Tolman Gardner
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Tolman Gardner is a hobbit of the Shire from J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, known as one of the children of Samwise Gamgee and Rosie Cotton.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tolman Gardner canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11152028 — 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: Tolman Gardner Context triple: [Rosie Cotton, child, Tolman Gardner]
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A.
Roy Gardner
Roy Gardner was an American economist and game theorist known for his work on strategic behavior, common-pool resources, and the application of game theory to environmental and resource economics.
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B.
Gardner James
Gardner James was an American film actor active during the silent and early sound eras, known for supporting roles in adventure and drama films.
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C.
Dale A. Gardner
Dale A. Gardner was a U.S. Navy officer and NASA astronaut who flew on two Space Shuttle missions in the 1980s, notably helping to retrieve malfunctioning satellites during STS-51-A.
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D.
Walter Gilman
Walter Gilman is the ill-fated Miskatonic University student whose occult studies and nightmarish experiences drive the plot of H. P. Lovecraft’s horror story "The Dreams in the Witch House."
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E.
Pierpont Edwards
Pierpont Edwards was an American lawyer, politician, and federal judge from Connecticut who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress and became the first U.S. District Judge for the District of Connecticut.
- 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: Tolman Gardner Target entity description: Tolman Gardner is a hobbit of the Shire from J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, known as one of the children of Samwise Gamgee and Rosie Cotton.
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A.
Roy Gardner
Roy Gardner was an American economist and game theorist known for his work on strategic behavior, common-pool resources, and the application of game theory to environmental and resource economics.
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B.
Gardner James
Gardner James was an American film actor active during the silent and early sound eras, known for supporting roles in adventure and drama films.
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C.
Dale A. Gardner
Dale A. Gardner was a U.S. Navy officer and NASA astronaut who flew on two Space Shuttle missions in the 1980s, notably helping to retrieve malfunctioning satellites during STS-51-A.
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D.
Walter Gilman
Walter Gilman is the ill-fated Miskatonic University student whose occult studies and nightmarish experiences drive the plot of H. P. Lovecraft’s horror story "The Dreams in the Witch House."
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E.
Pierpont Edwards
Pierpont Edwards was an American lawyer, politician, and federal judge from Connecticut who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress and became the first U.S. District Judge for the District of Connecticut.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Character in The Lord of the Rings legendarium
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Fictional character ⓘ Hobbit ⓘ Hobbit of the Shire ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Lord of the Rings appendices
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (appendices) ⓘ
linked to:
The Lord of the Rings appendices
|
| canonicalStatus | Canonical Tolkien character ⓘ |
| creator | J. R. R. Tolkien ⓘ |
| culture | Hobbits of the Shire ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Shire-hobbit ⓘ |
| familyName | Gardner ⓘ |
| father | Samwise Gamgee ⓘ |
| gender | Male ⓘ |
| givenName | Tolman ⓘ |
| home | Shire ⓘ |
| language | Westron ⓘ |
| mother |
Rose Cotton
ⓘ
linked to:
Rosie Cotton
|
| nickname | Tom ⓘ |
| notableFamily |
Gamgee family
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Gardner family ⓘ |
| residence |
Bag End
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Shire ⓘ |
| sibling |
Bilbo Gardner
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Daisy Gardner ⓘ Elanor Gardner ⓘ Frodo Gardner ⓘ Goldilocks Gardner ⓘ Hamfast Gardner ⓘ Merry Gardner ⓘ Pippin Gardner ⓘ Primrose Gardner ⓘ Robin Gardner ⓘ Rose Gardner ⓘ Ruby Gardner ⓘ Tolman Gardner Jr. ⓘ |
| species | Hobbit ⓘ |
| universe | Middle-earth ⓘ |
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: Tolman Gardner Description of subject: Tolman Gardner is a hobbit of the Shire from J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, known as one of the children of Samwise Gamgee and Rosie Cotton.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.