Tom Quinn
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Tom Quinn is a central intelligence officer character in the British television spy drama "Spooks," known for his work within the UK's MI5 security service.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Quinn canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8431666 — 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 Quinn Context triple: [Spooks, mainCharacter, Tom Quinn]
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A.
Brady Cunningham
Brady Cunningham is an American fashion designer and stylist best known as the wife of actor and musician Jason Schwartzman.
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B.
John Ryan
John Ryan is an American songwriter and producer known for co-writing numerous pop hits for artists such as One Direction, Maroon 5, and Jason Derulo.
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C.
Scott Brady
Scott Brady was an American film and television actor known for his rugged roles in Westerns and crime dramas during the mid-20th century.
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D.
Dallas Winston
Dallas Winston is a tough, rebellious greaser in S. E. Hinton's novel "The Outsiders," known for his hardened exterior and fiercely loyal nature.
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E.
Jack O'Callahan
Jack O'Callahan is an American former defenseman best known for being part of the "Miracle on Ice" U.S. team that won gold at the 1980 Winter Olympics before going on to play in the NHL.
- 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 Quinn Target entity description: Tom Quinn is a central intelligence officer character in the British television spy drama "Spooks," known for his work within the UK's MI5 security service.
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A.
Brady Cunningham
Brady Cunningham is an American fashion designer and stylist best known as the wife of actor and musician Jason Schwartzman.
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B.
John Ryan
John Ryan is an American songwriter and producer known for co-writing numerous pop hits for artists such as One Direction, Maroon 5, and Jason Derulo.
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C.
Scott Brady
Scott Brady was an American film and television actor known for his rugged roles in Westerns and crime dramas during the mid-20th century.
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D.
Dallas Winston
Dallas Winston is a tough, rebellious greaser in S. E. Hinton's novel "The Outsiders," known for his hardened exterior and fiercely loyal nature.
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E.
Jack O'Callahan
Jack O'Callahan is an American former defenseman best known for being part of the "Miracle on Ice" U.S. team that won gold at the 1980 Winter Olympics before going on to play in the NHL.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Tom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
MI-5
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spooks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| broadcastOn | BBC One NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | David Wolstencroft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| department | Section D ⓘ |
| employer | MI5 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Spooks universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Spooks series 1 episode 1 ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 2002 ⓘ |
| focus | counter-terrorism ⓘ |
| fullName | Thomas Quinn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | spy drama ⓘ |
| hasColleague |
Danny Hunter
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harry Pearce NERFINISHED ⓘ Ruth Evershed NERFINISHED ⓘ Tessa Phillips NERFINISHED ⓘ Zoe Reynolds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStepchild | Maisie Simm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| lastAppearance | Spooks series 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| network | BBC One NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | intelligence officer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Matthew Macfadyen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
field officer
ⓘ
senior case officer ⓘ |
| seriesTitle | Spooks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Ellie Simm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Thames House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worksFor | UK Security Service 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: Tom Quinn Description of subject: Tom Quinn is a central intelligence officer character in the British television spy drama "Spooks," known for his work within the UK's MI5 security service.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.