Tinker
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Tinker is a musical project/band known for featuring bassist and singer Melissa Auf der Maur before her rise to prominence with Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tinker canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17512839 — 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: Tinker Context triple: [Melissa Auf der Maur, associatedAct, Tinker]
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A.
Tinker
Tinker is a surname most notably associated with Joe Tinker, a Hall of Fame shortstop for the early 20th-century Chicago Cubs.
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B.
Tinker Town
Tinker Town is the gnomish engineering district within the dwarven city of Ironforge in the World of Warcraft universe, known for its gadgets, workshops, and tinkering inventors.
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C.
The Red Rider
"The Red Rider" is a 1934 American Western film serial featuring action-packed frontier adventure and starring Buck Jones.
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D.
The Cub
The Cub is a costumed tiger cub character that serves as one of Clemson University’s athletic mascots, often appearing alongside The Tiger at sporting events and campus activities.
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E.
Tiny Soderball
Tiny Soderball is a minor character in Willa Cather’s novel "My Ántonia," known as a practical, ambitious immigrant girl who rises from hired help to financial success during the Western frontier era.
- 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: Tinker Target entity description: Tinker is a musical project/band known for featuring bassist and singer Melissa Auf der Maur before her rise to prominence with Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins.
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A.
Tinker
Tinker is a surname most notably associated with Joe Tinker, a Hall of Fame shortstop for the early 20th-century Chicago Cubs.
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B.
Tinker Town
Tinker Town is the gnomish engineering district within the dwarven city of Ironforge in the World of Warcraft universe, known for its gadgets, workshops, and tinkering inventors.
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C.
The Red Rider
"The Red Rider" is a 1934 American Western film serial featuring action-packed frontier adventure and starring Buck Jones.
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D.
The Cub
The Cub is a costumed tiger cub character that serves as one of Clemson University’s athletic mascots, often appearing alongside The Tiger at sporting events and campus activities.
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E.
Tiny Soderball
Tiny Soderball is a minor character in Willa Cather’s novel "My Ántonia," known as a practical, ambitious immigrant girl who rises from hired help to financial success during the Western frontier era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.