Samuel Walker Shepard
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Samuel Walker Shepard is the son of acclaimed American playwright and actor Sam Shepard and actress O-Lan Jones.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Samuel Walker Shepard canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2081347 — 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 Walker Shepard Context triple: [Sam Shepard, child, Samuel Walker Shepard]
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A.
John Paxton
John Paxton was an American screenwriter known for his acclaimed adaptations of literary works and his contributions to mid-20th-century Hollywood cinema.
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B.
Fred Tate
Fred Tate is a child prodigy whose extraordinary intellectual abilities and emotional struggles are central to the drama film "Little Man Tate."
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C.
Walter Darre
Walter Darré was a leading Nazi official and ideologue of "blood and soil" agrarianism who served as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture and was later tried as a war criminal after World War II.
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D.
James Campbell Walker
James Campbell Walker was a 19th-century Scottish architect known for designing notable public buildings, including several Carnegie libraries.
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E.
Lud Wray
Lud Wray was an early professional football coach and executive best known for co-founding and serving as the first head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFL.
- 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 Walker Shepard Target entity description: Samuel Walker Shepard is the son of acclaimed American playwright and actor Sam Shepard and actress O-Lan Jones.
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A.
John Paxton
John Paxton was an American screenwriter known for his acclaimed adaptations of literary works and his contributions to mid-20th-century Hollywood cinema.
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B.
Fred Tate
Fred Tate is a child prodigy whose extraordinary intellectual abilities and emotional struggles are central to the drama film "Little Man Tate."
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C.
Walter Darre
Walter Darré was a leading Nazi official and ideologue of "blood and soil" agrarianism who served as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture and was later tried as a war criminal after World War II.
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D.
James Campbell Walker
James Campbell Walker was a 19th-century Scottish architect known for designing notable public buildings, including several Carnegie libraries.
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E.
Lud Wray
Lud Wray was an early professional football coach and executive best known for co-founding and serving as the first head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFL.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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person ⓘ |
| child |
Samuel Walker Shepard
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Samuel Walker Shepard ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| father | Sam Shepard ⓘ |
| mother | O-Lan Jones ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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actress ⓘ playwright ⓘ |
| 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 Walker Shepard Description of subject: Samuel Walker Shepard is the son of acclaimed American playwright and actor Sam Shepard and actress O-Lan Jones.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.