Sam J. Jones
E164935
Sam J. Jones is an American actor best known for starring as the title character in the 1980 science fiction film "Flash Gordon."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam J. Jones canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T654412 — 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 J. Jones Context triple: [Ted, featuresCameo, Sam J. Jones]
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A.
James Rogers
James Rogers is a common personal name shared by numerous individuals across various fields, including politics, academia, sports, and the arts.
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B.
Christopher Jones
Christopher Jones was the English mariner who captained the Mayflower on its historic 1620 voyage carrying the Pilgrims to New England.
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C.
James Edward Rice
James Edward Rice, better known as Jim Rice, is a former Major League Baseball left fielder who spent his entire career with the Boston Red Sox and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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D.
David M. Barkley
David M. Barkley was the son of U.S. Vice President Alben W. Barkley and a member of the prominent Barkley political family.
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E.
Bill Marshall
Bill Marshall was a Canadian film producer and cultural entrepreneur best known for co-founding and helping establish the Toronto International Film Festival as a major global cinema event.
- 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 J. Jones Target entity description: Sam J. Jones is an American actor best known for starring as the title character in the 1980 science fiction film "Flash Gordon."
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A.
James Rogers
James Rogers is a common personal name shared by numerous individuals across various fields, including politics, academia, sports, and the arts.
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B.
Christopher Jones
Christopher Jones was the English mariner who captained the Mayflower on its historic 1620 voyage carrying the Pilgrims to New England.
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C.
James Edward Rice
James Edward Rice, better known as Jim Rice, is a former Major League Baseball left fielder who spent his entire career with the Boston Red Sox and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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D.
David M. Barkley
David M. Barkley was the son of U.S. Vice President Alben W. Barkley and a member of the prominent Barkley political family.
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E.
Bill Marshall
Bill Marshall was a Canadian film producer and cultural entrepreneur best known for co-founding and helping establish the Toronto International Film Festival as a major global cinema event.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film industry
ⓘ
television industry ⓘ |
| birthName |
Samuel Gerald Jones
ⓘ
linked to:
Samuel Jones
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1954-08-12 ⓘ |
| familyName | Jones ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | science fiction film ⓘ |
| givenName | Samuel ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| hasHairColor | blond ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | nm0429202 ⓘ |
| knownFor | starring as the title character in the 1980 film Flash Gordon ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Sam J. Jones ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableRole | Flash Gordon ⓘ |
| notableWork | Flash Gordon ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| portrayed | Flash Gordon ⓘ |
| residence |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| starredIn | Flash Gordon ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 1980 ⓘ |
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 J. Jones Description of subject: Sam J. Jones is an American actor best known for starring as the title character in the 1980 science fiction film "Flash Gordon."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.