Thomas Robinson
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Thomas Robinson was the son of Irish astronomer and physicist John Thomas Romney Robinson.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thomas Robinson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4723523 — 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 Robinson Context triple: [John Thomas Romney Robinson, father, Thomas Robinson]
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A.
Charles Alverson
Charles Alverson was an American writer and editor best known for his work in speculative fiction and his collaborations with Terry Gilliam on film projects.
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B.
Matthew Richardson
Matthew Richardson is a former Australian rules footballer widely regarded as one of Richmond Football Club’s greatest forwards and a fan favourite in the AFL.
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C.
Phil Jordan
Phil Jordan is a musician best known as a former member of the American rock band No Doubt.
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D.
Brandon T. Jackson
Brandon T. Jackson is an American actor and comedian best known for his breakout role in the satirical action-comedy film "Tropic Thunder."
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E.
Ross Barnes
Ross Barnes was a 19th-century American baseball infielder renowned as one of the first great stars of professional baseball and a key figure in the early National League.
- 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 Robinson Target entity description: Thomas Robinson was the son of Irish astronomer and physicist John Thomas Romney Robinson.
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A.
Charles Alverson
Charles Alverson was an American writer and editor best known for his work in speculative fiction and his collaborations with Terry Gilliam on film projects.
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B.
Matthew Richardson
Matthew Richardson is a former Australian rules footballer widely regarded as one of Richmond Football Club’s greatest forwards and a fan favourite in the AFL.
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C.
Phil Jordan
Phil Jordan is a musician best known as a former member of the American rock band No Doubt.
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D.
Brandon T. Jackson
Brandon T. Jackson is an American actor and comedian best known for his breakout role in the satirical action-comedy film "Tropic Thunder."
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E.
Ross Barnes
Ross Barnes was a 19th-century American baseball infielder renowned as one of the first great stars of professional baseball and a key figure in the early National League.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (5)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ireland ⓘ |
| familyName | Robinson ⓘ |
| father | John Thomas Romney Robinson ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas ⓘ |
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 Robinson Description of subject: Thomas Robinson was the son of Irish astronomer and physicist John Thomas Romney Robinson.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.