Sam Emerson
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Sam Emerson is a teenage protagonist in the 1987 horror-comedy film "The Lost Boys," known for battling a gang of vampires alongside his older brother in the coastal town of Santa Carla.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam Emerson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8351584 — 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 Emerson Context triple: [The Lost Boys, mainCharacter, Sam Emerson]
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A.
Ian Meadows
Ian Meadows is an Australian actor and writer known for his work in television, film, and theatre.
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B.
Andrew Lesnie
Andrew Lesnie was an Australian cinematographer best known for his Oscar-winning work on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
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C.
Dan Talbot
Dan Talbot was an influential American film distributor and exhibitor known for championing foreign and independent cinema in the United States.
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D.
Mark Isham
Mark Isham is an American composer and musician known for his atmospheric film scores and work in jazz and electronic music.
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E.
Stephen Harrison
Stephen Harrison is a film editor known for his work on classic British cinema, including the historical drama "The Private Life of Henry VIII."
- 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 Emerson Target entity description: Sam Emerson is a teenage protagonist in the 1987 horror-comedy film "The Lost Boys," known for battling a gang of vampires alongside his older brother in the coastal town of Santa Carla.
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A.
Ian Meadows
Ian Meadows is an Australian actor and writer known for his work in television, film, and theatre.
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B.
Andrew Lesnie
Andrew Lesnie was an Australian cinematographer best known for his Oscar-winning work on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
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C.
Dan Talbot
Dan Talbot was an influential American film distributor and exhibitor known for championing foreign and independent cinema in the United States.
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D.
Mark Isham
Mark Isham is an American composer and musician known for his atmospheric film scores and work in jazz and electronic music.
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E.
Stephen Harrison
Stephen Harrison is a film editor known for his work on classic British cinema, including the historical drama "The Private Life of Henry VIII."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| ageInStory | teenager ⓘ |
| alliesWith |
Alan Frog
NERFINISHED
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Edgar Frog NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Emerson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Lost Boys NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | horror comedy film ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginWork | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator |
James Jeremias
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Janice Fischer NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeffrey Boam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Emerson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fightsAgainst |
David’s vampire gang
ⓘ
vampires ⓘ |
| givenName | Sam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Grandpa Emerson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lucy Emerson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Michael Emerson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
protagonist
ⓘ
vampire hunter ⓘ |
| notableFor | battling a gang of vampires in Santa Carla ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise | The Lost Boys franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Corey Haim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryMedium | film ⓘ |
| residesInFictionalLocation | Santa Carla NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingOfWork | fictional California coastal town ⓘ |
| siblingRelation | younger brother of Michael Emerson ⓘ |
| yearOfWorkRelease | 1987 ⓘ |
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 Emerson Description of subject: Sam Emerson is a teenage protagonist in the 1987 horror-comedy film "The Lost Boys," known for battling a gang of vampires alongside his older brother in the coastal town of Santa Carla.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.