Sam Reid
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Sam Reid is an Australian actor known for his work in film and television, including roles in period dramas and literary adaptations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam Reid canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T499285 — 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 Reid Context triple: [The Railway Man, starring, Sam Reid]
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A.
John Spencer
John Spencer was an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as White House Chief of Staff Leo McGarry on the television drama "The West Wing."
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B.
Kris Marshall
Kris Marshall is a British actor best known for his comedic and romantic roles in film and television, including prominent parts in Love Actually and the sitcom My Family.
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C.
Greg Wise
Greg Wise is a British actor and producer known for roles in period dramas such as "Sense and Sensibility" and for his long-term partnership with actress and writer Emma Thompson.
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D.
Kit Foster
Kit Foster is one of the children of acclaimed American actress and filmmaker Jodie Foster.
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E.
Don Gummer
Don Gummer is an American sculptor known for his abstract, large-scale works and for his long marriage to actress Meryl Streep.
- 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 Reid Target entity description: Sam Reid is an Australian actor known for his work in film and television, including roles in period dramas and literary adaptations.
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A.
John Spencer
John Spencer was an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as White House Chief of Staff Leo McGarry on the television drama "The West Wing."
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B.
Kris Marshall
Kris Marshall is a British actor best known for his comedic and romantic roles in film and television, including prominent parts in Love Actually and the sitcom My Family.
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C.
Greg Wise
Greg Wise is a British actor and producer known for roles in period dramas such as "Sense and Sensibility" and for his long-term partnership with actress and writer Emma Thompson.
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D.
Kit Foster
Kit Foster is one of the children of acclaimed American actress and filmmaker Jodie Foster.
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E.
Don Gummer
Don Gummer is an American sculptor known for his abstract, large-scale works and for his long marriage to actress Meryl Streep.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Australia ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization |
literary adaptation
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period drama ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
roles in literary adaptations
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roles in period dramas ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Prime Suspect
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surface form:
DI Len Bradfield in Prime Suspect 1973
Dale Jennings in The Newsreader ⓘ John Davinier in Belle (2013 film) ⓘ Lestat de Lioncourt in Interview with the Vampire (TV series) ⓘ Lieutenant Philip Armstrong in The Railway Man (2013 film) ⓘ Mr. Luke in Lambs of God ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Anonymous (2011 film)
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Belle (2013 film) ⓘ Interview with the Vampire ⓘ
surface form:
Interview with the Vampire (TV series)
Lambs of God ⓘ Prime Suspect ⓘ
surface form:
Prime Suspect 1973
The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson ⓘ The Newsreader ⓘ The Railway Man ⓘ
surface form:
The Railway Man (2013 film)
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| occupation | actor ⓘ |
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 Reid Description of subject: Sam Reid is an Australian actor known for his work in film and television, including roles in period dramas and literary adaptations.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lestat de Lioncourt (Interview with the Vampire TV series)