Tom Tomorrow
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Tom Tomorrow is the pen name of American cartoonist Dan Perkins, best known for his satirical comic strip "This Modern World."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Tomorrow canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6229991 — 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 Tomorrow Context triple: [Backspacer, coverArtBy, Tom Tomorrow]
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A.
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
"Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" is a 1963 Italian anthology comedy film directed by Vittorio De Sica, best known for starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni in three interlinked stories.
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B.
How Tomorrow Moves
"How Tomorrow Moves" is the corporate slogan used by CSX Transportation to emphasize its role in modern, forward-looking freight rail services.
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C.
Sponsors of Tomorrow
Sponsors of Tomorrow was an Intel marketing campaign that emphasized the company’s role in driving future technological innovation and everyday computing experiences.
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D.
Jonathan Bush
Jonathan Bush was an American banker and businessman, known as a member of the Bush political family and brother of President George H. W. Bush.
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E.
Christopher Keene
Christopher Keene was an American conductor best known for his leadership in opera, including his tenure heading major U.S. opera companies and championing contemporary works.
- 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 Tomorrow Target entity description: Tom Tomorrow is the pen name of American cartoonist Dan Perkins, best known for his satirical comic strip "This Modern World."
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A.
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
"Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" is a 1963 Italian anthology comedy film directed by Vittorio De Sica, best known for starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni in three interlinked stories.
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B.
How Tomorrow Moves
"How Tomorrow Moves" is the corporate slogan used by CSX Transportation to emphasize its role in modern, forward-looking freight rail services.
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C.
Sponsors of Tomorrow
Sponsors of Tomorrow was an Intel marketing campaign that emphasized the company’s role in driving future technological innovation and everyday computing experiences.
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D.
Jonathan Bush
Jonathan Bush was an American banker and businessman, known as a member of the Bush political family and brother of President George H. W. Bush.
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E.
Christopher Keene
Christopher Keene was an American conductor best known for his leadership in opera, including his tenure heading major U.S. opera companies and championing contemporary works.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
pen name ⓘ |
| activeSince | late 1980s ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Association of Alternative Newsmedia Award
ⓘ
Herblock Prize ⓘ Herblock Prize ⓘ Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award ⓘ Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| created | This Modern World ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
comics
ⓘ
political cartoons ⓘ political commentary ⓘ |
| genre |
editorial cartooning
ⓘ
political satire ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
dark humor
ⓘ
satire ⓘ surrealism ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
consumer culture
ⓘ
media criticism ⓘ politics ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | http://thismodernworld.com/ ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | comic strip ⓘ |
| nationality |
American
ⓘ
American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
This Modern World
ⓘ
This Modern World ⓘ |
| occupation |
cartoonist
ⓘ
cartoonist ⓘ |
| pseudonym | Tom Tomorrow ⓘ |
| publishedIn |
Daily Kos
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Salon ⓘ The Nation ⓘ alternative weeklies ⓘ online news sites ⓘ |
| realName | Dan Perkins ⓘ |
| usesPseudonym | Tom Tomorrow ⓘ |
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 Tomorrow Description of subject: Tom Tomorrow is the pen name of American cartoonist Dan Perkins, best known for his satirical comic strip "This Modern World."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.