Thomas Richards
E901822
Thomas Richards was the husband of American film and stage actress Glenda Farrell.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thomas Richards canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10687342 — 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: Thomas Richards Context triple: [Glenda Farrell, spouse, Thomas Richards]
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A.
Thomas Richards
Thomas Richards was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the 1941 noir "The Maltese Falcon."
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B.
Edward Mills
Edward Mills was a British architect known for designing the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Headquarters in London.
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C.
Thomas Sampson
Thomas Sampson was a 16th-century English Puritan theologian and churchman known for his role in the early English Reformation and involvement with the Geneva Bible.
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D.
Thomas Parkhurst
Thomas Parkhurst was a 17th-century London bookseller and publisher known for issuing prominent Puritan and religious works.
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E.
James Mather
James Mather is a film director best known for co-directing the 2012 science fiction action movie "Lockout."
- 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: Thomas Richards Target entity description: Thomas Richards was the husband of American film and stage actress Glenda Farrell.
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A.
Thomas Richards
Thomas Richards was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the 1941 noir "The Maltese Falcon."
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B.
Edward Mills
Edward Mills was a British architect known for designing the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Headquarters in London.
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C.
Thomas Sampson
Thomas Sampson was a 16th-century English Puritan theologian and churchman known for his role in the early English Reformation and involvement with the Geneva Bible.
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D.
Thomas Parkhurst
Thomas Parkhurst was a 17th-century London bookseller and publisher known for issuing prominent Puritan and religious works.
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E.
James Mather
James Mather is a film director best known for co-directing the 2012 science fiction action movie "Lockout."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (5)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film actress
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human ⓘ stage actress ⓘ |
| spouse |
Glenda Farrell
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Thomas Richards ⓘ |
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: Thomas Richards Description of subject: Thomas Richards was the husband of American film and stage actress Glenda Farrell.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.