Tom Paley
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Tom Paley was an American folk musician and guitarist best known as a founding member of the influential old-time string band The New Lost City Ramblers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Paley canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4452366 — 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 Paley Context triple: [The New Lost City Ramblers, member, Tom Paley]
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A.
Andrew Pawley
Andrew Pawley was a prominent linguist known for his influential work on Oceanic and Papuan languages, including the Northwest Solomonic group.
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B.
Jeffrey Paley
Jeffrey Paley is the son of longtime CBS chairman William S. Paley and a member of the prominent Paley media family.
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C.
Jonathan Peck
Jonathan Peck was one of the sons of acclaimed American actor Gregory Peck.
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D.
Tom Helmore
Tom Helmore was a British actor best known for his supporting role as Gavin Elster in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller "Vertigo."
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E.
Jon Plowman
Jon Plowman is a British television producer best known for his influential work on BBC comedies, including series such as Absolutely Fabulous and The Office.
- 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 Paley Target entity description: Tom Paley was an American folk musician and guitarist best known as a founding member of the influential old-time string band The New Lost City Ramblers.
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A.
Andrew Pawley
Andrew Pawley was a prominent linguist known for his influential work on Oceanic and Papuan languages, including the Northwest Solomonic group.
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B.
Jeffrey Paley
Jeffrey Paley is the son of longtime CBS chairman William S. Paley and a member of the prominent Paley media family.
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C.
Jonathan Peck
Jonathan Peck was one of the sons of acclaimed American actor Gregory Peck.
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D.
Tom Helmore
Tom Helmore was a British actor best known for his supporting role as Gavin Elster in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller "Vertigo."
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E.
Jon Plowman
Jon Plowman is a British television producer best known for his influential work on BBC comedies, including series such as Absolutely Fabulous and The Office.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
folk musician
ⓘ
guitarist ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2017 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950 ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
The New Lost City Ramblers
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tom Paley's Old-Time Moonshine Revue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Allan Thomas Paley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | myeloma ⓘ |
| child | Ben Paley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounded | The New Lost City Ramblers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1928-03-19 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2017-09-30 ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | American folk music ⓘ |
| genre |
country blues
ⓘ
folk music ⓘ old-time music ⓘ |
| influenced | folk revival musicians ⓘ |
| instrument |
banjo
ⓘ
fiddle ⓘ guitar ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | The New Lost City Ramblers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movedTo | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Tom Paley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
Tom Paley & Peggy Seeger: Folksongs from the Southern Appalachian Mountains
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tom Paley, John Cohen, Mike Seeger: The New Lost City Ramblers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | founding member of The New Lost City Ramblers ⓘ |
| notableWork | recordings with The New Lost City Ramblers ⓘ |
| occupation |
banjoist
ⓘ
guitarist ⓘ musician ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| performedWith |
John Cohen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lead Belly NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Seeger NERFINISHED ⓘ Peggy Seeger NERFINISHED ⓘ Woody Guthrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Brighton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Folkways Records
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Prestige Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Topic Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
London, England
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surface form:
London
|
| spouse | Claudia Paley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Paley Description of subject: Tom Paley was an American folk musician and guitarist best known as a founding member of the influential old-time string band The New Lost City Ramblers.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.