Craig Thomas
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Craig Thomas is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating the hit sitcom "How I Met Your Mother."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Craig Thomas canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9565034 — 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: Craig Thomas Context triple: [How I Met Your Mother, creator, Craig Thomas]
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A.
Michael Shrieve
Michael Shrieve is an American drummer and percussionist best known for his work with Santana, including his iconic performance at Woodstock and contributions to their classic early albums.
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B.
Christian Broun
Christian Broun was a Scottish noblewoman best known as the mother of James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie, who served as Governor-General of India in the mid-19th century.
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C.
Christopher Jennings
Christopher Jennings is known primarily as the son of the late Canadian-American broadcast journalist and longtime ABC World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings.
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D.
Chris Loken
Chris Loken is the mother of American actress and model Kristanna Loken.
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E.
Scott Garrett
Scott Garrett is a collegiate sports administrator who serves as the athletic director for the Cleveland State University Vikings athletic program.
- 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: Craig Thomas Target entity description: Craig Thomas is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating the hit sitcom "How I Met Your Mother."
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A.
Michael Shrieve
Michael Shrieve is an American drummer and percussionist best known for his work with Santana, including his iconic performance at Woodstock and contributions to their classic early albums.
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B.
Christian Broun
Christian Broun was a Scottish noblewoman best known as the mother of James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie, who served as Governor-General of India in the mid-19th century.
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C.
Christopher Jennings
Christopher Jennings is known primarily as the son of the late Canadian-American broadcast journalist and longtime ABC World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings.
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D.
Chris Loken
Chris Loken is the mother of American actress and model Kristanna Loken.
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E.
Scott Garrett
Scott Garrett is a collegiate sports administrator who serves as the athletic director for the Cleveland State University Vikings athletic program.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
ⓘ
television producer ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st century ⓘ |
| almaMater | Wesleyan University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnPersonalExperiencesFor | How I Met Your Mother NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coCreatedWith | Carter Bays NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coCreatorOf |
How I Met Your Mother
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Goodwin Games NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFoundedProductionCompanyWith | Carter Bays NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| creatorOf | How I Met Your Mother NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Wesleyan University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | CBS (network) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| executiveProducerOf | How I Met Your Mother NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
comedy writing
ⓘ
sitcom production ⓘ television ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
sitcom ⓘ |
| hasWritingPartner | Carter Bays NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Phi Beta Kappa (Wesleyan University chapter) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAward | Primetime Emmy Award nomination NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
American Dad!
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
How I Met Your Mother NERFINISHED ⓘ Late Show with David Letterman NERFINISHED ⓘ Oliver Beene NERFINISHED ⓘ The Goodwin Games NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
screenwriter
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television producer ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| partnerInWritingWith | Carter Bays NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producerOf | How I Met Your Mother NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Bays-Thomas Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Rebecca Alson-Milkman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| wroteFor |
American Dad!
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
How I Met Your Mother NERFINISHED ⓘ Late Show with David Letterman NERFINISHED ⓘ Oliver Beene 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: Craig Thomas Description of subject: Craig Thomas is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating the hit sitcom "How I Met Your Mother."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.