Sam Oliver
E1031478
Sam Oliver is the hapless young man who becomes a soul-collecting bounty hunter for the Devil in the supernatural comedy TV series "Reaper."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam Oliver canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13221911 — 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 Oliver Context triple: [Reaper, mainCharacter, Sam Oliver]
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A.
Guy Oliver
Guy Oliver was an American character actor of the silent film era who appeared in numerous early 20th-century motion pictures.
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B.
Gregory Jacobs
Gregory Jacobs is an American film producer and director known for his longtime collaboration with Steven Soderbergh on numerous critically acclaimed movies.
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C.
Gregory Jacobs
Gregory Jacobs is an American rapper and producer better known by his stage name Shock G, the frontman of Digital Underground and a key figure in West Coast hip hop.
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D.
Steven Dillingham
Steven Dillingham is an American government official who served as Director of the U.S. Census Bureau during the 2020 United States census.
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E.
Patrick G. Jackson
Patrick G. Jackson is an American surgeon and academic physician best known as the husband of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
- 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 Oliver Target entity description: Sam Oliver is the hapless young man who becomes a soul-collecting bounty hunter for the Devil in the supernatural comedy TV series "Reaper."
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A.
Guy Oliver
Guy Oliver was an American character actor of the silent film era who appeared in numerous early 20th-century motion pictures.
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B.
Gregory Jacobs
Gregory Jacobs is an American rapper and producer better known by his stage name Shock G, the frontman of Digital Underground and a key figure in West Coast hip hop.
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C.
Gregory Jacobs
Gregory Jacobs is an American film producer and director known for his longtime collaboration with Steven Soderbergh on numerous critically acclaimed movies.
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D.
Steven Dillingham
Steven Dillingham is an American government official who served as Director of the U.S. Census Bureau during the 2020 United States census.
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E.
Patrick G. Jackson
Patrick G. Jackson is an American surgeon and academic physician best known as the husband of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| ability | track escaped souls ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Reaper ⓘ |
| appearsInSeason |
Reaper season 1
ⓘ
Reaper season 2 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
contracts with the Devil
ⓘ
escaped souls from Hell ⓘ |
| basedIn | United States television fiction ⓘ |
| characterArc | reluctantly accepts role as the Devil's bounty hunter ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator |
Michele Fazekas
ⓘ
Tara Butters ⓘ |
| dealWith | the Devil ⓘ |
| debutYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| employer | the Devil ⓘ |
| endYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Reaper season 1 episode 1 "Pilot" ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy-drama
ⓘ
fantasy television ⓘ supernatural comedy ⓘ |
| hasFriend |
Ben Gonzalez
ⓘ
Sock ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Mr. Oliver
ⓘ
Mrs. Oliver ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
family secrets
ⓘ
moral ambiguity ⓘ reluctant heroism ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| loveInterest | Andi Prendergast ⓘ |
| medium | television series ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| network | The CW ⓘ |
| occupation |
bounty hunter for the Devil
ⓘ
soul collector ⓘ |
| originalChannel | The CW ⓘ |
| plotPoint | parents sold his soul to the Devil before his birth ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Bret Harrison ⓘ |
| setting |
Seattle area
ⓘ
linked to:
Seattle area, Washington, United States
|
| toneOfSeries |
humorous
ⓘ
supernatural ⓘ |
| uses | vessels to capture souls ⓘ |
| worksAs | home-improvement store employee ⓘ |
| worksAt | The Work Bench ⓘ |
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 Oliver Description of subject: Sam Oliver is the hapless young man who becomes a soul-collecting bounty hunter for the Devil in the supernatural comedy TV series "Reaper."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Bert "Sock" Wysocki in Reaper
subject linked to:
Bert "Sock" Wysocki in Reaper
subject linked to:
Bert "Sock" Wysocki in Reaper