Tom Drake
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Tom Drake was an American film and television actor best known for his role as "The Boy Next Door" opposite Judy Garland in the classic 1944 musical Meet Me in St. Louis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom Drake canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1017483 — 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 Drake Context triple: [Meet Me in St. Louis, castMember, Tom Drake]
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A.
Aaron Horvath
Aaron Horvath is an American animator, writer, and director best known for co-creating and directing the animated series "Teen Titans Go!" and co-directing "The Super Mario Bros. Movie."
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B.
Brad Grey
Brad Grey was an American television and film producer who served as chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures, overseeing the studio during a major period of commercial and critical success.
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C.
Elias Pearce
Elias Pearce was the mountaineer credited with making the first recorded ascent of Mount Shasta in California.
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D.
Chris DeWolfe
Chris DeWolfe is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-creator and former CEO of the pioneering social networking site MySpace.
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E.
Owen Harper
Owen Harper is a central character in the British sci-fi series "Torchwood," serving as the team's acerbic and brilliant medical officer.
- 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 Drake Target entity description: Tom Drake was an American film and television actor best known for his role as "The Boy Next Door" opposite Judy Garland in the classic 1944 musical Meet Me in St. Louis.
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A.
Aaron Horvath
Aaron Horvath is an American animator, writer, and director best known for co-creating and directing the animated series "Teen Titans Go!" and co-directing "The Super Mario Bros. Movie."
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B.
Brad Grey
Brad Grey was an American television and film producer who served as chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures, overseeing the studio during a major period of commercial and critical success.
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C.
Elias Pearce
Elias Pearce was the mountaineer credited with making the first recorded ascent of Mount Shasta in California.
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D.
Chris DeWolfe
Chris DeWolfe is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-creator and former CEO of the pioneering social networking site MySpace.
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E.
Owen Harper
Owen Harper is a central character in the British sci-fi series "Torchwood," serving as the team's acerbic and brilliant medical officer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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 Drake Description of subject: Tom Drake was an American film and television actor best known for his role as "The Boy Next Door" opposite Judy Garland in the classic 1944 musical Meet Me in St. Louis.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.