Tommy Webber
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Tommy Webber is a character in the sci-fi comedy film "Galaxy Quest," known as the former child actor who piloted the show's starship and must reprise his role in a real interstellar crisis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tommy Webber canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11171214 — 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 Webber Context triple: [Galaxy Quest, mainCharacter, Tommy Webber]
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A.
Tommy Leach
Tommy Leach was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball third baseman and outfielder best known for his speed, defensive skill, and starring role with the Pittsburgh Pirates, including in the first modern World Series in 1903.
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B.
Tommy Gormley
Tommy Gormley is a Scottish film assistant director and producer known for his work on major Hollywood productions such as "Star Trek" and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens."
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C.
Tommy Griffin
Tommy Griffin is an American former basketball player and coach best known as the father of NBA star Blake Griffin.
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D.
Tommy Aldridge
Tommy Aldridge is an American hard rock and heavy metal drummer renowned for his powerful double-bass technique and work with bands such as Whitesnake and Ozzy Osbourne.
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E.
Tommy Ross
Tommy Ross is a popular high school student in Stephen King’s horror novel "Carrie," known for his pivotal role in inviting Carrie White to the prom.
- 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 Webber Target entity description: Tommy Webber is a character in the sci-fi comedy film "Galaxy Quest," known as the former child actor who piloted the show's starship and must reprise his role in a real interstellar crisis.
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A.
Tommy Leach
Tommy Leach was an early 20th-century Major League Baseball third baseman and outfielder best known for his speed, defensive skill, and starring role with the Pittsburgh Pirates, including in the first modern World Series in 1903.
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B.
Tommy Gormley
Tommy Gormley is a Scottish film assistant director and producer known for his work on major Hollywood productions such as "Star Trek" and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens."
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C.
Tommy Griffin
Tommy Griffin is an American former basketball player and coach best known as the father of NBA star Blake Griffin.
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D.
Tommy Aldridge
Tommy Aldridge is an American hard rock and heavy metal drummer renowned for his powerful double-bass technique and work with bands such as Whitesnake and Ozzy Osbourne.
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E.
Tommy Ross
Tommy Ross is a popular high school student in Stephen King’s horror novel "Carrie," known for his pivotal role in inviting Carrie White to the prom.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Galaxy Quest ⓘ |
| appearsInYear | 1999 ⓘ |
| basedOn | archetype of a former child star from a science fiction TV series ⓘ |
| characterType |
comic relief
ⓘ
reluctant hero ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States (fictional context)
ⓘ
linked to:
United States (fictional setting)
|
| formerOccupation | child actor ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction comedy ⓘ |
| hasFictionalOccupation | starship helmsman ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | parodies child actors from classic space opera TV shows ⓘ |
| notableFor | piloting the starship on the in-universe TV show in Galaxy Quest ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
starship pilot ⓘ |
| partOf |
Galaxy Quest franchise
ⓘ
linked to:
Galaxy Quest
|
| portrayedBy | Daryl Mitchell ⓘ |
| roleInPlot | must reprise his piloting role during a real interstellar crisis ⓘ |
| workOfFictionType | film character ⓘ |
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 Webber Description of subject: Tommy Webber is a character in the sci-fi comedy film "Galaxy Quest," known as the former child actor who piloted the show's starship and must reprise his role in a real interstellar crisis.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Gwen DeMarco is the communications officer on the fictional ship
subject linked to:
Alexander Dane is a classically trained actor resentful of his TV role