Tom Toole
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Tom Toole is a notable character in Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s Victorian Gothic novel "The House by the Churchyard," contributing to its intricate mystery and dark, atmospheric narrative.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom Toole canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11203680 — 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 Toole Context triple: [The House by the Churchyard, hasNotableCharacter, Tom Toole]
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A.
Paul Toole
Paul Toole is an Australian National Party politician who served as Deputy Premier of New South Wales and has held several senior ministerial roles in the state government.
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B.
Tom Cheek
Tom Cheek was a celebrated Canadian baseball broadcaster best known as the longtime radio voice of the Toronto Blue Jays.
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C.
Glen Tullman
Glen Tullman is an American healthcare technology entrepreneur and executive best known for leading and building major digital health companies, including Allscripts.
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D.
Tom Wicker
Tom Wicker was an influential American journalist and author best known for his political reporting and long tenure as a columnist and editor at The New York Times.
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E.
Ron Funches
Ron Funches is an American stand-up comedian and actor known for his warm, laid-back delivery and distinctive voice work in animated films and television.
- 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 Toole Target entity description: Tom Toole is a notable character in Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s Victorian Gothic novel "The House by the Churchyard," contributing to its intricate mystery and dark, atmospheric narrative.
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A.
Paul Toole
Paul Toole is an Australian National Party politician who served as Deputy Premier of New South Wales and has held several senior ministerial roles in the state government.
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B.
Tom Cheek
Tom Cheek was a celebrated Canadian baseball broadcaster best known as the longtime radio voice of the Toronto Blue Jays.
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C.
Glen Tullman
Glen Tullman is an American healthcare technology entrepreneur and executive best known for leading and building major digital health companies, including Allscripts.
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D.
Tom Wicker
Tom Wicker was an influential American journalist and author best known for his political reporting and long tenure as a columnist and editor at The New York Times.
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E.
Ron Funches
Ron Funches is an American stand-up comedian and actor known for his warm, laid-back delivery and distinctive voice work in animated films and television.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The House by the Churchyard ⓘ |
| associatedWith | The House by the Churchyard mystery plot ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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linked to:
Sheridan Le Fanu
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| firstAppearance | The House by the Churchyard ⓘ |
| genre |
Gothic fiction
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Victorian literature ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | Irish ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 19th-century literature ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
contributes to dark atmosphere
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contributes to mystery ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | supporting character ⓘ |
| partOf |
Victorian Gothic novel tradition
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linked to:
Gothic literature
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| publicationEra | Victorian era ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | Chapelizod ⓘ |
| workAuthor |
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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linked to:
Sheridan Le Fanu
|
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 Toole Description of subject: Tom Toole is a notable character in Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s Victorian Gothic novel "The House by the Churchyard," contributing to its intricate mystery and dark, atmospheric narrative.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.