Samuel Black
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Samuel Black is the father of American stand-up comedian and social critic Lewis Black.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Samuel Black canonical | 3 |
| Samuel Jason Black | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1897105 — 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: Samuel Black Context triple: [Lewis Black, parent, Samuel Black]
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A.
Samuel Gardner
Samuel Gardner is a fictional teenage protagonist on the autism spectrum from the Netflix series "Atypical."
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B.
Samuel March
Samuel March was one of the early New York stockbrokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by signing the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
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C.
Porter Black
Porter Black is the troubled protagonist of the film "The Beaver," whose struggle with severe depression leads him to communicate through a beaver hand puppet as an alternate personality.
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D.
Samuel Jones
Samuel Jones is an individual whose full given name is Samuel but is commonly referred to as Sam Jones.
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E.
Samuel Downing
Samuel Downing was the father of influential 19th-century American landscape designer and writer Andrew Jackson Downing.
- 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: Samuel Black Target entity description: Samuel Black is the father of American stand-up comedian and social critic Lewis Black.
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A.
Samuel Gardner
Samuel Gardner is a fictional teenage protagonist on the autism spectrum from the Netflix series "Atypical."
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B.
Samuel March
Samuel March was one of the early New York stockbrokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by signing the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
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C.
Porter Black
Porter Black is the troubled protagonist of the film "The Beaver," whose struggle with severe depression leads him to communicate through a beaver hand puppet as an alternate personality.
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D.
Samuel Jones
Samuel Jones is an individual whose full given name is Samuel but is commonly referred to as Sam Jones.
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E.
Samuel Downing
Samuel Downing was the father of influential 19th-century American landscape designer and writer Andrew Jackson Downing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (6)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| child | Lewis Black ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| father | Samuel Black ⓘ |
| notableFamilyRelation | father of American stand-up comedian and social critic Lewis Black ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Samuel Black Description of subject: Samuel Black is the father of American stand-up comedian and social critic Lewis Black.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.