Young Tom Cotton
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Young Tom Cotton is a hobbit of the Shire from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, known as one of the Cotton family of Bywater.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Young Tom Cotton canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11152011 — 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: Young Tom Cotton Context triple: [Rosie Cotton, sibling, Young Tom Cotton]
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A.
Tillman
Tillman is a surname most famously associated with Pat Tillman, the former NFL player who left his football career to enlist in the U.S. Army and was killed in Afghanistan.
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B.
Colin Allred
Colin Allred is an American Democratic politician and former NFL player who serves in the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas.
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C.
Aaron Elvis Mullen
Aaron Elvis Mullen is the son of U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr.
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D.
Robbie Kilgore
Robbie Kilgore is a music producer and keyboardist known for his work in soul and pop genres, including production on the project Soul 2.
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E.
Charles Payne
Charles Payne is an American financial journalist and television host best known for anchoring programs on Fox Business Network.
- 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: Young Tom Cotton Target entity description: Young Tom Cotton is a hobbit of the Shire from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, known as one of the Cotton family of Bywater.
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A.
Tillman
Tillman is a surname most famously associated with Pat Tillman, the former NFL player who left his football career to enlist in the U.S. Army and was killed in Afghanistan.
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B.
Colin Allred
Colin Allred is an American Democratic politician and former NFL player who serves in the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas.
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C.
Aaron Elvis Mullen
Aaron Elvis Mullen is the son of U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr.
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D.
Robbie Kilgore
Robbie Kilgore is a music producer and keyboardist known for his work in soul and pop genres, including production on the project Soul 2.
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E.
Charles Payne
Charles Payne is an American financial journalist and television host best known for anchoring programs on Fox Business Network.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Character in The Lord of the Rings
ⓘ
Fictional character ⓘ Hobbit ⓘ |
| alignment | Free Peoples of Middle-earth ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
The Lord of the Rings
ⓘ
The Return of the King ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Scouring of the Shire ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace |
Bywater, Westfarthing
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastfarthing
|
| country | The Shire ⓘ |
| createdBy | J. R. R. Tolkien ⓘ |
| culture |
Shire-hobbit
ⓘ
linked to:
Hobbits
|
| ethnicity | Hobbit of the Shire ⓘ |
| familyName | Cotton ⓘ |
| fictionalLanguageContext | Westron ⓘ |
| gender | Male ⓘ |
| homeLocation | Bywater ⓘ |
| livesDuringFictionalTime |
Late Third Age
ⓘ
linked to:
Third Age
|
| locatedInFictionalUniverse | Middle-earth ⓘ |
| memberOf | Cotton family ⓘ |
| name | Young Tom Cotton ⓘ |
| realm | The Shire ⓘ |
| relative |
Farmer Cotton
ⓘ
Rosie Cotton ⓘ Tom Cotton ⓘ Young Jolly Cotton ⓘ Young Nibs Cotton ⓘ
linked to:
Nibs Cotton
Young Nick Cotton ⓘ Young Robin Cotton ⓘ |
| residence | Bywater ⓘ |
| species | Hobbit ⓘ |
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: Young Tom Cotton Description of subject: Young Tom Cotton is a hobbit of the Shire from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, known as one of the Cotton family of Bywater.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.