Sam Trammell
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Sam Trammell is an American actor best known for his role as the shapeshifter Sam Merlotte on the HBO series "True Blood."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sam Trammell canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4505049 — 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 Trammell Context triple: [True Blood, leadActor, Sam Trammell]
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A.
Todd Worrell
Todd Worrell is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known as the St. Louis Cardinals’ hard-throwing closer of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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B.
Bart Andrus
Bart Andrus is an American football coach best known for his work in NFL Europe and various professional and collegiate coaching roles.
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C.
Paul Molitor
Paul Molitor is a Hall of Fame American baseball player renowned as an elite contact hitter and versatile infielder/designated hitter, primarily with the Milwaukee Brewers and Toronto Blue Jays.
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D.
Eric Davis
Eric Davis is a former Major League Baseball outfielder best known for his star tenure with the Cincinnati Reds, combining elite power, speed, and defense during the 1980s and early 1990s.
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E.
Don Saleski
Don Saleski is a former NHL right winger best known for his gritty, physical play with the Philadelphia Flyers during their 1970s "Broad Street Bullies" era.
- 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 Trammell Target entity description: Sam Trammell is an American actor best known for his role as the shapeshifter Sam Merlotte on the HBO series "True Blood."
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A.
Todd Worrell
Todd Worrell is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known as the St. Louis Cardinals’ hard-throwing closer of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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B.
Bart Andrus
Bart Andrus is an American football coach best known for his work in NFL Europe and various professional and collegiate coaching roles.
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C.
Paul Molitor
Paul Molitor is a Hall of Fame American baseball player renowned as an elite contact hitter and versatile infielder/designated hitter, primarily with the Milwaukee Brewers and Toronto Blue Jays.
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D.
Eric Davis
Eric Davis is a former Major League Baseball outfielder best known for his star tenure with the Cincinnati Reds, combining elite power, speed, and defense during the 1980s and early 1990s.
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E.
Don Saleski
Don Saleski is a former NHL right winger best known for his gritty, physical play with the Philadelphia Flyers during their 1970s "Broad Street Bullies" era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
AVPR: Aliens vs Predator – Requiem
NERFINISHED
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Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem NERFINISHED ⓘ Beat NERFINISHED ⓘ Dexter NERFINISHED ⓘ Homeland NERFINISHED ⓘ Judging Amy NERFINISHED ⓘ Law & Order: Criminal Intent NERFINISHED ⓘ Maximum Bob NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fault in Our Stars NERFINISHED ⓘ This Is Us NERFINISHED ⓘ True Blood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1969-01-29 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Brown University
ⓘ
University of Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | HBO ⓘ |
| eyeColor | blue ⓘ |
| familyName | Trammell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
drama television
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fantasy television ⓘ |
| givenName | Sam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hairColor | brown ⓘ |
| hasChild | twin sons ⓘ |
| knownFor | True Blood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Sam Trammell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole | Sam Merlotte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | stage performance in "Ah, Wilderness!" ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayed | Sam Merlotte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| Sam Merlotte_appearsIn | True Blood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Missy Yager NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1990s–present ⓘ |
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 Trammell Description of subject: Sam Trammell is an American actor best known for his role as the shapeshifter Sam Merlotte on the HBO series "True Blood."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.