Sam Waterston
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Sam Waterston is an American actor known for his distinguished film, television, and stage career, including prominent roles in productions such as Law & Order and The Killing Fields.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sam Waterston canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3315592 — 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 Waterston Context triple: [The Great Gatsby (1974 film), starring, Sam Waterston]
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A.
Michael York
Michael York is an English actor known for his roles in films such as "Cabaret," "Logan's Run," and the "Austin Powers" series.
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B.
David Strathairn
David Strathairn is an American character actor known for his nuanced performances in film, television, and theater, including acclaimed roles in works like "Good Night, and Good Luck" and "Nomadland."
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C.
Tom Mison
Tom Mison is an English actor best known for playing Ichabod Crane in the supernatural drama television series "Sleepy Hollow."
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D.
Frank Langella
Frank Langella is an American actor renowned for his powerful stage and screen performances, including his acclaimed portrayal of Richard Nixon in "Frost/Nixon."
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E.
Ed Harris
Ed Harris is an American actor and filmmaker known for his intense, authoritative performances in films such as "The Truman Show," "Apollo 13," and "Pollock."
- 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 Waterston Target entity description: Sam Waterston is an American actor known for his distinguished film, television, and stage career, including prominent roles in productions such as Law & Order and The Killing Fields.
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A.
Michael York
Michael York is an English actor known for his roles in films such as "Cabaret," "Logan's Run," and the "Austin Powers" series.
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B.
David Strathairn
David Strathairn is an American character actor known for his nuanced performances in film, television, and theater, including acclaimed roles in works like "Good Night, and Good Luck" and "Nomadland."
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C.
Tom Mison
Tom Mison is an English actor best known for playing Ichabod Crane in the supernatural drama television series "Sleepy Hollow."
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D.
Frank Langella
Frank Langella is an American actor renowned for his powerful stage and screen performances, including his acclaimed portrayal of Richard Nixon in "Frost/Nixon."
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E.
Ed Harris
Ed Harris is an American actor and filmmaker known for his intense, authoritative performances in films such as "The Truman Show," "Apollo 13," and "Pollock."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
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 Waterston Description of subject: Sam Waterston is an American actor known for his distinguished film, television, and stage career, including prominent roles in productions such as Law & Order and The Killing Fields.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Great Gatsby (1974 film)