C. Thomas Howell
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C. Thomas Howell is an American actor best known for his breakout role in "The Outsiders" and a long career in film and television spanning several decades.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| C. Thomas Howell canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6019039 — 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: C. Thomas Howell Context triple: [Southland, mainCastMember, C. Thomas Howell]
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A.
Paul Dooley
Paul Dooley is an American character actor, writer, and comedian known for his roles in films such as "Breaking Away," "Sixteen Candles," and numerous television series.
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B.
Charlie Thomas
Charlie Thomas was an American R&B singer best known as a longtime member and lead vocalist of the legendary vocal group The Drifters.
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C.
Roger E. Mosley
Roger E. Mosley was an American actor best known for his role as helicopter pilot Theodore "T.C." Calvin on the television series "Magnum, P.I."
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D.
Jack B. Sowards
Jack B. Sowards was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
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E.
Jonathan Thomas
Jonathan Thomas is best known as the longtime husband of acclaimed American playwright Edward Albee.
- 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: C. Thomas Howell Target entity description: C. Thomas Howell is an American actor best known for his breakout role in "The Outsiders" and a long career in film and television spanning several decades.
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A.
Paul Dooley
Paul Dooley is an American character actor, writer, and comedian known for his roles in films such as "Breaking Away," "Sixteen Candles," and numerous television series.
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B.
Charlie Thomas
Charlie Thomas was an American R&B singer best known as a longtime member and lead vocalist of the legendary vocal group The Drifters.
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C.
Roger E. Mosley
Roger E. Mosley was an American actor best known for his role as helicopter pilot Theodore "T.C." Calvin on the television series "Magnum, P.I."
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D.
Jack B. Sowards
Jack B. Sowards was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
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E.
Jonathan Thomas
Jonathan Thomas is best known as the longtime husband of acclaimed American playwright Edward Albee.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| birthName | Christopher Thomas Howell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1966-12-07 ⓘ |
| familyName | Howell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
action film
ⓘ
drama ⓘ thriller film ⓘ |
| givenName | Christopher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | 3 (children) ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying Ponyboy Curtis in The Outsiders ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | C. Thomas Howell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Animal Kingdom (TV series)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Criminal Minds NERFINISHED ⓘ E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial NERFINISHED ⓘ Gettysburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Grandview, U.S.A. NERFINISHED ⓘ Red Dawn NERFINISHED ⓘ SEAL Team (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Soul Man NERFINISHED ⓘ Southland NERFINISHED ⓘ The Amazing Spider-Man NERFINISHED ⓘ The Hitcher NERFINISHED ⓘ The Outsiders NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| parent | Christopher N. Howell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Rae Dawn Chong
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sylvie Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Animal Kingdom (TV series)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Criminal Minds NERFINISHED ⓘ Gettysburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Red Dawn NERFINISHED ⓘ SEAL Team (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Soul Man NERFINISHED ⓘ Southland NERFINISHED ⓘ The Amazing Spider-Man NERFINISHED ⓘ The Hitcher NERFINISHED ⓘ The Outsiders NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1970s–present ⓘ |
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: C. Thomas Howell Description of subject: C. Thomas Howell is an American actor best known for his breakout role in "The Outsiders" and a long career in film and television spanning several decades.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.