Sam Wood
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Sam Wood is a small-town police officer who becomes entangled in a racially charged murder investigation in John Ball’s novel "In the Heat of the Night."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sam Wood canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10856110 — 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 Wood Context triple: [In the Heat of the Night (novel), character, Sam Wood]
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A.
Sam Wood
Sam Wood was an American film director best known for his work during Hollywood’s Golden Age, including classics such as "A Night at the Opera," "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," and "The Pride of the Yankees."
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B.
Roger Spottiswoode
Roger Spottiswoode is a British-Canadian film director and editor known for directing a range of Hollywood features, including the James Bond film "Tomorrow Never Dies."
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C.
Lee M. Russell
Lee M. Russell was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Mississippi in the early 20th century.
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D.
Christopher Landon
Christopher Landon is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for his work on the "Paranormal Activity" series and the "Happy Death Day" films.
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E.
Abby Mann
Abby Mann was an American screenwriter and producer best known for his socially conscious dramas, including the Academy Award–winning screenplay for "Judgment at Nuremberg."
- 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 Wood Target entity description: Sam Wood is a small-town police officer who becomes entangled in a racially charged murder investigation in John Ball’s novel "In the Heat of the Night."
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A.
Sam Wood
Sam Wood was an American film director best known for his work during Hollywood’s Golden Age, including classics such as "A Night at the Opera," "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," and "The Pride of the Yankees."
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B.
Roger Spottiswoode
Roger Spottiswoode is a British-Canadian film director and editor known for directing a range of Hollywood features, including the James Bond film "Tomorrow Never Dies."
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C.
Lee M. Russell
Lee M. Russell was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Mississippi in the early 20th century.
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D.
Christopher Landon
Christopher Landon is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for his work on the "Paranormal Activity" series and the "Happy Death Day" films.
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E.
Abby Mann
Abby Mann was an American screenwriter and producer best known for his socially conscious dramas, including the Academy Award–winning screenplay for "Judgment at Nuremberg."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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police officer ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
novel "In the Heat of the Night"
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linked to:
In the Heat of the Night (novel)
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| associatedWithTheme |
racial tension in the American South
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racism ⓘ small-town policing ⓘ |
| characterOrigin | American literature ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| creator | John Ball ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
"In the Heat of the Night" series
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linked to:
In the Heat of the Night (TV series)
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| firstAppearance |
novel "In the Heat of the Night" (1965)
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linked to:
In the Heat of the Night (novel)
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| genreOfWorkAppearedIn |
crime fiction
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mystery fiction ⓘ |
| hasColleague | Virgil Tibbs ⓘ |
| hasEmployer |
Wells police department
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linked to:
Wells Police Department
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| involvedIn | racially charged murder investigation ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | major character in "In the Heat of the Night" ⓘ |
| occupation | police officer ⓘ |
| workLocation |
small town of Wells, South Carolina
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linked to:
fictional town of Wells, South Carolina
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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 Wood Description of subject: Sam Wood is a small-town police officer who becomes entangled in a racially charged murder investigation in John Ball’s novel "In the Heat of the Night."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.