Sam Frears
E870848
Sam Frears is a British actor and the son of acclaimed film director Stephen Frears.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam Frears canonical | 4 |
| Will Frears | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10513554 — 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 Frears Context triple: [Stephen Frears, hasChild, Sam Frears]
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A.
Bryan Forbes
Bryan Forbes was a British film director, screenwriter, and actor known for works such as "The Stepford Wives" and "Whistle Down the Wind."
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B.
Kelly Frears
Kelly Frears is the devoted girlfriend of FedEx executive Chuck Noland in the film "Cast Away," representing the life and love he longs to return to after being stranded.
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C.
Eddie Wright
Eddie Wright is known as one of the children of Hall of Fame college basketball coach Jay Wright.
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D.
Stephen Frears
Stephen Frears is a British film director known for acclaimed works such as "Dangerous Liaisons," "High Fidelity," and "Philomena."
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E.
Douglas Gerrard
Douglas Gerrard was an early 20th-century film actor and director who appeared in numerous silent-era 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 Frears Target entity description: Sam Frears is a British actor and the son of acclaimed film director Stephen Frears.
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A.
Bryan Forbes
Bryan Forbes was a British film director, screenwriter, and actor known for works such as "The Stepford Wives" and "Whistle Down the Wind."
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B.
Kelly Frears
Kelly Frears is the devoted girlfriend of FedEx executive Chuck Noland in the film "Cast Away," representing the life and love he longs to return to after being stranded.
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C.
Eddie Wright
Eddie Wright is known as one of the children of Hall of Fame college basketball coach Jay Wright.
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D.
Stephen Frears
Stephen Frears is a British film director known for acclaimed works such as "Dangerous Liaisons," "High Fidelity," and "Philomena."
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E.
Douglas Gerrard
Douglas Gerrard was an early 20th-century film actor and director who appeared in numerous silent-era productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British actor
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human ⓘ |
| child | Sam Frears ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| father | Stephen Frears ⓘ |
| name | Sam Frears ⓘ |
| nationality |
British
ⓘ
British ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film director ⓘ |
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 Frears Description of subject: Sam Frears is a British actor and the son of acclaimed film director Stephen Frears.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.