Tom Mathews
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Tom Mathews is an American writer and journalist known for co-authoring civil rights leader Roy Wilkins’s autobiography, "Standing Fast."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom Mathews canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5164703 — 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 Mathews Context triple: [Standing Fast: The Autobiography of Roy Wilkins, coAuthor, Tom Mathews]
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A.
William Mathews
William Mathews was a 19th-century British mountaineer notable for pioneering ascents in the Alps.
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B.
Richard Mathews
Richard Mathews is an actor known for playing the Time Lord Rassilon in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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C.
Peter Mathieson
Peter Mathieson is a British nephrologist and academic leader who has served as principal and vice-chancellor of major universities, including the University of Edinburgh and the University of Hong Kong.
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Don Matthews
Don Matthews was a highly successful and influential Canadian Football League head coach, renowned for leading multiple teams to Grey Cup championships.
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E.
Martin Boddey
Martin Boddey was a British character actor known for his frequent supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television, often portraying authority figures such as policemen and officials.
- 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 Mathews Target entity description: Tom Mathews is an American writer and journalist known for co-authoring civil rights leader Roy Wilkins’s autobiography, "Standing Fast."
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A.
William Mathews
William Mathews was a 19th-century British mountaineer notable for pioneering ascents in the Alps.
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B.
Richard Mathews
Richard Mathews is an actor known for playing the Time Lord Rassilon in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
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C.
Peter Mathieson
Peter Mathieson is a British nephrologist and academic leader who has served as principal and vice-chancellor of major universities, including the University of Edinburgh and the University of Hong Kong.
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D.
Don Matthews
Don Matthews was a highly successful and influential Canadian Football League head coach, renowned for leading multiple teams to Grey Cup championships.
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E.
Martin Boddey
Martin Boddey was a British character actor known for his frequent supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television, often portraying authority figures such as policemen and officials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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civil rights leader ⓘ journalist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| author | Roy Wilkins ⓘ |
| coAuthor | Tom Mathews ⓘ |
| coAuthorOf | Standing Fast ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre | non-fiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | Standing Fast ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil rights activist
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journalist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
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 Mathews Description of subject: Tom Mathews is an American writer and journalist known for co-authoring civil rights leader Roy Wilkins’s autobiography, "Standing Fast."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Tom Mathews