Sample
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Sample is a surname most notably associated with Steven B. Sample, an American academic leader and former president of the University of Southern California.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sample canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6590062 — 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: Sample Context triple: [Steven B. Sample, familyName, Sample]
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A.
Sampla
Sampla is a town and municipal council in the Rohtak district of Haryana, India, known for its agricultural trade and proximity to the state capital region.
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B.
Samp
Samp is a common nickname for the Italian professional football club U.C. Sampdoria, based in Genoa and known for its blue, white, red, and black striped kit.
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C.
SAM
SAM is the commonly used abbreviation for the South Australian Museum, a major natural history and cultural institution located in Adelaide, Australia.
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D.
SAM
SAM is an analytical laboratory aboard NASA's Curiosity rover that studies Martian rocks, soil, and atmosphere to determine their chemical and organic composition.
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E.
Singel
Singel is a historic canal in Amsterdam that once served as the city’s medieval moat and now forms part of its iconic canal belt.
- 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: Sample Target entity description: Sample is a surname most notably associated with Steven B. Sample, an American academic leader and former president of the University of Southern California.
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A.
Sampla
Sampla is a town and municipal council in the Rohtak district of Haryana, India, known for its agricultural trade and proximity to the state capital region.
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B.
Samp
Samp is a common nickname for the Italian professional football club U.C. Sampdoria, based in Genoa and known for its blue, white, red, and black striped kit.
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C.
SAM
SAM is the commonly used abbreviation for the South Australian Museum, a major natural history and cultural institution located in Adelaide, Australia.
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D.
SAM
SAM is an analytical laboratory aboard NASA's Curiosity rover that studies Martian rocks, soil, and atmosphere to determine their chemical and organic composition.
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E.
Singel
Singel is a historic canal in Amsterdam that once served as the city’s medieval moat and now forms part of its iconic canal belt.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic administrator
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human ⓘ private research university ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Purdue University
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University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ⓘ |
| employer | University of Southern California ⓘ |
| familyName | Sample ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
engineering
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higher education administration ⓘ |
| genre | leadership literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Steven ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Steven B. Sample ⓘ |
| notableFor | transforming the University of Southern California into a leading research university ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Contrarian’s Guide to Leadership ⓘ |
| occupation |
electrical engineer
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professor ⓘ university president ⓘ |
| positionHeld | President of the University of Southern California ⓘ |
| usedAs | last name ⓘ |
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: Sample Description of subject: Sample is a surname most notably associated with Steven B. Sample, an American academic leader and former president of the University of Southern California.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.