Samuel Armstrong
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Samuel Armstrong was an American animator and film director best known for his work on classic Walt Disney productions, including segments of the animated feature "Fantasia."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Samuel Armstrong canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2632285 — 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: Samuel Armstrong Context triple: [Fantasia, director, Samuel Armstrong]
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A.
Robert Armstrong
Robert Armstrong is a common name shared by several notable individuals, including an American actor famous for his role in the 1933 film "King Kong" and a U.S. politician who served as a senator from Texas.
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B.
Thomas Armstrong
Thomas Armstrong is a name shared by several notable individuals, including figures in politics, literature, and the arts.
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C.
Ewart Brown
Ewart Brown is a Bermudian physician and politician who served as Premier of Bermuda from 2006 to 2010 as leader of the Progressive Labour Party.
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D.
Samuel Garbett
Samuel Garbett was an 18th-century English industrialist and merchant from Birmingham, known for his role in the early chemical industry and his involvement in the influential Lunar Society.
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E.
William Webb
William Webb was an Australian jurist who served as the chief judge of the post–World War II Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal.
- 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: Samuel Armstrong Target entity description: Samuel Armstrong was an American animator and film director best known for his work on classic Walt Disney productions, including segments of the animated feature "Fantasia."
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A.
Robert Armstrong
Robert Armstrong is a common name shared by several notable individuals, including an American actor famous for his role in the 1933 film "King Kong" and a U.S. politician who served as a senator from Texas.
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B.
Thomas Armstrong
Thomas Armstrong is a name shared by several notable individuals, including figures in politics, literature, and the arts.
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C.
Ewart Brown
Ewart Brown is a Bermudian physician and politician who served as Premier of Bermuda from 2006 to 2010 as leader of the Progressive Labour Party.
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D.
Samuel Garbett
Samuel Garbett was an 18th-century English industrialist and merchant from Birmingham, known for his role in the early chemical industry and his involvement in the influential Lunar Society.
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E.
William Webb
William Webb was an Australian jurist who served as the chief judge of the post–World War II Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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animator ⓘ film director ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Walt Disney Productions ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
animated film
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film direction ⓘ |
| genre | animation ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
directing segments of the animated feature Fantasia
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work on classic Walt Disney animated productions ⓘ |
| notableWork | Fantasia ⓘ |
| occupation |
animator
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film director ⓘ |
| workLocation |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
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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: Samuel Armstrong Description of subject: Samuel Armstrong was an American animator and film director best known for his work on classic Walt Disney productions, including segments of the animated feature "Fantasia."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.