Tommy
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Tommy is a landmark 1969 rock opera album by the British band The Who, telling the story of a "deaf, dumb, and blind" boy and widely regarded as one of the most influential concept albums in rock history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tommy canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4650004 — 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: Tommy Context triple: [The Who, notableWork, Tommy]
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A.
Tommy
Tommy is a masculine given name, often a diminutive of Thomas, used in various English-speaking countries.
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B.
Tommie
Tommie is the costumed mascot representing the University of St. Thomas in its athletic and school spirit events.
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C.
Tommy Hawk
Tommy Hawk is the anthropomorphic hawk mascot of the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks, known for entertaining fans with energetic antics at games and community events.
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Tommo
Tommo is a familiar diminutive nickname commonly used for people named Thomas, especially in British and Australian contexts.
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E.
Tommy Taylor
Tommy Taylor was an English footballer and prolific centre-forward for Manchester United and the England national team in the 1950s.
- 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: Tommy Target entity description: Tommy is a landmark 1969 rock opera album by the British band The Who, telling the story of a "deaf, dumb, and blind" boy and widely regarded as one of the most influential concept albums in rock history.
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A.
Tommy
Tommy is a masculine given name, often a diminutive of Thomas, used in various English-speaking countries.
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B.
Tommie
Tommie is the costumed mascot representing the University of St. Thomas in its athletic and school spirit events.
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C.
Tommy Hawk
Tommy Hawk is the anthropomorphic hawk mascot of the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks, known for entertaining fans with energetic antics at games and community events.
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D.
Tommo
Tommo is a familiar diminutive nickname commonly used for people named Thomas, especially in British and Australian contexts.
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E.
Tommy Taylor
Tommy Taylor was an English footballer and prolific centre-forward for Manchester United and the England national team in the 1950s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
concept album
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rock opera album ⓘ studio album ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
Tommy (1975 film)
NERFINISHED
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Tommy (stage musical) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artist | The Who NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Grammy Hall of Fame induction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Pete Townshend NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contributor |
John Entwistle
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Keith Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ Roger Daltrey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticalReception | widely acclaimed ⓘ |
| format | double album ⓘ |
| genre |
art rock
ⓘ
hard rock ⓘ psychedelic rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasPart |
1921
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Amazing Journey NERFINISHED ⓘ Christmas NERFINISHED ⓘ Cousin Kevin NERFINISHED ⓘ Do You Think It’s Alright? NERFINISHED ⓘ Eyesight to the Blind NERFINISHED ⓘ Fiddle About NERFINISHED ⓘ Go to the Mirror! NERFINISHED ⓘ I’m Free NERFINISHED ⓘ Miracle Cure ⓘ Overture NERFINISHED ⓘ Pinball Wizard NERFINISHED ⓘ Sally Simpson NERFINISHED ⓘ Sensation ⓘ Smash the Mirror NERFINISHED ⓘ Sparks NERFINISHED ⓘ The Acid Queen NERFINISHED ⓘ There’s a Doctor ⓘ Tommy Can You Hear Me? NERFINISHED ⓘ Tommy’s Holiday Camp NERFINISHED ⓘ Underture NERFINISHED ⓘ Welcome ⓘ We’re Not Gonna Take It NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of rock opera
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subsequent concept albums ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Pete Townshend NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme | story of a deaf dumb and blind boy ⓘ |
| originalMedium | vinyl record ⓘ |
| performer | The Who NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionInDiscography | fourth studio album by The Who ⓘ |
| producer | Kit Lambert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingPeriod |
1968-09
ⓘ
1969-03 ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Decca Records
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Polydor Records ⓘ Track Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1969-05-23 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Tommy Description of subject: Tommy is a landmark 1969 rock opera album by the British band The Who, telling the story of a "deaf, dumb, and blind" boy and widely regarded as one of the most influential concept albums in rock history.
Referenced by (13)
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