Samuel S. Hinds
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Samuel S. Hinds was an American actor and former lawyer best known for his supporting roles in classic 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films, including "It's a Wonderful Life."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Samuel S. Hinds canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2546662 — 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 S. Hinds Context triple: [Stage Door, portrayedBy, Samuel S. Hinds]
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A.
William W. Bibb
William W. Bibb was an American physician and politician who became the first governor of the state of Alabama after previously serving as a U.S. congressman and senator from Georgia.
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B.
Nathaniel P. Davis
Nathaniel P. Davis was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Hungary.
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C.
Joshua R. Giddings
Joshua R. Giddings was a prominent 19th-century American abolitionist and long-serving U.S. Congressman from Ohio known for his fierce opposition to slavery and the slave trade.
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D.
Mordecai Brown
Mordecai Brown was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher, nicknamed "Three Finger," renowned for his exceptional control and success with the Chicago Cubs in the early 20th century.
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E.
George Alexander Stevens
George Alexander Stevens was an 18th-century English comedian, actor, and writer best known for his popular satirical lecture series "A Lecture on Heads."
- 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 S. Hinds Target entity description: Samuel S. Hinds was an American actor and former lawyer best known for his supporting roles in classic 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films, including "It's a Wonderful Life."
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A.
William W. Bibb
William W. Bibb was an American physician and politician who became the first governor of the state of Alabama after previously serving as a U.S. congressman and senator from Georgia.
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B.
Nathaniel P. Davis
Nathaniel P. Davis was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Hungary.
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C.
Joshua R. Giddings
Joshua R. Giddings was a prominent 19th-century American abolitionist and long-serving U.S. Congressman from Ohio known for his fierce opposition to slavery and the slave trade.
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D.
Mordecai Brown
Mordecai Brown was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher, nicknamed "Three Finger," renowned for his exceptional control and success with the Chicago Cubs in the early 20th century.
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E.
George Alexander Stevens
George Alexander Stevens was an 18th-century English comedian, actor, and writer best known for his popular satirical lecture series "A Lecture on Heads."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pneumonia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1875-04-04 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1948-10-13 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
ⓘ
New York Law School NERFINISHED ⓘ Phillips Andover Academy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Columbia Pictures
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
RKO Radio Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ Universal Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Hinds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film acting
ⓘ
law ⓘ theatre acting ⓘ |
| givenName | Samuel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Samuel S. Hinds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | supporting roles in 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
It's a Wonderful Life
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ The Invisible Man's Revenge NERFINISHED ⓘ The Raven (1935 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ You Can't Take It with You NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ |
| performedIn |
Buck Privates
NERFINISHED
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It's a Wonderful Life NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr. Smith Goes to Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ Ride 'Em Cowboy NERFINISHED ⓘ The Egg and I NERFINISHED ⓘ The Invisible Man's Revenge NERFINISHED ⓘ The Naughty Nineties NERFINISHED ⓘ The Raven (1935 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Strange Case of Doctor Rx NERFINISHED ⓘ The Suspect (1944 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ You Can't Take It with You NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Brooklyn, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Pasadena, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayed |
Paul Sycamore in You Can't Take It with You
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Peter Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life NERFINISHED ⓘ Senator Joseph Paine's colleague in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Dorothy Cruickshank NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1932–1948 ⓘ |
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 S. Hinds Description of subject: Samuel S. Hinds was an American actor and former lawyer best known for his supporting roles in classic 1930s and 1940s Hollywood films, including "It's a Wonderful Life."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.