ |
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: Nicholas Tomalin Description of subject: Nicholas Tomalin was a British journalist and war correspondent known for his vivid reporting and for being killed while covering the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.