Sam Esmail
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Sam Esmail is an American screenwriter, director, and producer best known as the creator of the television series "Mr. Robot" and for his work on various high-profile film and TV projects.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sam Esmail canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2271487 — 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 Esmail Context triple: [Grace Gummer, hasWorkedWith, Sam Esmail]
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A.
Dan Goor
Dan Goor is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating the comedy series "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" and his work on shows like "Parks and Recreation."
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B.
Damon Lindelof
Damon Lindelof is an American screenwriter and producer best known as the co-creator of the television series "Lost" and for his work on major science fiction and genre films and shows.
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C.
Alan Ball
Alan Ball is an American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for creating the television series "Six Feet Under" and "True Blood" and for writing the Oscar-winning film "American Beauty."
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D.
Carlton Cuse
Carlton Cuse is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating and showrunning series such as Lost, Bates Motel, and other high-profile genre dramas.
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E.
Kurt Sutter
Kurt Sutter is an American screenwriter, producer, director, and actor best known for creating the FX outlaw biker drama series "Sons of Anarchy."
- 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 Esmail Target entity description: Sam Esmail is an American screenwriter, director, and producer best known as the creator of the television series "Mr. Robot" and for his work on various high-profile film and TV projects.
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A.
Dan Goor
Dan Goor is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating the comedy series "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" and his work on shows like "Parks and Recreation."
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B.
Damon Lindelof
Damon Lindelof is an American screenwriter and producer best known as the co-creator of the television series "Lost" and for his work on major science fiction and genre films and shows.
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C.
Alan Ball
Alan Ball is an American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for creating the television series "Six Feet Under" and "True Blood" and for writing the Oscar-winning film "American Beauty."
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D.
Carlton Cuse
Carlton Cuse is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating and showrunning series such as Lost, Bates Motel, and other high-profile genre dramas.
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E.
Kurt Sutter
Kurt Sutter is an American screenwriter, producer, director, and actor best known for creating the FX outlaw biker drama series "Sons of Anarchy."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Sam Esmail Description of subject: Sam Esmail is an American screenwriter, director, and producer best known as the creator of the television series "Mr. Robot" and for his work on various high-profile film and TV projects.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Dominique DiPierro