Silken Thomas
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Silken Thomas was an Irish nobleman best known for leading a major 1534 rebellion against English rule in Ireland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Silken Thomas canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3899542 — 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: Silken Thomas Context triple: [Earl of Kildare, associatedPerson, Silken Thomas]
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A.
Sandy Williams
Sandy Williams is the naive yet courageous small-town college student Laura Dern portrays in David Lynch’s neo-noir film "Blue Velvet."
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B.
Eliza Thomas
Eliza Thomas was the wife of 19th-century American painter George Caleb Bingham, known for her role in his personal life during his early career.
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C.
Charlie Thomas
Charlie Thomas was an American R&B singer best known as a longtime member and lead vocalist of the legendary vocal group The Drifters.
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D.
Tony Thomas
Tony Thomas is an American television and film producer best known for co-founding Witt/Thomas Productions and producing popular sitcoms such as "The Golden Girls."
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E.
Diane Thomas
Diane Thomas was an American screenwriter best known for penning the hit 1984 adventure-romance film "Romancing the Stone."
- 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: Silken Thomas Target entity description: Silken Thomas was an Irish nobleman best known for leading a major 1534 rebellion against English rule in Ireland.
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A.
Sandy Williams
Sandy Williams is the naive yet courageous small-town college student Laura Dern portrays in David Lynch’s neo-noir film "Blue Velvet."
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B.
Eliza Thomas
Eliza Thomas was the wife of 19th-century American painter George Caleb Bingham, known for her role in his personal life during his early career.
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C.
Charlie Thomas
Charlie Thomas was an American R&B singer best known as a longtime member and lead vocalist of the legendary vocal group The Drifters.
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D.
Tony Thomas
Tony Thomas is an American television and film producer best known for co-founding Witt/Thomas Productions and producing popular sitcoms such as "The Golden Girls."
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E.
Diane Thomas
Diane Thomas was an American screenwriter best known for penning the hit 1984 adventure-romance film "Romancing the Stone."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Silken Thomas Description of subject: Silken Thomas was an Irish nobleman best known for leading a major 1534 rebellion against English rule in Ireland.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.