Sam Bowden (character from the novel "The Executioners")
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Sam Bowden is the principled small-town lawyer and family man who becomes the target of a vengeful ex-convict in John D. MacDonald’s thriller novel "The Executioners."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sam Bowden (character from the novel "The Executioners") canonical | 1 |
| Sam Bowden (character in 1991 film Cape Fear) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10809019 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sam Bowden (character from the novel "The Executioners") Context triple: [Gregory Peck as Sam Bowden, basedOn, Sam Bowden (character from the novel "The Executioners")]
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A.
Ned Rawlins
Ned Rawlins is a character in Robert Silverberg’s science fiction novel "The Man in the Maze," involved in the story’s exploration of alien contact and human isolation.
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B.
Deputy U.S. Marshal Philip Gerard
Deputy U.S. Marshal Philip Gerard is the relentless lawman character from the 1960s television series "The Fugitive," obsessed with capturing Dr. Richard Kimble.
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C.
Doug Drummond
Doug Drummond is a Canadian municipal politician who served as mayor of the city of Burnaby, British Columbia.
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D.
John Read
John Read is a relatively obscure individual whose primary distinction is sharing the surname associated with the Read family name.
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E.
Vaughn McKoy
Vaughn McKoy is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the science-fiction drama series "FlashForward."
- 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 Bowden (character from the novel "The Executioners") Target entity description: Sam Bowden is the principled small-town lawyer and family man who becomes the target of a vengeful ex-convict in John D. MacDonald’s thriller novel "The Executioners."
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A.
Ned Rawlins
Ned Rawlins is a character in Robert Silverberg’s science fiction novel "The Man in the Maze," involved in the story’s exploration of alien contact and human isolation.
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B.
Deputy U.S. Marshal Philip Gerard
Deputy U.S. Marshal Philip Gerard is the relentless lawman character from the 1960s television series "The Fugitive," obsessed with capturing Dr. Richard Kimble.
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C.
Doug Drummond
Doug Drummond is a Canadian municipal politician who served as mayor of the city of Burnaby, British Columbia.
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D.
John Read
John Read is a relatively obscure individual whose primary distinction is sharing the surname associated with the Read family name.
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E.
Vaughn McKoy
Vaughn McKoy is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the science-fiction drama series "FlashForward."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
Sam Bowden (character in 1962 film Cape Fear)
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linked to:
Gregory Peck as Sam Bowden
Sam Bowden (character in 1991 film Cape Fear) ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Cape Fear (1962 film)
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Cape Fear (1991 film) ⓘ The Executioners ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
legal ethics
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vigilante threat ⓘ |
| backstoryEvent | testified against Max Cady in court ⓘ |
| causeOfConflict | his testimony helped send Max Cady to prison ⓘ |
| centralThemeRelation | represents law and moral order ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
ethical
ⓘ
family-oriented ⓘ law-abiding ⓘ principled ⓘ |
| conflictType | stalked by vengeful ex-convict ⓘ |
| creator | John D. MacDonald ⓘ |
| familyRole |
father
ⓘ
husband ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
The Executioners (1957 novel)
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linked to:
The Executioners
|
| genreContext | thriller fiction ⓘ |
| hasEnemy | Max Cady ⓘ |
| literaryGenreOfWork | crime thriller ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | lawful good ⓘ |
| name | Sam Bowden ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | family man under siege ⓘ |
| nationality | American (fictional) ⓘ |
| occupation |
attorney
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ |
| protects | his family ⓘ |
| residence | small town in the American South ⓘ |
| roleInWork | protagonist of The Executioners ⓘ |
| settingOfActions | small Southern town ⓘ |
| targetOf | Max Cady's revenge ⓘ |
| threatenedBy | Max Cady ⓘ |
| threatens | Max Cady's sense of vengeance by upholding the law ⓘ |
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 Bowden (character from the novel "The Executioners") Description of subject: Sam Bowden is the principled small-town lawyer and family man who becomes the target of a vengeful ex-convict in John D. MacDonald’s thriller novel "The Executioners."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Sam Bowden (character from the novel "The Executioners")
linked to: Sam Bowden (character from the novel "The Executioners")