Tom Towles
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Tom Towles was an American character actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in cult horror films such as "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" and "The Devil's Rejects."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom Towles canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9913333 — 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 Towles Context triple: [House of 1000 Corpses, castMember, Tom Towles]
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A.
Tom Kitt
Tom Kitt is an American composer, arranger, and music director best known for his Tony- and Pulitzer-winning work on the rock musical "Next to Normal" and other Broadway productions.
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B.
Jon Brion
Jon Brion is an American composer, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer known for his distinctive, melodic production style and acclaimed film scores.
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C.
C. Adam Schlesinger
C. Adam Schlesinger was an American composer and songwriter best known for his work in film and television music, as well as for co-founding the band Fountains of Wayne.
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D.
Maty Siman
Maty Siman is a technology entrepreneur best known as the founder of the application security company Checkmarx.
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E.
Nico Muhly
Nico Muhly is an American contemporary classical composer known for his genre-blending works, prolific collaborations, and contributions to opera, film, and choral music.
- 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 Towles Target entity description: Tom Towles was an American character actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in cult horror films such as "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" and "The Devil's Rejects."
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A.
Tom Kitt
Tom Kitt is an American composer, arranger, and music director best known for his Tony- and Pulitzer-winning work on the rock musical "Next to Normal" and other Broadway productions.
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B.
Jon Brion
Jon Brion is an American composer, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer known for his distinctive, melodic production style and acclaimed film scores.
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C.
C. Adam Schlesinger
C. Adam Schlesinger was an American composer and songwriter best known for his work in film and television music, as well as for co-founding the band Fountains of Wayne.
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D.
Maty Siman
Maty Siman is a technology entrepreneur best known as the founder of the application security company Checkmarx.
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E.
Nico Muhly
Nico Muhly is an American contemporary classical composer known for his genre-blending works, prolific collaborations, and contributions to opera, film, and choral music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2010s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
ER
NERFINISHED
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Fortress (1992 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer NERFINISHED ⓘ House of 1000 Corpses NERFINISHED ⓘ Miami Vice NERFINISHED ⓘ NYPD Blue NERFINISHED ⓘ Night of the Living Dead (1990 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Devil's Rejects NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rock (1996 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Florida, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | stroke ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1950-03-20 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2015-04-02 ⓘ |
| familyName | Towles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | horror film ⓘ |
| givenName | Tom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | intense villainous roles ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| name | Tom Towles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Fortress (1992 film)
NERFINISHED
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Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer NERFINISHED ⓘ House of 1000 Corpses NERFINISHED ⓘ Night of the Living Dead (1990 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Devil's Rejects NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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character actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Pinellas, Florida, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| workedWith | Rob Zombie 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 Towles Description of subject: Tom Towles was an American character actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in cult horror films such as "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" and "The Devil's Rejects."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.