Thomas Jerome Newton (character in Walter Tevis novel)
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Thomas Jerome Newton is the enigmatic alien protagonist of Walter Tevis’s science fiction novel "The Man Who Fell to Earth," who comes to Earth seeking a way to save his drought-stricken home planet.
All labels observed (1)
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| Thomas Jerome Newton (character in Walter Tevis novel) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18147587 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Jerome Newton (character in Walter Tevis novel) Context triple: [Thomas Jerome Newton, basedOn, Thomas Jerome Newton (character in Walter Tevis novel)]
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A.
James Boswell (character in The Fifth Estate)
James Boswell is a fictional character in the film "The Fifth Estate," which dramatizes the rise of WikiLeaks and its controversial founder Julian Assange.
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B.
Mason Verger in Hannibal
Mason Verger in *Hannibal* is a sadistic, disfigured heir to a meatpacking fortune who becomes one of Hannibal Lecter’s most vengeful and depraved adversaries.
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C.
Burt Gurney
Burt Gurney is a fictional 1950s Hollywood song-and-dance star and secretly communist actor portrayed by Channing Tatum in the Coen brothers’ film "Hail, Caesar!".
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D.
Alan Coddington
Alan Coddington was a British economist known for his contributions to macroeconomic theory and the analysis of Keynesian economics.
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E.
CIA officer Jacob Esterline
Jacob Esterline was a senior CIA officer best known for helping plan and oversee covert Cold War operations, including the Bay of Pigs invasion.
- 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 Jerome Newton (character in Walter Tevis novel) Target entity description: Thomas Jerome Newton is the enigmatic alien protagonist of Walter Tevis’s science fiction novel "The Man Who Fell to Earth," who comes to Earth seeking a way to save his drought-stricken home planet.
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A.
James Boswell (character in The Fifth Estate)
James Boswell is a fictional character in the film "The Fifth Estate," which dramatizes the rise of WikiLeaks and its controversial founder Julian Assange.
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B.
Mason Verger in Hannibal
Mason Verger in *Hannibal* is a sadistic, disfigured heir to a meatpacking fortune who becomes one of Hannibal Lecter’s most vengeful and depraved adversaries.
-
C.
Burt Gurney
Burt Gurney is a fictional 1950s Hollywood song-and-dance star and secretly communist actor portrayed by Channing Tatum in the Coen brothers’ film "Hail, Caesar!".
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D.
Alan Coddington
Alan Coddington was a British economist known for his contributions to macroeconomic theory and the analysis of Keynesian economics.
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E.
CIA officer Jacob Esterline
Jacob Esterline was a senior CIA officer best known for helping plan and oversee covert Cold War operations, including the Bay of Pigs invasion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man Who Fell to Earth