Tilghman
E427475
Tilghman is a masculine given name of English origin that has been borne by various notable American figures, including politicians and military officers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tilghman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4259878 — 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: Tilghman Context triple: [Tilghman Ashurst Howard, givenName, Tilghman]
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A.
Tilton
Tilton is a locality in the United Kingdom notable for lending its name to the territorial designation of the peerage title Baron Keynes of Tilton.
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B.
Ebersole
Ebersole is a surname most notably associated with American actress and singer Christine Ebersole.
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C.
Southworth
Southworth is a surname most notably associated with Lucinda Southworth, an American researcher and the wife of Google co-founder Larry Page.
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D.
Rilland
Rilland is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland, located on the island of Zuid-Beveland.
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E.
Finklea
Finklea is the birth surname of American actress and dancer Cyd Charisse, known for her roles in classic Hollywood musicals.
- 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: Tilghman Target entity description: Tilghman is a masculine given name of English origin that has been borne by various notable American figures, including politicians and military officers.
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A.
Tilton
Tilton is a locality in the United Kingdom notable for lending its name to the territorial designation of the peerage title Baron Keynes of Tilton.
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B.
Ebersole
Ebersole is a surname most notably associated with American actress and singer Christine Ebersole.
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C.
Southworth
Southworth is a surname most notably associated with Lucinda Southworth, an American researcher and the wife of Google co-founder Larry Page.
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D.
Rilland
Rilland is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland, located on the island of Zuid-Beveland.
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E.
Finklea
Finklea is the birth surname of American actress and dancer Cyd Charisse, known for her roles in classic Hollywood musicals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English given name
ⓘ
masculine given name ⓘ |
| etymologicalOrigin | English-language surname Tilghman ⓘ |
| gender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext | Anglophone world ⓘ |
| hasNameUsage | first name ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearerNationality | American ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearerOccupation |
military officer
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| isGivenNameFor | males ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| nameCategory | given name ⓘ |
| nameType | personal name ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| usageRegion |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
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: Tilghman Description of subject: Tilghman is a masculine given name of English origin that has been borne by various notable American figures, including politicians and military officers.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.