Esmail
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Esmail is a surname most notably associated with American screenwriter, director, and producer Sam Esmail, creator of the television series "Mr. Robot."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Esmail canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10595540 — 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: Esmail Context triple: [Sam Esmail, familyName, Esmail]
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A.
Reza
Reza is the given name of Reza Shah Pahlavi, the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty and modernizing monarch of Iran in the early 20th century.
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B.
Hesam
Hesam is the birth name of Sam Asghari, the Iranian-American model, actor, and fitness trainer known for his marriage to Britney Spears.
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C.
Malek
Malek is a given name and surname of Arabic origin commonly used across the Middle East and other Muslim-majority regions.
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D.
Hamed
Hamed is a masculine given name commonly used in Arabic-speaking and Muslim-majority cultures.
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E.
Ehsan
Ehsan is a Persian given name commonly used for males in Iran and other Persian-speaking or Muslim-majority countries.
- 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: Esmail Target entity description: Esmail is a surname most notably associated with American screenwriter, director, and producer Sam Esmail, creator of the television series "Mr. Robot."
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A.
Reza
Reza is the given name of Reza Shah Pahlavi, the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty and modernizing monarch of Iran in the early 20th century.
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B.
Hesam
Hesam is the birth name of Sam Asghari, the Iranian-American model, actor, and fitness trainer known for his marriage to Britney Spears.
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C.
Malek
Malek is a given name and surname of Arabic origin commonly used across the Middle East and other Muslim-majority regions.
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D.
Hamed
Hamed is a masculine given name commonly used in Arabic-speaking and Muslim-majority cultures.
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E.
Ehsan
Ehsan is a Persian given name commonly used for males in Iran and other Persian-speaking or Muslim-majority countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
ⓘ
person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ surname ⓘ television producer ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| creator | Sam Esmail ⓘ |
| creatorOf | Mr. Robot ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1977-09-17 ⓘ |
| directorOf | Mr. Robot ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Egyptian ⓘ |
| executiveProducerOf | Mr. Robot ⓘ |
| firstAired | 2015 ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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psychological thriller ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | Arabic ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Esmaili
ⓘ
Ismail ⓘ |
| knownFor | creating the television series "Mr. Robot" ⓘ |
| lastAired | 2019 ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notablyBorneBy | Sam Esmail ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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actress ⓘ director ⓘ producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | USA Network ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
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linked to:
Hoboken
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| spouse | Emmy Rossum ⓘ |
| starred | Rami Malek ⓘ |
| usedAs | surname ⓘ |
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: Esmail Description of subject: Esmail is a surname most notably associated with American screenwriter, director, and producer Sam Esmail, creator of the television series "Mr. Robot."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.