Tom McGowan
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Tom McGowan was a screenwriter and story artist best known for co-writing the story for Disney’s animated film "The Aristocats."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom McGowan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13099259 — 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: Tom McGowan Context triple: [The Aristocats, storyBy, Tom McGowan]
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A.
Terry McAulay
Terry McAulay is a former National Football League official who served as a referee in multiple Super Bowls and later became a rules analyst for television broadcasts.
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B.
Tom Keogh
Tom Keogh was a noted costume designer best known for his work in mid-20th-century theatre and film productions.
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C.
Bill McGowan
Bill McGowan was a prominent American Major League Baseball umpire renowned for his long career, authoritative style, and induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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D.
Jack McGowan
Jack McGowan was a screenwriter known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the 1939 musical "Babes in Arms."
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E.
Tom McGrath
Tom McGrath is an American animator, voice actor, and film director best known for co-creating and directing the Madagascar film series and directing the animated feature Megamind.
- 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: Tom McGowan Target entity description: Tom McGowan was a screenwriter and story artist best known for co-writing the story for Disney’s animated film "The Aristocats."
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A.
Terry McAulay
Terry McAulay is a former National Football League official who served as a referee in multiple Super Bowls and later became a rules analyst for television broadcasts.
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B.
Tom Keogh
Tom Keogh was a noted costume designer best known for his work in mid-20th-century theatre and film productions.
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C.
Bill McGowan
Bill McGowan was a prominent American Major League Baseball umpire renowned for his long career, authoritative style, and induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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D.
Jack McGowan
Jack McGowan was a screenwriter known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the 1939 musical "Babes in Arms."
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E.
Tom McGrath
Tom McGrath is an American animator, voice actor, and film director best known for co-creating and directing the Madagascar film series and directing the animated feature Megamind.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
animated film
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person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ story artist ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| countryOfWork |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| employer | Walt Disney Productions ⓘ |
| genre | animated musical comedy film ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-writing the story for Disney’s animated film "The Aristocats" ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Aristocats ⓘ |
| occupation |
screenwriter
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story artist ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer | Walt Disney Productions ⓘ |
| workedOn | The Aristocats ⓘ |
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: Tom McGowan Description of subject: Tom McGowan was a screenwriter and story artist best known for co-writing the story for Disney’s animated film "The Aristocats."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.