Isham
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Isham is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals, including American trumpeter and film composer Mark Isham.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Isham canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9511148 — 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: Isham Context triple: [Mark Isham, familyName, Isham]
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A.
Rilland
Rilland is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland, located on the island of Zuid-Beveland.
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B.
Ebersole
Ebersole is a surname most notably associated with American actress and singer Christine Ebersole.
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C.
Bivins
Bivins is a surname most notably associated with Michael Bivins, an American singer, rapper, and music executive known for his work with New Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe.
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D.
Tilghman
Tilghman is a masculine given name of English origin that has been borne by various notable American figures, including politicians and military officers.
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E.
Leahey
Leahey is a surname variant of Leahy, an Irish family name of Gaelic origin.
- 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: Isham Target entity description: Isham is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals, including American trumpeter and film composer Mark Isham.
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A.
Rilland
Rilland is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland, located on the island of Zuid-Beveland.
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B.
Ebersole
Ebersole is a surname most notably associated with American actress and singer Christine Ebersole.
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C.
Bivins
Bivins is a surname most notably associated with Michael Bivins, an American singer, rapper, and music executive known for his work with New Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe.
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D.
Tilghman
Tilghman is a masculine given name of English origin that has been borne by various notable American figures, including politicians and military officers.
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E.
Leahey
Leahey is a surname variant of Leahy, an Irish family name of Gaelic origin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Isham ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Mark Isham ⓘ |
| occupation |
film composer
ⓘ
musician ⓘ trumpeter ⓘ |
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: Isham Description of subject: Isham is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals, including American trumpeter and film composer Mark Isham.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.