Tom Epperson
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Tom Epperson is an American screenwriter and novelist best known for his frequent collaborations with Billy Bob Thornton on gritty crime dramas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom Epperson canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7288211 — 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 Epperson Context triple: [One False Move, screenwriter, Tom Epperson]
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A.
Joe Erwin
Joe Erwin is an American businessman and sports executive best known as the founder and owner of the Greenville Triumph SC professional soccer club.
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B.
Rod Tidwell
Rod Tidwell is a charismatic, outspoken professional football player in the film "Jerry Maguire," best known for his demand to "show me the money."
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C.
Charles Neblett
Charles Neblett is an American civil rights activist and singer best known as a founding member of the SNCC Freedom Singers, who used music to support and advance the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
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D.
Ric Binkley
Ric Binkley was an American illustrator best known for his science fiction and fantasy cover art in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Tony Puryear
Tony Puryear is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1996 action film "Eraser" starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- 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 Epperson Target entity description: Tom Epperson is an American screenwriter and novelist best known for his frequent collaborations with Billy Bob Thornton on gritty crime dramas.
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A.
Joe Erwin
Joe Erwin is an American businessman and sports executive best known as the founder and owner of the Greenville Triumph SC professional soccer club.
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B.
Rod Tidwell
Rod Tidwell is a charismatic, outspoken professional football player in the film "Jerry Maguire," best known for his demand to "show me the money."
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C.
Charles Neblett
Charles Neblett is an American civil rights activist and singer best known as a founding member of the SNCC Freedom Singers, who used music to support and advance the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
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D.
Ric Binkley
Ric Binkley was an American illustrator best known for his science fiction and fantasy cover art in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Tony Puryear
Tony Puryear is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1996 action film "Eraser" starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novelist
ⓘ
person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| collaboratedWith | Billy Bob Thornton ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
crime fiction
ⓘ
film ⓘ literature ⓘ screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
drama ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasCollaborator | Billy Bob Thornton ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
collaborations with Billy Bob Thornton
ⓘ
gritty crime dramas ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Family Thing
ⓘ
One False Move ⓘ Robbers ⓘ Sailor ⓘ The Gift ⓘ The Kind One ⓘ |
| occupation |
film producer
ⓘ
novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
character-driven
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gritty ⓘ |
| wrote |
A Family Thing
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One False Move ⓘ The Gift ⓘ |
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 Epperson Description of subject: Tom Epperson is an American screenwriter and novelist best known for his frequent collaborations with Billy Bob Thornton on gritty crime dramas.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.