Toles
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Toles is the surname of American political cartoonist Tom Toles, known for his sharp, liberal-leaning editorial cartoons.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Toles canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7977785 — 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: Toles Context triple: [Tom Toles, familyName, Toles]
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A.
Toma
Toma is a major Mande language spoken primarily in Guinea and neighboring West African countries.
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B.
Olesko
Olesko is a historic town in western Ukraine best known for its medieval castle, which served as the birthplace of Polish King John III Sobieski.
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C.
Tozzer
Tozzer is a surname most notably associated with Alfred Marston Tozzer, an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his pioneering work on Mayan civilization.
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D.
Tose
Tose is the surname of Leonard Tose, the former owner of the Philadelphia Eagles NFL franchise.
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E.
Toffia
Toffia is a small historic hilltop town in the Lazio region of central Italy, known for its medieval architecture and scenic countryside 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: Toles Target entity description: Toles is the surname of American political cartoonist Tom Toles, known for his sharp, liberal-leaning editorial cartoons.
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A.
Toma
Toma is a major Mande language spoken primarily in Guinea and neighboring West African countries.
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B.
Olesko
Olesko is a historic town in western Ukraine best known for its medieval castle, which served as the birthplace of Polish King John III Sobieski.
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C.
Tozzer
Tozzer is a surname most notably associated with Alfred Marston Tozzer, an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his pioneering work on Mayan civilization.
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D.
Tose
Tose is the surname of Leonard Tose, the former owner of the Philadelphia Eagles NFL franchise.
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E.
Toffia
Toffia is a small historic hilltop town in the Lazio region of central Italy, known for its medieval architecture and scenic countryside setting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
editorial cartoonist
ⓘ
human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Herblock Prize
ⓘ
National Cartoonists Society Editorial Cartoon Award ⓘ Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Buffalo News
ⓘ
linked to:
The Buffalo News
The Washington Daily News ⓘ The Washington Post ⓘ
linked to:
Washington Post
|
| familyName | Toles ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cartooning
ⓘ
journalism ⓘ politics ⓘ |
| genre |
editorial cartooning
ⓘ
political satire ⓘ |
| givenName | Tom ⓘ |
| hasLastName | Toles ⓘ |
| hasType | English-language surname ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
editorial cartoons
ⓘ
political cartoons ⓘ |
| notableWork |
editorial cartoons for The Washington Post
ⓘ
editorial cartoons for the Buffalo News ⓘ |
| occupation |
cartoonist
ⓘ
editorial cartoonist ⓘ political cartoonist ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | liberal ⓘ |
| usedBy | Tom Toles ⓘ |
| workLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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: Toles Description of subject: Toles is the surname of American political cartoonist Tom Toles, known for his sharp, liberal-leaning editorial cartoons.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.