Tom Spaulding
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Tom Spaulding is the young boy protagonist of Ray Bradbury’s novel "Dandelion Wine," through whose summer experiences the story’s nostalgic and magical view of small-town life is revealed.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Spaulding canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4834063 — 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 Spaulding Context triple: [Dandelion Wine, mainCharacter, Tom Spaulding]
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A.
Carl Hubbell
Carl Hubbell was a Hall of Fame left-handed pitcher famed for his devastating screwball and dominance with the New York Giants during the 1930s.
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B.
Luke Appling
Luke Appling was a star shortstop for the Chicago White Sox and a Baseball Hall of Famer known for his exceptional hitting and on-base skills during the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Chuck Aule
Chuck Aule is a U.S. Marshal and the investigative partner to Teddy Daniels in the psychological thriller film "Shutter Island."
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D.
Billy Keller
Billy Keller is a former American professional basketball guard best known for his sharpshooting and key role on the Indiana Pacers’ championship teams in the American Basketball Association.
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E.
Bill Klem
Bill Klem was a pioneering Major League Baseball umpire, often called the "father of modern umpiring," known for his long career and influential role in shaping officiating standards.
- 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 Spaulding Target entity description: Tom Spaulding is the young boy protagonist of Ray Bradbury’s novel "Dandelion Wine," through whose summer experiences the story’s nostalgic and magical view of small-town life is revealed.
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A.
Carl Hubbell
Carl Hubbell was a Hall of Fame left-handed pitcher famed for his devastating screwball and dominance with the New York Giants during the 1930s.
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B.
Luke Appling
Luke Appling was a star shortstop for the Chicago White Sox and a Baseball Hall of Famer known for his exceptional hitting and on-base skills during the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Chuck Aule
Chuck Aule is a U.S. Marshal and the investigative partner to Teddy Daniels in the psychological thriller film "Shutter Island."
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D.
Billy Keller
Billy Keller is a former American professional basketball guard best known for his sharpshooting and key role on the Indiana Pacers’ championship teams in the American Basketball Association.
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E.
Bill Klem
Bill Klem was a pioneering Major League Baseball umpire, often called the "father of modern umpiring," known for his long career and influential role in shaping officiating standards.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| age | young boy ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Dandelion Wine ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
childhood
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magic realism ⓘ nostalgia ⓘ small-town life ⓘ |
| centralToPerspective |
magical view of everyday experiences
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nostalgic view of small-town life ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| creator | Ray Bradbury ⓘ |
| familyName | Spaulding ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Dandelion Wine ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 1957 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Douglas Spaulding ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| protagonistOf | Dandelion Wine ⓘ |
| relationshipToDouglasSpaulding | younger brother ⓘ |
| setting | Green Town, Illinois ⓘ |
| workGenre |
coming-of-age fiction
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fiction ⓘ semi-autobiographical novel ⓘ |
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 Spaulding Description of subject: Tom Spaulding is the young boy protagonist of Ray Bradbury’s novel "Dandelion Wine," through whose summer experiences the story’s nostalgic and magical view of small-town life is revealed.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.