Robert Kelly Thomas
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Robert Kelly Thomas is an American singer, songwriter, and musician best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Matchbox Twenty and for his successful solo career.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Kelly Thomas canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6380613 — 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: Robert Kelly Thomas Context triple: [Rob Thomas, birthName, Robert Kelly Thomas]
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A.
James Kelly
James Kelly was a 19th-century American newspaper publisher and one of the founders of the Chicago Tribune.
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B.
James Kelly
James Kelly is a NASA astronaut and former U.S. Air Force test pilot who flew as the pilot of the Space Shuttle Discovery on missions including the post-Columbia return-to-flight STS-114.
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C.
Charles Edward Kelly
Charles Edward "Chip" Kelly is an American football coach best known for his innovative up-tempo offenses in college football at Oregon and in the NFL with the Philadelphia Eagles and San Francisco 49ers.
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D.
Jeremy Thomas
Jeremy Thomas is a renowned British film producer known for his work on acclaimed independent and art-house films, including multiple collaborations with prominent directors.
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E.
Tony Thomas
Tony Thomas is an American television and film producer best known for co-founding Witt/Thomas Productions and producing popular sitcoms such as "The Golden Girls."
- 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: Robert Kelly Thomas Target entity description: Robert Kelly Thomas is an American singer, songwriter, and musician best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Matchbox Twenty and for his successful solo career.
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A.
James Kelly
James Kelly was a 19th-century American newspaper publisher and one of the founders of the Chicago Tribune.
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B.
James Kelly
James Kelly is a NASA astronaut and former U.S. Air Force test pilot who flew as the pilot of the Space Shuttle Discovery on missions including the post-Columbia return-to-flight STS-114.
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C.
Charles Edward Kelly
Charles Edward "Chip" Kelly is an American football coach best known for his innovative up-tempo offenses in college football at Oregon and in the NFL with the Philadelphia Eagles and San Francisco 49ers.
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D.
Jeremy Thomas
Jeremy Thomas is a renowned British film producer known for his work on acclaimed independent and art-house films, including multiple collaborations with prominent directors.
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E.
Tony Thomas
Tony Thomas is an American television and film producer best known for co-founding Witt/Thomas Productions and producing popular sitcoms such as "The Golden Girls."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1990s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Matchbox Twenty
NERFINISHED
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Santana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals
NERFINISHED
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Grammy Award for Record of the Year NERFINISHED ⓘ Grammy Award for Song of the Year NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Carlos Santana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1972-02-14 ⓘ |
| familyName | Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
pop rock ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
piano ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance | English ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1999 ⓘ |
| memberOf | Matchbox Twenty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Robert Kelly Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableRole | lead vocalist of Matchbox Twenty ⓘ |
| notableWork |
album Mad Season
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album More Than You Think You Are ⓘ album Yourself or Someone Like You ⓘ solo album ...Something to Be ⓘ solo album Chip Tooth Smile ⓘ solo album Cradlesong ⓘ solo album The Great Unknown ⓘ song Smooth ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
ⓘ
singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Landstuhl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| providedVocalsOn | Smooth ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| spouse | Marisol Maldonado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Rob Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wroteSong | Smooth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Robert Kelly Thomas Description of subject: Robert Kelly Thomas is an American singer, songwriter, and musician best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Matchbox Twenty and for his successful solo career.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.