Tim
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Tim is a fictional character from Robert Silverberg’s science fiction novel "The Book of Skulls," one of the four college students who seek an ancient order promising immortality at a terrible price.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tim canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8495170 — 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: Tim Context triple: [The Book of Skulls, hasCharacter, Tim]
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A.
Tim
Tim is the first name of American actor, writer, and director Tim Blake Nelson, known for his roles in films like "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs."
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B.
Tim
Tim is a fictional character portrayed by American actor Matt Bomer.
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C.
Tim
Tim is a critically acclaimed 1985 studio album by American rock band The Replacements, often regarded as one of their defining releases in alternative rock.
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D.
Tim
Tim is the given name of Tim Wu, a prominent legal scholar and policy advocate known for coining the term "net neutrality."
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E.
Tom
Tom is a common masculine given name, often used in English-speaking countries as a short form of Thomas.
- 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: Tim Target entity description: Tim is a fictional character from Robert Silverberg’s science fiction novel "The Book of Skulls," one of the four college students who seek an ancient order promising immortality at a terrible price.
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A.
Tim
Tim is the given name of Tim Wu, a prominent legal scholar and policy advocate known for coining the term "net neutrality."
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B.
Tim
Tim is a fictional character portrayed by American actor Matt Bomer.
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C.
Tim
Tim is a critically acclaimed 1985 studio album by American rock band The Replacements, often regarded as one of their defining releases in alternative rock.
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D.
Tim
Tim is the first name of American actor, writer, and director Tim Blake Nelson, known for his roles in films like "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs."
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E.
Tom
Tom is a common masculine given name, often used in English-speaking countries as a short form of Thomas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Book of Skulls ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | science fiction ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkBy | American author ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
ancient order of the Skulls
ⓘ
linked to:
The Skulls
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States (fictional context)
ⓘ
linked to:
United States (fictional setting)
|
| createdBy | Robert Silverberg ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | human ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
The Book of Skulls (1972)
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linked to:
The Book of Skulls
|
| hasFictionalUniverse |
The Book of Skulls universe
ⓘ
linked to:
The Book of Skulls
|
| isCharacterIn | novel ⓘ |
| isOneOfGroup | four college students ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| lifeStage | college student ⓘ |
| medium | print literature ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
point-of-view character
ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of The Book of Skulls ⓘ |
| seeks |
ancient order promising immortality
ⓘ
immortality ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity |
United States (novel setting)
ⓘ
linked to:
United States (fictional setting)
|
| sharesQuestWith |
Eli
ⓘ
Ned ⓘ Oliver ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
immortality quest
ⓘ
mortality ⓘ sacrifice ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 1972 ⓘ |
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: Tim Description of subject: Tim is a fictional character from Robert Silverberg’s science fiction novel "The Book of Skulls," one of the four college students who seek an ancient order promising immortality at a terrible price.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.