Tompkins
E472360
Tompkins is a surname most notably associated with Daniel D. Tompkins, the fourth governor of New York and seventh vice president of the United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tompkins canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4810361 — 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: Tompkins Context triple: [Daniel D. Tompkins, familyName, Tompkins]
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A.
Dunwoodie
Dunwoodie is the commonly used name for St. Joseph’s Seminary, a major Roman Catholic seminary in Yonkers, New York.
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B.
Schodack, New York
Schodack, New York is a predominantly rural town in eastern New York State known for its residential communities, farmland, and location along the Hudson River southeast of Albany.
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C.
Tuckahoe, New York
Tuckahoe, New York is a small suburban village in southeastern New York known for its residential neighborhoods and proximity to New York City.
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D.
Cortlandt, New York
Cortlandt, New York is a suburban town in northern Westchester County along the Hudson River, known for its residential communities, parks, and proximity to New York City.
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E.
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York is a small hamlet along the Hudson River best known as the home of Bard College.
- 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: Tompkins Target entity description: Tompkins is a surname most notably associated with Daniel D. Tompkins, the fourth governor of New York and seventh vice president of the United States.
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A.
Dunwoodie
Dunwoodie is the commonly used name for St. Joseph’s Seminary, a major Roman Catholic seminary in Yonkers, New York.
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B.
Schodack, New York
Schodack, New York is a predominantly rural town in eastern New York State known for its residential communities, farmland, and location along the Hudson River southeast of Albany.
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C.
Tuckahoe, New York
Tuckahoe, New York is a small suburban village in southeastern New York known for its residential neighborhoods and proximity to New York City.
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D.
Cortlandt, New York
Cortlandt, New York is a suburban town in northern Westchester County along the Hudson River, known for its residential communities, parks, and proximity to New York City.
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E.
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York is a small hamlet along the Hudson River best known as the home of Bard College.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| derivedFrom |
Tomkin
ⓘ
linked to:
Tomlins
|
| familyName |
Tomkins
ⓘ
Tompkins ⓘ |
| givenName | Daniel ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Calvin Tomkins
ⓘ
Daniel D. Tompkins ⓘ James Tompkins ⓘ Minthorne Tompkins ⓘ Paul Tompkins ⓘ
linked to:
Paul F. Tompkins
Sally Tompkins ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic-Republican Party ⓘ |
| middleName | D. ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
art critic ⓘ author ⓘ comedian ⓘ footballer ⓘ nurse ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| ordinalInOffice |
4th Governor of New York
ⓘ
7th Vice President of the United States ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of New York
ⓘ
Vice President of the United States ⓘ |
| stateRepresented | New York ⓘ |
| variantOf | Tomkins ⓘ |
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: Tompkins Description of subject: Tompkins is a surname most notably associated with Daniel D. Tompkins, the fourth governor of New York and seventh vice president of the United States.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.