Tom Kidd
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Tom Kidd was a 19th-century Scottish professional golfer best known for winning the 1873 Open Championship at St Andrews.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom Kidd canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9379538 — 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 Kidd Context triple: [Claret Jug, firstWinner, Tom Kidd]
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A.
Jeff Pearlman
Jeff Pearlman is an American sportswriter and author best known for his deeply reported, often controversial biographies of major sports figures and teams, including the Los Angeles Lakers dynasty that inspired the series "Winning Time."
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B.
James H. Merrell
James H. Merrell is an American historian and ethnohistorian known for his influential scholarship on Native American history and cultures in colonial North America.
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C.
J. Anthony Brown
J. Anthony Brown is an American comedian, actor, and radio personality known for his stand-up work and appearances in film and television.
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D.
Aaron M. Powell
Aaron M. Powell was a 19th-century American abolitionist and reformer who played a leading role in anti-slavery and social justice movements.
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E.
Caleb Carr
Caleb Carr is an American military historian and novelist best known for his historical thriller "The Alienist."
- 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 Kidd Target entity description: Tom Kidd was a 19th-century Scottish professional golfer best known for winning the 1873 Open Championship at St Andrews.
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A.
Jeff Pearlman
Jeff Pearlman is an American sportswriter and author best known for his deeply reported, often controversial biographies of major sports figures and teams, including the Los Angeles Lakers dynasty that inspired the series "Winning Time."
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B.
James H. Merrell
James H. Merrell is an American historian and ethnohistorian known for his influential scholarship on Native American history and cultures in colonial North America.
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C.
J. Anthony Brown
J. Anthony Brown is an American comedian, actor, and radio personality known for his stand-up work and appearances in film and television.
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D.
Aaron M. Powell
Aaron M. Powell was a 19th-century American abolitionist and reformer who played a leading role in anti-slavery and social justice movements.
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E.
Caleb Carr
Caleb Carr is an American military historian and novelist best known for his historical thriller "The Alienist."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
19th-century golfer
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Scottish golfer ⓘ professional golfer ⓘ |
| competedIn | 19th-century golf tournaments ⓘ |
| countryOfSport | Scotland ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Kidd ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Tom ⓘ |
| homeCourse | St Andrews Links ⓘ |
| isAChampionOf | The Open Championship ⓘ |
| isInCategory |
19th-century Scottish sportsmen
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Scottish male golfers ⓘ Winners of The Open Championship ⓘ |
| knownFor |
playing at St Andrews Links
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winning the 1873 Open Championship ⓘ |
| majorChampionshipWins | 1 ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | first Open Championship held at St Andrews after the move from Prestwick ⓘ |
| occupation | professional golfer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | 1873 Open Championship ⓘ |
| placeOfMajorVictory | St Andrews ⓘ |
| playedOnTour | The Open Championship ⓘ |
| representedClub | St Andrews ⓘ |
| sport | golf ⓘ |
| status | professional ⓘ |
| tournamentFormatOfWin | stroke play ⓘ |
| winnerOf | 1873 Open Championship ⓘ |
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 Kidd Description of subject: Tom Kidd was a 19th-century Scottish professional golfer best known for winning the 1873 Open Championship at St Andrews.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.