Sam Ball
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Sam Ball is an actor known for his supporting role in the romantic comedy film "13 Going on 30."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam Ball canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8129954 — 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 Ball Context triple: [13 Going on 30, castMember, Sam Ball]
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A.
Paul Ballard
Paul Ballard is a determined FBI agent in the television series "Dollhouse" who becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind the mysterious Dollhouse organization.
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B.
Fred Ball
Fred Ball is a film producer best known for his work on the cult classic crime-romance movie "True Romance."
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C.
Martin Ball
Martin Ball is a British actor known for his work in theatre, television, and musical productions in the UK.
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D.
Sam Baldwin
Sam Baldwin is the widowed architect and devoted father portrayed by Tom Hanks in the romantic comedy film "Sleepless in Seattle."
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E.
Bille Brown
Bille Brown was an Australian actor and playwright known for his work in theatre, film, and television, including roles in international productions.
- 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 Ball Target entity description: Sam Ball is an actor known for his supporting role in the romantic comedy film "13 Going on 30."
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A.
Paul Ballard
Paul Ballard is a determined FBI agent in the television series "Dollhouse" who becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind the mysterious Dollhouse organization.
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B.
Fred Ball
Fred Ball is a film producer best known for his work on the cult classic crime-romance movie "True Romance."
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C.
Martin Ball
Martin Ball is a British actor known for his work in theatre, television, and musical productions in the UK.
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D.
Sam Baldwin
Sam Baldwin is the widowed architect and devoted father portrayed by Tom Hanks in the romantic comedy film "Sleepless in Seattle."
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E.
Bille Brown
Bille Brown was an Australian actor and playwright known for his work in theatre, film, and television, including roles in international productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre | romantic comedy film ⓘ |
| knownFor | supporting role in 13 Going on 30 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | 13 Going on 30 ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| participatedIn | 13 Going on 30 ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
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 Ball Description of subject: Sam Ball is an actor known for his supporting role in the romantic comedy film "13 Going on 30."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
romantic comedy film 13 Going on 30