Sam McCloud
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Sam McCloud is a fictional deputy marshal from Taos, New Mexico, who stars as a fish-out-of-water lawman solving crimes in New York City in the 1970s television series "McCloud."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam McCloud canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5303889 — 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 McCloud Context triple: [McCloud, mainCharacter, Sam McCloud]
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A.
Charles Hudson
Charles Hudson was a 19th-century British mountaineer and Anglican clergyman known for his pioneering ascents in the Alps.
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B.
Sam Merlotte
Sam Merlotte is a shapeshifting bar owner and central figure in the supernatural drama series "True Blood."
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C.
Ray Smith
Ray Smith is the semi-autobiographical narrator and spiritual seeker in Jack Kerouac’s novel "The Dharma Bums," embodying the author’s explorations of Buddhism, nature, and Beat Generation ideals.
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D.
Aidan Murphy
Aidan Murphy is the Irish actor better known professionally as Aidan Gillen, recognized for roles in series like "The Wire" and "Game of Thrones."
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E.
Dan Osborn
Dan Osborn is a music industry figure best known as a founder of the independent record label Drag City.
- 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 McCloud Target entity description: Sam McCloud is a fictional deputy marshal from Taos, New Mexico, who stars as a fish-out-of-water lawman solving crimes in New York City in the 1970s television series "McCloud."
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A.
Charles Hudson
Charles Hudson was a 19th-century British mountaineer and Anglican clergyman known for his pioneering ascents in the Alps.
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B.
Sam Merlotte
Sam Merlotte is a shapeshifting bar owner and central figure in the supernatural drama series "True Blood."
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C.
Ray Smith
Ray Smith is the semi-autobiographical narrator and spiritual seeker in Jack Kerouac’s novel "The Dharma Bums," embodying the author’s explorations of Buddhism, nature, and Beat Generation ideals.
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D.
Aidan Murphy
Aidan Murphy is the Irish actor better known professionally as Aidan Gillen, recognized for roles in series like "The Wire" and "Game of Thrones."
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E.
Dan Osborn
Dan Osborn is a music industry figure best known as a founder of the independent record label Drag City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | McCloud ⓘ |
| associatedWith | NBC Mystery Movie ⓘ |
| basedInPartOn | Don Siegel film Coogan's Bluff ⓘ |
| characterArchetype | fish-out-of-water lawman ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
fearless
ⓘ
folksy ⓘ resourceful ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Herman Miller ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | McCloud ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
McCloud (1970 TV pilot)
ⓘ
linked to:
McCloud
|
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
police procedural ⓘ |
| hasColleague |
Chief Peter B. Clifford
ⓘ
linked to:
Chief Peter Clifford
Sergeant Joe Broadhurst ⓘ
linked to:
Sgt. Joe Broadhurst
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| lawEnforcementAgency |
Taos, New Mexico, sheriff's office
ⓘ
United States Marshal Service (fictional depiction) ⓘ
linked to:
United States Marshals Service
|
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| networkOfOriginalBroadcast | NBC ⓘ |
| notableFor | mixing Western and urban crime genres ⓘ |
| occupation |
deputy marshal
ⓘ
lawman ⓘ |
| personality |
charming
ⓘ
determined ⓘ easygoing ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin |
Taos, New Mexico
ⓘ
linked to:
Taos, New Mexico, United States
|
| portrayedBy | Dennis Weaver ⓘ |
| setting | 1970s New York City ⓘ |
| televisionDebutYear | 1970 ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfFiction | 1970s ⓘ |
| uses |
Western-style attire
ⓘ
cowboy hat ⓘ |
| usesMethod | unorthodox investigative techniques ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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 McCloud Description of subject: Sam McCloud is a fictional deputy marshal from Taos, New Mexico, who stars as a fish-out-of-water lawman solving crimes in New York City in the 1970s television series "McCloud."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.