Tomasson
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Tomasson is a surname most prominently associated with Helgi Tomasson, the renowned Icelandic-born ballet dancer, choreographer, and long-time artistic director of San Francisco Ballet.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tomasson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10595765 — 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: Tomasson Context triple: [Helgi Tomasson, familyName, Tomasson]
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A.
Tomas
Tomas is a masculine given name commonly used in various European and Latin American countries, often equivalent to "Thomas" in English.
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B.
Tomasino
Tomasino is the colloquial term used to refer to students of the University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines.
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C.
Williamsson
Williamsson is a Scandinavian patronymic surname, likely meaning "son of William" and used as a variant of the more common form Williamson.
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D.
Tomlins
Tomlins is an English surname borne by various notable individuals, including the 19th-century legal writer Thomas Edlyne Tomlins.
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E.
Toomaske
Toomaske is a diminutive, affectionate form of the Estonian male given name Toomas.
- 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: Tomasson Target entity description: Tomasson is a surname most prominently associated with Helgi Tomasson, the renowned Icelandic-born ballet dancer, choreographer, and long-time artistic director of San Francisco Ballet.
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A.
Tomas
Tomas is a masculine given name commonly used in various European and Latin American countries, often equivalent to "Thomas" in English.
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B.
Tomasino
Tomasino is the colloquial term used to refer to students of the University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines.
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C.
Williamsson
Williamsson is a Scandinavian patronymic surname, likely meaning "son of William" and used as a variant of the more common form Williamson.
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D.
Tomlins
Tomlins is an English surname borne by various notable individuals, including the 19th-century legal writer Thomas Edlyne Tomlins.
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E.
Toomaske
Toomaske is a diminutive, affectionate form of the Estonian male given name Toomas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artistic director
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ballet company ⓘ ballet dancer ⓘ choreographer ⓘ person ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| countryOfCitizenship | Iceland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1942-10-08 ⓘ |
| employer | San Francisco Ballet ⓘ |
| familyName | Tomasson ⓘ |
| genre | classical ballet ⓘ |
| givenName | Helgi ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | Icelandic ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Helgi Tomasson ⓘ |
| location | San Francisco ⓘ |
| notableFor | San Francisco Ballet artistic directorship ⓘ |
| notableWork | choreographies for San Francisco Ballet ⓘ |
| occupation |
artistic director
ⓘ
ballet dancer ⓘ choreographer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Reykjavík
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linked to:
Reykjavík, Iceland
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| positionHeld | artistic director of San Francisco Ballet ⓘ |
| workLocation | San Francisco ⓘ |
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: Tomasson Description of subject: Tomasson is a surname most prominently associated with Helgi Tomasson, the renowned Icelandic-born ballet dancer, choreographer, and long-time artistic director of San Francisco Ballet.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Tomasson