Will Sampson
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Will Sampson was a Native American actor and painter best known for his powerful portrayal of Chief Bromden in the film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Will Sampson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2173163 — 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: Will Sampson Context triple: [One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, starring, Will Sampson]
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A.
Steve Sampson
Steve Sampson is an American soccer coach best known for managing the U.S. men's national team in the 1998 FIFA World Cup and later coaching in Major League Soccer.
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B.
Roy Hinson
Roy Hinson is a former American professional basketball player and standout forward from Rutgers University who played several seasons in the NBA during the 1980s.
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C.
Kenneth Parcell
Kenneth Parcell is a relentlessly cheerful, naive NBC page on the sitcom "30 Rock," known for his unwavering optimism, Southern charm, and bizarrely long-lived backstory.
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D.
Dohn Norwood
Dohn Norwood is an American actor best known for his role as the steadfast railroad worker Psalms Jackson in the Western television drama "Hell on Wheels."
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E.
Michele Bullock
Michele Bullock is an Australian economist and central banker who serves as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, overseeing the country’s monetary policy.
- 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: Will Sampson Target entity description: Will Sampson was a Native American actor and painter best known for his powerful portrayal of Chief Bromden in the film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
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A.
Steve Sampson
Steve Sampson is an American soccer coach best known for managing the U.S. men's national team in the 1998 FIFA World Cup and later coaching in Major League Soccer.
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B.
Roy Hinson
Roy Hinson is a former American professional basketball player and standout forward from Rutgers University who played several seasons in the NBA during the 1980s.
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C.
Kenneth Parcell
Kenneth Parcell is a relentlessly cheerful, naive NBC page on the sitcom "30 Rock," known for his unwavering optimism, Southern charm, and bizarrely long-lived backstory.
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D.
Dohn Norwood
Dohn Norwood is an American actor best known for his role as the steadfast railroad worker Psalms Jackson in the Western television drama "Hell on Wheels."
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E.
Michele Bullock
Michele Bullock is an Australian economist and central banker who serves as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, overseeing the country’s monetary policy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Will Sampson Description of subject: Will Sampson was a Native American actor and painter best known for his powerful portrayal of Chief Bromden in the film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.