Lomax
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Lomax is an English-language surname borne by various notable individuals across fields such as music, literature, and film.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lomax canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7711400 — 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: Lomax Context triple: [Eric Lomax, familyName, Lomax]
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A.
Lonnie
Lonnie is the given name of Lonnie G. Bunch III, the historian and museum director who became the 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
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B.
Lonnie
Lonnie is the given first name of American country music singer and songwriter Mel Tillis.
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Gatemouth Brown
Gatemouth Brown was an American multi-instrumentalist and genre-blending musician best known for his innovative work in blues, country, jazz, and Cajun music.
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Leon Redbone
Leon Redbone was a Canadian-American singer and guitarist known for his nostalgic renditions of early 20th-century jazz, blues, and Tin Pan Alley songs, delivered in a distinctive, laid-back vocal style.
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Rex Linn
Rex Linn is an American character actor best known for his roles in film and television, including action movies like "Cliffhanger" and crime dramas such as "CSI: Miami."
- 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: Lomax Target entity description: Lomax is an English-language surname borne by various notable individuals across fields such as music, literature, and film.
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A.
Lonnie
Lonnie is the given first name of American country music singer and songwriter Mel Tillis.
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B.
Lonnie
Lonnie is the given name of Lonnie G. Bunch III, the historian and museum director who became the 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
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C.
Gatemouth Brown
Gatemouth Brown was an American multi-instrumentalist and genre-blending musician best known for his innovative work in blues, country, jazz, and Cajun music.
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D.
Leon Redbone
Leon Redbone was a Canadian-American singer and guitarist known for his nostalgic renditions of early 20th-century jazz, blues, and Tin Pan Alley songs, delivered in a distinctive, laid-back vocal style.
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E.
Rex Linn
Rex Linn is an American character actor best known for his roles in film and television, including action movies like "Cliffhanger" and crime dramas such as "CSI: Miami."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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surname ⓘ |
| category |
English-language surnames
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surnames of English origin ⓘ |
| familyName |
Lomax
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Lomax ⓘ Lomax ⓘ Lomax ⓘ Lomax ⓘ Lomax ⓘ Lomax ⓘ Lomax ⓘ Lomax ⓘ Lomax ⓘ Lomax ⓘ Lomax ⓘ Smith ⓘ |
| givenName | Vernon ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Alan Lomax
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David Lomax ⓘ Eric Lomax ⓘ Jackie Lomax ⓘ John Lomax ⓘ Judith Lomax ⓘ Kelvin Lomax ⓘ Michael Lomax ⓘ Neil Lomax ⓘ Rachel Lomax ⓘ Scott Lomax ⓘ Terry Lomax ⓘ Vernon Lomax Smith ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| middleName | Lomax ⓘ |
| notableFor |
field recordings of folk music
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memoir "The Railway Man" ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football player
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academic administrator ⓘ archivist ⓘ author ⓘ author ⓘ civil servant ⓘ economist ⓘ economist ⓘ ethnomusicologist ⓘ film director ⓘ folklorist ⓘ folklorist ⓘ footballer ⓘ journalist ⓘ musicologist ⓘ poet ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| usedAs | family name ⓘ |
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: Lomax Description of subject: Lomax is an English-language surname borne by various notable individuals across fields such as music, literature, and film.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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