Charles Sherwood Stratton
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Charles Sherwood Stratton, better known by his stage name General Tom Thumb, was a famous 19th-century dwarf performer and international celebrity promoted by showman P.T. Barnum.
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| Charles Sherwood Stratton canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19797080 — 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: Charles Sherwood Stratton Context triple: [General Tom Thumb, realName, Charles Sherwood Stratton]
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A.
Henry Dwight Stratton
Henry Dwight Stratton was a 19th-century American educator and entrepreneur who co-founded a pioneering chain of business colleges that helped popularize practical commercial education in the United States.
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B.
Garrett Breedlove
Garrett Breedlove is a charismatic, womanizing former astronaut portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the film "Terms of Endearment."
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C.
Charlie Farnsworth
Charlie Farnsworth is a paranoid, accusatory neighbor whose escalating fear and suspicion help drive the mob mentality and chaos in the classic Twilight Zone episode "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street."
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D.
Samuel Fleming
Samuel Fleming was an early settler and tavern owner in colonial New Jersey whose prominence in the area led to the town of Flemington being named in his honor.
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E.
Maxwell Emmett Buttram
Maxwell Emmett Buttram, better known as Pat Buttram, was an American character actor and comedian famed for his distinctive voice and roles in Westerns and the TV series "Green Acres."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Sherwood Stratton Target entity description: Charles Sherwood Stratton, better known by his stage name General Tom Thumb, was a famous 19th-century dwarf performer and international celebrity promoted by showman P.T. Barnum.
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A.
Henry Dwight Stratton
Henry Dwight Stratton was a 19th-century American educator and entrepreneur who co-founded a pioneering chain of business colleges that helped popularize practical commercial education in the United States.
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B.
Garrett Breedlove
Garrett Breedlove is a charismatic, womanizing former astronaut portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the film "Terms of Endearment."
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C.
Charlie Farnsworth
Charlie Farnsworth is a paranoid, accusatory neighbor whose escalating fear and suspicion help drive the mob mentality and chaos in the classic Twilight Zone episode "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street."
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D.
Samuel Fleming
Samuel Fleming was an early settler and tavern owner in colonial New Jersey whose prominence in the area led to the town of Flemington being named in his honor.
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E.
Maxwell Emmett Buttram
Maxwell Emmett Buttram, better known as Pat Buttram, was an American character actor and comedian famed for his distinctive voice and roles in Westerns and the TV series "Green Acres."
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.