Sam Beckett
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Sam Beckett is the time-traveling physicist who "leaps" into other people's lives to correct historical mistakes in the science fiction TV series Quantum Leap.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sam Beckett canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13871106 — 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: Sam Beckett Context triple: [Quantum Leap, hasMainCharacter, Sam Beckett]
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A.
Philip Halpert
Philip Halpert is the infant son of Jim Halpert and Pam Beesly on the U.S. television series "The Office."
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B.
Dick Diver
Dick Diver is a charismatic but ultimately tragic American psychiatrist whose personal and professional decline forms the emotional core of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel "Tender Is the Night."
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C.
Robert "Beau" Fielding
Robert "Beau" Fielding was a notorious English rake and courtier of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, famed for his extravagant lifestyle, good looks, and scandalous marriages.
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D.
Jerry Mulligan
Jerry Mulligan is the charismatic American ex-GI and aspiring painter living in postwar Paris who serves as the romantic lead in the musical film "An American in Paris."
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E.
Peter Walsh
Peter Walsh is a central character in Virginia Woolf’s novel "Mrs. Dalloway," known for his complex, introspective nature and his fraught, enduring attachment to Clarissa Dalloway.
- 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: Sam Beckett Target entity description: Sam Beckett is the time-traveling physicist who "leaps" into other people's lives to correct historical mistakes in the science fiction TV series Quantum Leap.
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A.
Philip Halpert
Philip Halpert is the infant son of Jim Halpert and Pam Beesly on the U.S. television series "The Office."
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B.
Dick Diver
Dick Diver is a charismatic but ultimately tragic American psychiatrist whose personal and professional decline forms the emotional core of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel "Tender Is the Night."
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C.
Robert "Beau" Fielding
Robert "Beau" Fielding was a notorious English rake and courtier of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, famed for his extravagant lifestyle, good looks, and scandalous marriages.
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D.
Jerry Mulligan
Jerry Mulligan is the charismatic American ex-GI and aspiring painter living in postwar Paris who serves as the romantic lead in the musical film "An American in Paris."
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E.
Peter Walsh
Peter Walsh is a central character in Virginia Woolf’s novel "Mrs. Dalloway," known for his complex, introspective nature and his fraught, enduring attachment to Clarissa Dalloway.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.