Thomas Lee Kirk
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Thomas Lee Kirk, better known as Tommy Kirk, was an American actor best known for his roles in classic Walt Disney films of the 1950s and 1960s, including "Old Yeller" and "The Shaggy Dog."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Lee Kirk canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13498935 — 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 Lee Kirk Context triple: [Tommy Kirk, fullName, Thomas Lee Kirk]
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A.
Thomas Kirk
Thomas Kirk was a 19th-century Irish sculptor known for prominent public monuments and neoclassical works in Dublin.
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B.
Thomas Mitchell Morris
Thomas Mitchell "Old Tom" Morris was a pioneering 19th-century Scottish golfer and greenkeeper, widely regarded as one of the founding figures of modern golf and a multiple Open Championship winner.
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C.
Arthur Kirkland
Arthur Kirkland is the idealistic, embattled defense attorney portrayed by Al Pacino in the 1979 legal drama film "...And Justice for All."
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D.
Jack Kirkland
Jack Kirkland was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for co-writing the stage adaptation of Erskine Caldwell’s novel “Tobacco Road.”
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E.
Douglas Kirk
Douglas Kirk is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Kirk.
- 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 Lee Kirk Target entity description: Thomas Lee Kirk, better known as Tommy Kirk, was an American actor best known for his roles in classic Walt Disney films of the 1950s and 1960s, including "Old Yeller" and "The Shaggy Dog."
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A.
Thomas Kirk
Thomas Kirk was a 19th-century Irish sculptor known for prominent public monuments and neoclassical works in Dublin.
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B.
Thomas Mitchell Morris
Thomas Mitchell "Old Tom" Morris was a pioneering 19th-century Scottish golfer and greenkeeper, widely regarded as one of the founding figures of modern golf and a multiple Open Championship winner.
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C.
Arthur Kirkland
Arthur Kirkland is the idealistic, embattled defense attorney portrayed by Al Pacino in the 1979 legal drama film "...And Justice for All."
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D.
Jack Kirkland
Jack Kirkland was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for co-writing the stage adaptation of Erskine Caldwell’s novel “Tobacco Road.”
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E.
Douglas Kirk
Douglas Kirk is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Kirk.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
child actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1990s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950s ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart disease ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1941-12-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2021-09-28 ⓘ |
| employer | Walt Disney Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Kirk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
family film
ⓘ
teen film ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Joe Kirk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry |
film industry
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television industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | starring in Walt Disney films in the 1950s and 1960s ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| livedIn | California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Old Yeller
NERFINISHED
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Pajama Party NERFINISHED ⓘ Son of Flubber NERFINISHED ⓘ Swiss Family Robinson NERFINISHED ⓘ The Absent-Minded Professor NERFINISHED ⓘ The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini NERFINISHED ⓘ The Misadventures of Merlin Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ The Monkey's Uncle NERFINISHED ⓘ The Shaggy Dog NERFINISHED ⓘ Village of the Giants NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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businessperson ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Louisville, Kentucky, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedCharacter |
Biff Hawk in The Absent-Minded Professor
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Ernst Robinson in Swiss Family Robinson ⓘ Merlin Jones in The Misadventures of Merlin Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ Merlin Jones in The Monkey's Uncle NERFINISHED ⓘ Travis Coates in Old Yeller ⓘ Wilby Daniels in The Shaggy Dog NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| stageName | Tommy Kirk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Lee Kirk Description of subject: Thomas Lee Kirk, better known as Tommy Kirk, was an American actor best known for his roles in classic Walt Disney films of the 1950s and 1960s, including "Old Yeller" and "The Shaggy Dog."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.