Samuel Shepard Rogers III
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Samuel Shepard Rogers III, better known as Sam Shepard, was an American playwright, actor, and director renowned for his innovative, psychologically intense dramas exploring the American family and myth.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Samuel Shepard Rogers III canonical | 3 |
| Samuel Shepard Rogers Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2081306 — 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 Shepard Rogers III Context triple: [Sam Shepard, fullName, Samuel Shepard Rogers III]
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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.
William D. Moseley
William D. Moseley was an American politician who became the first governor of the U.S. state of Florida after it achieved statehood in 1845.
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C.
R. Rex Parris
R. Rex Parris is an American attorney and politician best known for serving as the long-time mayor of Lancaster, California, where he has promoted aggressive environmental and public safety initiatives.
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D.
Thomas Sampson
Thomas Sampson was a 16th-century English Puritan theologian and churchman known for his role in the early English Reformation and involvement with the Geneva Bible.
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E.
Grant Withers
Grant Withers was an American film actor known for his prolific work in Hollywood from the silent era through the 1950s, often appearing in Westerns and crime dramas.
- 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 Shepard Rogers III Target entity description: Samuel Shepard Rogers III, better known as Sam Shepard, was an American playwright, actor, and director renowned for his innovative, psychologically intense dramas exploring the American family and myth.
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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.
William D. Moseley
William D. Moseley was an American politician who became the first governor of the U.S. state of Florida after it achieved statehood in 1845.
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C.
R. Rex Parris
R. Rex Parris is an American attorney and politician best known for serving as the long-time mayor of Lancaster, California, where he has promoted aggressive environmental and public safety initiatives.
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D.
Thomas Sampson
Thomas Sampson was a 16th-century English Puritan theologian and churchman known for his role in the early English Reformation and involvement with the Geneva Bible.
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E.
Grant Withers
Grant Withers was an American film actor known for his prolific work in Hollywood from the silent era through the 1950s, often appearing in Westerns and crime dramas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 Shepard Rogers III Description of subject: Samuel Shepard Rogers III, better known as Sam Shepard, was an American playwright, actor, and director renowned for his innovative, psychologically intense dramas exploring the American family and myth.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Samuel Shepard Rogers III