Thomas Maier
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Thomas Maier is an American author and journalist best known for writing the biography of sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson that inspired the television series "Masters of Sex."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Maier canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4560168 — 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: Thomas Maier Context triple: [Masters of Sex, basedOnAuthor, Thomas Maier]
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A.
Simon Kunz
Simon Kunz is a British actor known for his character roles in film, television, and theatre, including appearances in productions such as "The Bible" miniseries and "Four Weddings and a Funeral."
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B.
Robert Hartmann
Robert Hartmann is a technology entrepreneur best known as a founder of the semiconductor company Altera.
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C.
Charles Fleischmann
Charles Fleischmann was a 19th-century entrepreneur and co-founder of the Fleischmann Yeast Company, which revolutionized commercial baking in the United States.
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D.
Marten Wassmann
Marten Wassmann is an architect known for his partnership role at the Dutch architecture firm Benthem Crouwel Architekten.
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E.
Joseph Klarwein
Joseph Klarwein was a prominent Israeli architect known for designing key public and governmental buildings during the early years of the State of Israel.
- 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: Thomas Maier Target entity description: Thomas Maier is an American author and journalist best known for writing the biography of sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson that inspired the television series "Masters of Sex."
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A.
Simon Kunz
Simon Kunz is a British actor known for his character roles in film, television, and theatre, including appearances in productions such as "The Bible" miniseries and "Four Weddings and a Funeral."
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B.
Robert Hartmann
Robert Hartmann is a technology entrepreneur best known as a founder of the semiconductor company Altera.
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C.
Charles Fleischmann
Charles Fleischmann was a 19th-century entrepreneur and co-founder of the Fleischmann Yeast Company, which revolutionized commercial baking in the United States.
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D.
Marten Wassmann
Marten Wassmann is an architect known for his partnership role at the Dutch architecture firm Benthem Crouwel Architekten.
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E.
Joseph Klarwein
Joseph Klarwein was a prominent Israeli architect known for designing key public and governmental buildings during the early years of the State of Israel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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journalist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Pulitzer Prize (team award, Newsday staff) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
NERFINISHED
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Fordham University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Newsday NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
biographical writing
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historical writing ⓘ investigative journalism ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
biography
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history ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasRole | executive producer ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.thomasmaierbooks.com/ ⓘ |
| inspiredWork | Masters of Sex (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
biography of William Masters and Virginia Johnson
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work on television adaptation of Masters of Sex ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dr. Spock: An American Life
NERFINISHED
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Mafia Spies: The Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK, and Castro NERFINISHED ⓘ Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love NERFINISHED ⓘ The Kennedys: America’s Emerald Kings NERFINISHED ⓘ When Lions Roar: The Churchills and the Kennedys NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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investigative reporter ⓘ journalist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| residence | Long Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
American history
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Catholicism ⓘ politics ⓘ sexuality ⓘ |
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: Thomas Maier Description of subject: Thomas Maier is an American author and journalist best known for writing the biography of sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson that inspired the television series "Masters of Sex."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.