Thomas Shaw
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Thomas Shaw was the father of Mona Best, who was known as the mother of Pete Best, the original drummer for the Beatles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Shaw canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19200508 — 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: Thomas Shaw Context triple: [Mona Best, father, Thomas Shaw]
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A.
Thomas Shaw
Thomas Shaw was a British Labour politician who served as Secretary of State for War in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
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B.
Joseph Malloch
Joseph Malloch is a music producer best known for his work on the 1998 psychological horror film "Unsane."
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C.
William Millar
William Millar, better known by his stage name Stephen Boyd, was a Northern Irish-born actor famed for his role as Messala in the 1959 epic film "Ben-Hur."
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D.
James Dawson
James Dawson was a 19th-century English industrialist and landowner associated with the construction of Wray Castle in the Lake District.
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E.
William Burnes
William Burnes was a Scottish farmer and the father of poet Robert Burns, best known for having the Burns Cottage built as the family home where Robert was born.
- 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 Shaw Target entity description: Thomas Shaw was the father of Mona Best, who was known as the mother of Pete Best, the original drummer for the Beatles.
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A.
Thomas Shaw
Thomas Shaw was a British Labour politician who served as Secretary of State for War in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
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B.
Joseph Malloch
Joseph Malloch is a music producer best known for his work on the 1998 psychological horror film "Unsane."
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C.
William Millar
William Millar, better known by his stage name Stephen Boyd, was a Northern Irish-born actor famed for his role as Messala in the 1959 epic film "Ben-Hur."
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D.
James Dawson
James Dawson was a 19th-century English industrialist and landowner associated with the construction of Wray Castle in the Lake District.
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E.
William Burnes
William Burnes was a Scottish farmer and the father of poet Robert Burns, best known for having the Burns Cottage built as the family home where Robert was born.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.