Tommy Cahill
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Tommy Cahill is the troubled soldier protagonist of the film "Brothers," whose return from war deeply disrupts his family and personal life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tommy Cahill canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10708328 — 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: Tommy Cahill Context triple: [Brothers, mainCharacter, Tommy Cahill]
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A.
Tommy Fagan
Tommy Fagan is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Fagan.
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B.
Tommy Loughran
Tommy Loughran was an American professional boxer and former world light heavyweight champion, renowned for his technical skill and for facing many of the top heavyweights of his era.
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C.
Tommy Connolly
Tommy Connolly was a prominent early 20th-century Major League Baseball umpire known for his long service in the American League and his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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D.
Tommy Larkin
Tommy Larkin is a drummer best known for his work with the alternative rock band Concrete Blonde.
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E.
Brendan McLoughlin
Brendan McLoughlin is a former New York City police officer who gained public attention through his marriage to country music star Miranda Lambert.
- 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: Tommy Cahill Target entity description: Tommy Cahill is the troubled soldier protagonist of the film "Brothers," whose return from war deeply disrupts his family and personal life.
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A.
Tommy Fagan
Tommy Fagan is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Fagan.
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B.
Tommy Loughran
Tommy Loughran was an American professional boxer and former world light heavyweight champion, renowned for his technical skill and for facing many of the top heavyweights of his era.
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C.
Tommy Connolly
Tommy Connolly was a prominent early 20th-century Major League Baseball umpire known for his long service in the American League and his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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D.
Tommy Larkin
Tommy Larkin is a drummer best known for his work with the alternative rock band Concrete Blonde.
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E.
Brendan McLoughlin
Brendan McLoughlin is a former New York City police officer who gained public attention through his marriage to country music star Miranda Lambert.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Brothers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralConflict |
alienation from his family
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inability to cope with war experiences ⓘ |
| characterArc |
experiences severe emotional and psychological instability
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struggles to reintegrate into family life ⓘ |
| conflict | post-traumatic stress after war ⓘ |
| countryOfSetting | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyRole |
father
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husband ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | "Brothers" film universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasName | Tommy Cahill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | troubled returning veteran ⓘ |
| narrativeImportance | central character driving the plot ⓘ |
| occupation | soldier ⓘ |
| portrayedAs | emotionally scarred by war ⓘ |
| roleInWork | protagonist of the film "Brothers" ⓘ |
| storyEvent |
his return disrupts his family dynamics
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returns home from military deployment ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
family disruption after war
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guilt and emotional breakdown ⓘ psychological trauma of combat ⓘ |
| workGenreContext | war drama ⓘ |
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: Tommy Cahill Description of subject: Tommy Cahill is the troubled soldier protagonist of the film "Brothers," whose return from war deeply disrupts his family and personal life.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.