Tom Sharp
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Tom Sharp is a British satirical novelist and author best known for his comic novels such as the "Wilt" series.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Sharp canonical | 1 |
| Tom Sharpe bibliography | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2501657 — 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 Sharp Context triple: [Sharp, hasNotableBearer, Tom Sharp]
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A.
Ben Aaronovitch
Ben Aaronovitch is a British author and screenwriter best known for his urban fantasy "Rivers of London" series, which blends police procedural elements with magic in a contemporary London setting.
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B.
David Hartnett
David Hartnett is a British civil servant best known for serving as the Permanent Secretary for Tax at HM Revenue and Customs, where he was the UK's top tax official.
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C.
David Arnold
David Arnold is a British film composer best known for his work on several James Bond soundtracks and other major Hollywood films.
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D.
C. K. Robinson
C. K. Robinson was a 19th-century British architect best known for designing St. Paul’s Cathedral in Kolkata, a prominent example of Indo-Gothic architecture in India.
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E.
Dan Goodman
Dan Goodman is a central character in the rock musical "Next to Normal," portrayed as a devoted husband and father struggling to hold his family together amid his wife's severe mental illness.
- 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 Sharp Target entity description: Tom Sharp is a British satirical novelist and author best known for his comic novels such as the "Wilt" series.
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A.
Ben Aaronovitch
Ben Aaronovitch is a British author and screenwriter best known for his urban fantasy "Rivers of London" series, which blends police procedural elements with magic in a contemporary London setting.
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B.
David Hartnett
David Hartnett is a British civil servant best known for serving as the Permanent Secretary for Tax at HM Revenue and Customs, where he was the UK's top tax official.
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C.
David Arnold
David Arnold is a British film composer best known for his work on several James Bond soundtracks and other major Hollywood films.
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D.
C. K. Robinson
C. K. Robinson was a 19th-century British architect best known for designing St. Paul’s Cathedral in Kolkata, a prominent example of Indo-Gothic architecture in India.
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E.
Dan Goodman
Dan Goodman is a central character in the rock musical "Next to Normal," portrayed as a devoted husband and father struggling to hold his family together amid his wife's severe mental illness.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comic novelist
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human ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novel series ⓘ novelist ⓘ satirist ⓘ |
| author | Tom Sharpe ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Spain ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1928-03-30 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2013-06-06 ⓘ |
| familyName | Sharpe ⓘ |
| genre |
comic novel
ⓘ
satire ⓘ |
| givenName | Tom ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Tom Sharpe ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ancestral Vices
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Blott on the Landscape ⓘ Grantchester Grind ⓘ Indecent Exposure ⓘ Porterhouse Blue ⓘ Riotous Assembly ⓘ The Great Pursuit ⓘ The Gropes ⓘ The Throwback ⓘ The Wilt series ⓘ Vintage Stuff ⓘ Wilt ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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novelist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
London
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linked to:
London, England
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| placeOfDeath | Llafranc ⓘ |
| series | Wilt series ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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 Sharp Description of subject: Tom Sharp is a British satirical novelist and author best known for his comic novels such as the "Wilt" series.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tom Sharp