Tomie
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Tomie is a Japanese horror manga character created by Junji Ito, known as a beautiful, immortal girl who drives people to madness and murder through her supernatural influence.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tomie canonical | 1 |
| Tomie (1987 short story) | 1 |
| Tomie (manga) | 1 |
| Tomie film series | 1 |
| Tomie franchise | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6226223 — 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: Tomie Context triple: [Tomie Ohtake, givenName, Tomie]
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A.
Tebbe
Tebbe is a German surname that serves as the etymological root for the name Tibbets.
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B.
Tommo
Tommo is a familiar diminutive nickname commonly used for people named Thomas, especially in British and Australian contexts.
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C.
Tattered Tom
Tattered Tom is a 19th-century juvenile novel by Horatio Alger Jr. that follows a poor but determined newsboy striving for honesty and self-improvement amid urban hardship.
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D.
Tommy's Tale
Tommy's Tale is a semi-autobiographical novel by actor and writer Alan Cumming that explores themes of identity, relationships, and self-discovery.
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E.
T.O.M.
T.O.M. is the robotic host and mascot of Cartoon Network’s Toonami programming block, known for introducing shows and guiding viewers through the lineup in a futuristic spaceship setting.
- 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: Tomie Target entity description: Tomie is a Japanese horror manga character created by Junji Ito, known as a beautiful, immortal girl who drives people to madness and murder through her supernatural influence.
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A.
Tebbe
Tebbe is a German surname that serves as the etymological root for the name Tibbets.
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B.
Tommo
Tommo is a familiar diminutive nickname commonly used for people named Thomas, especially in British and Australian contexts.
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C.
Tattered Tom
Tattered Tom is a 19th-century juvenile novel by Horatio Alger Jr. that follows a poor but determined newsboy striving for honesty and self-improvement amid urban hardship.
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D.
Tommy's Tale
Tommy's Tale is a semi-autobiographical novel by actor and writer Alan Cumming that explores themes of identity, relationships, and self-discovery.
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E.
T.O.M.
T.O.M. is the robotic host and mascot of Cartoon Network’s Toonami programming block, known for introducing shows and guiding viewers through the lineup in a futuristic spaceship setting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
horror character ⓘ manga character ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
live-action film series
ⓘ
video release (V-cinema) films ⓘ |
| alignment | malevolent ⓘ |
| appearance | beautiful teenage girl ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Tomie (manga)
ⓘ
linked to:
Tomie
|
| canReproduceFrom |
blood
ⓘ
severed body parts ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| creator |
Junji Ito
ⓘ
linked to:
Itō Junji
|
| eyeColor | dark ⓘ |
| filmSeriesTitle |
Tomie film series
ⓘ
linked to:
Tomie
|
| firstAppearance |
Tomie (1987 short story)
ⓘ
linked to:
Tomie
|
| franchise |
Tomie franchise
ⓘ
linked to:
Tomie
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
horror
ⓘ
psychological horror ⓘ |
| hairColor | black ⓘ |
| hasType | yokai-inspired entity ⓘ |
| influenced | Japanese horror cinema ⓘ |
| killsByProxy | driving others to murder her ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Japanese ⓘ |
| medium | manga ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | Japanese ⓘ |
| notableAbility |
psychological manipulation
ⓘ
seduction ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
ability to multiply
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causes murder and violence ⓘ causes obsessive love ⓘ drives people to madness ⓘ immortality ⓘ regenerative ability ⓘ |
| notableTheme |
body horror
ⓘ
identity ⓘ jealousy ⓘ obsession ⓘ |
| partOf | Junji Ito bibliography ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
cruel
ⓘ
manipulative ⓘ narcissistic ⓘ |
| publicationMagazine | Monthly Halloween ⓘ |
| publisher |
Asahi Sonorama
ⓘ
Kadokawa Shoten ⓘ |
| settingOfStories | modern Japan ⓘ |
| species | supernatural entity ⓘ |
| targetAudience | seinen ⓘ |
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: Tomie Description of subject: Tomie is a Japanese horror manga character created by Junji Ito, known as a beautiful, immortal girl who drives people to madness and murder through her supernatural influence.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Tomie
linked to: Tomie