Hollomon
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Hollomon is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals in fields such as science, academia, and public service.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hollomon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13082020 — 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: Hollomon Context triple: [J. Herbert Hollomon, hasFamilyName, Hollomon]
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A.
Hurlburt
Hurlburt is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, the military, and academia.
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B.
Cullum
Cullum is a surname most notably associated with George Washington Cullum, a 19th-century American military engineer and superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point.
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C.
Alvan
Alvan is a masculine given name of English origin, notably borne by figures such as U.S. Army officer Alvan C. Gillem.
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D.
Dunford
Dunford is a surname most prominently associated with Joseph F. Dunford Jr., a retired United States Marine Corps general and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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E.
Sherman Pew
Sherman Pew is a central character in Carson McCullers' novel "Clock Without Hands," portrayed as a young, blind Black man whose complex relationships and experiences illuminate themes of race, identity, and moral conflict in the American South.
- 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: Hollomon Target entity description: Hollomon is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals in fields such as science, academia, and public service.
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A.
Hurlburt
Hurlburt is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, the military, and academia.
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B.
Cullum
Cullum is a surname most notably associated with George Washington Cullum, a 19th-century American military engineer and superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point.
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C.
Alvan
Alvan is a masculine given name of English origin, notably borne by figures such as U.S. Army officer Alvan C. Gillem.
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D.
Dunford
Dunford is a surname most prominently associated with Joseph F. Dunford Jr., a retired United States Marine Corps general and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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E.
Sherman Pew
Sherman Pew is a central character in Carson McCullers' novel "Clock Without Hands," portrayed as a young, blind Black man whose complex relationships and experiences illuminate themes of race, identity, and moral conflict in the American South.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
English-language surnames
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surnames of English origin ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
James H. Hollomon Jr.
ⓘ
Jesse Hollomon ⓘ John H. Hollomon Jr. ⓘ Melvin L. Hollomon ⓘ William A. Hollomon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | England ⓘ |
| usedAs | family name ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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: Hollomon Description of subject: Hollomon is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals in fields such as science, academia, and public service.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.