Tom Sherbourne
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Tom Sherbourne is a haunted World War I veteran who becomes a lighthouse keeper on a remote Australian island and faces a wrenching moral dilemma at the heart of *The Light Between Oceans*.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom Sherbourne canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13657044 — 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 Sherbourne Context triple: [The Light Between Oceans, mainCharacter, Tom Sherbourne]
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A.
Sheridan Crane
Sheridan Crane is a central fictional character from the American soap opera "Passions," known for her tumultuous romantic storylines and ties to the wealthy Crane family.
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B.
David Devereaux
David Devereaux is a minor fictional character from the television sitcom "The Golden Girls," known primarily as the son of Blanche Devereaux.
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C.
Joe Ames
Joe Ames was a member of the popular mid-20th-century American singing quartet The Ames Brothers, known for their close-harmony pop and novelty songs.
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D.
Schuyler Fisk
Schuyler Fisk is an American actress and singer-songwriter known for her roles in films like "Orange County" and her work as a folk-pop musician.
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E.
Daniel Comstock
Daniel Comstock was an American scientist and engineer best known as a co-founder of Technicolor, a pioneering company in color motion picture technology.
- 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 Sherbourne Target entity description: Tom Sherbourne is a haunted World War I veteran who becomes a lighthouse keeper on a remote Australian island and faces a wrenching moral dilemma at the heart of *The Light Between Oceans*.
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A.
Sheridan Crane
Sheridan Crane is a central fictional character from the American soap opera "Passions," known for her tumultuous romantic storylines and ties to the wealthy Crane family.
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B.
David Devereaux
David Devereaux is a minor fictional character from the television sitcom "The Golden Girls," known primarily as the son of Blanche Devereaux.
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C.
Joe Ames
Joe Ames was a member of the popular mid-20th-century American singing quartet The Ames Brothers, known for their close-harmony pop and novelty songs.
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D.
Schuyler Fisk
Schuyler Fisk is an American actress and singer-songwriter known for her roles in films like "Orange County" and her work as a folk-pop musician.
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E.
Daniel Comstock
Daniel Comstock was an American scientist and engineer best known as a co-founder of Technicolor, a pioneering company in color motion picture technology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.