Samantha Spade
E650029
Samantha Spade is the tough, intuitive FBI missing-persons agent portrayed by Poppy Montgomery on the television series "Without a Trace."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Samantha Spade canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7234471 — 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: Samantha Spade Context triple: [Poppy Montgomery, knownForCharacter, Samantha Spade]
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A.
Della Street
Della Street is the loyal and highly capable secretary and confidante of fictional defense attorney Perry Mason in Erle Stanley Gardner’s novels and their adaptations.
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B.
Sam Spade
Sam Spade is a hard-boiled private detective and the iconic protagonist of Dashiell Hammett’s novel "The Maltese Falcon," widely regarded as a defining figure in American noir fiction.
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C.
Kate Warne
Kate Warne was the first female detective in the United States, renowned for her pioneering investigative work with the Pinkerton National Detective Agency and her role in foiling an assassination plot against Abraham Lincoln.
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D.
Philip Marlow
Philip Marlow is the fictional, psychologically complex mystery writer and patient at the center of Dennis Potter’s television serial "The Singing Detective," where his hallucinations and noir fantasies intertwine with his real-life illness.
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E.
Philip Marlowe
Philip Marlowe is a hardboiled, wisecracking private detective created by Raymond Chandler and featured in a series of classic American crime novels and film noir adaptations.
- 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: Samantha Spade Target entity description: Samantha Spade is the tough, intuitive FBI missing-persons agent portrayed by Poppy Montgomery on the television series "Without a Trace."
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A.
Della Street
Della Street is the loyal and highly capable secretary and confidante of fictional defense attorney Perry Mason in Erle Stanley Gardner’s novels and their adaptations.
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B.
Sam Spade
Sam Spade is a hard-boiled private detective and the iconic protagonist of Dashiell Hammett’s novel "The Maltese Falcon," widely regarded as a defining figure in American noir fiction.
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C.
Kate Warne
Kate Warne was the first female detective in the United States, renowned for her pioneering investigative work with the Pinkerton National Detective Agency and her role in foiling an assassination plot against Abraham Lincoln.
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D.
Philip Marlow
Philip Marlow is the fictional, psychologically complex mystery writer and patient at the center of Dennis Potter’s television serial "The Singing Detective," where his hallucinations and noir fantasies intertwine with his real-life illness.
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E.
Philip Marlowe
Philip Marlowe is a hardboiled, wisecracking private detective created by Raymond Chandler and featured in a series of classic American crime novels and film noir adaptations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Without a Trace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedInFictionalLocation | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creatorOfWork | Hank Steinberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Federal Bureau of Investigation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceIn | Without a Trace season 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | crime drama television series ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | investigating missing persons cases ⓘ |
| networkOfWork | CBS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
intuitive
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tough ⓘ |
| occupation |
FBI agent
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missing-persons agent ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalUniverse | Without a Trace universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Poppy Montgomery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sharesUniverseWith |
Danny Taylor
NERFINISHED
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Jack Malone NERFINISHED ⓘ Martin Fitzgerald NERFINISHED ⓘ Vivian Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teamRole | senior agent ⓘ |
| worksFor | FBI Missing Persons Unit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Samantha Spade Description of subject: Samantha Spade is the tough, intuitive FBI missing-persons agent portrayed by Poppy Montgomery on the television series "Without a Trace."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.