Tom Swartwout
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Tom Swartwout is a film editor best known for his work on the crime drama "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom Swartwout canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10583448 — 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 Swartwout Context triple: [Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, editor, Tom Swartwout]
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A.
Gerrit van der Veen
Gerrit van der Veen was a Dutch sculptor and prominent World War II resistance leader known for organizing daring actions against the Nazi occupation, including large-scale identity card forgeries.
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B.
Egerton Swartwout
Egerton Swartwout was an American architect known for his Beaux-Arts–influenced institutional and civic buildings in the early 20th century.
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C.
Lyle Wynant
Lyle Wynant is a central character in Don DeLillo’s novel "Players," around whom much of the book’s exploration of urban alienation and modern disconnection revolves.
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D.
Max Vandenburg
Max Vandenburg is a young Jewish man hiding from the Nazis in Markus Zusak’s novel "The Book Thief," whose friendship with Liesel Meminger profoundly shapes the story’s emotional core.
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E.
Roelandt Savery
Roelandt Savery was a Dutch Golden Age painter and draughtsman renowned for his detailed landscapes, animal studies, and fantastical scenes, including early depictions of the dodo.
- 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 Swartwout Target entity description: Tom Swartwout is a film editor best known for his work on the crime drama "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead."
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A.
Gerrit van der Veen
Gerrit van der Veen was a Dutch sculptor and prominent World War II resistance leader known for organizing daring actions against the Nazi occupation, including large-scale identity card forgeries.
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B.
Egerton Swartwout
Egerton Swartwout was an American architect known for his Beaux-Arts–influenced institutional and civic buildings in the early 20th century.
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C.
Lyle Wynant
Lyle Wynant is a central character in Don DeLillo’s novel "Players," around whom much of the book’s exploration of urban alienation and modern disconnection revolves.
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D.
Max Vandenburg
Max Vandenburg is a young Jewish man hiding from the Nazis in Markus Zusak’s novel "The Book Thief," whose friendship with Liesel Meminger profoundly shapes the story’s emotional core.
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E.
Roelandt Savery
Roelandt Savery was a Dutch Golden Age painter and draughtsman renowned for his detailed landscapes, animal studies, and fantastical scenes, including early depictions of the dodo.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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film editor ⓘ |
| editor | Tom Swartwout ⓘ |
| genre | crime drama ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization | crime drama ⓘ |
| knownFor | Before the Devil Knows You're Dead ⓘ |
| occupation | film editor ⓘ |
| workedOn | Before the Devil Knows You're Dead ⓘ |
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 Swartwout Description of subject: Tom Swartwout is a film editor best known for his work on the crime drama "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.