Sam Baldwin
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Sam Baldwin is the widowed architect and devoted father portrayed by Tom Hanks in the romantic comedy film "Sleepless in Seattle."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam Baldwin canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1545409 — 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 Baldwin Context triple: [Sleepless in Seattle, mainCharacter, Sam Baldwin]
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A.
Ken Ralston
Ken Ralston is an acclaimed visual effects supervisor known for his groundbreaking work on major films such as the Star Wars and Back to the Future series.
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B.
Chuck Baldwin
Chuck Baldwin is an American pastor and political activist who was the Constitution Party’s nominee for U.S. president in 2008.
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C.
Douglas Kirk
Douglas Kirk is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Kirk.
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D.
Luke Murray
Luke Murray is an American basketball coach known for his assistant coaching roles at several major college programs and as the son of actor Bill Murray.
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E.
Fred Williamson
Fred Williamson is an American actor and former professional football player best known for his roles in 1970s blaxploitation films and numerous action and genre movies.
- 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 Baldwin Target entity description: Sam Baldwin is the widowed architect and devoted father portrayed by Tom Hanks in the romantic comedy film "Sleepless in Seattle."
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A.
Ken Ralston
Ken Ralston is an acclaimed visual effects supervisor known for his groundbreaking work on major films such as the Star Wars and Back to the Future series.
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B.
Chuck Baldwin
Chuck Baldwin is an American pastor and political activist who was the Constitution Party’s nominee for U.S. president in 2008.
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C.
Douglas Kirk
Douglas Kirk is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Kirk.
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D.
Luke Murray
Luke Murray is an American basketball coach known for his assistant coaching roles at several major college programs and as the son of actor Bill Murray.
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E.
Fred Williamson
Fred Williamson is an American actor and former professional football player best known for his roles in 1970s blaxploitation films and numerous action and genre movies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Sleepless in Seattle ⓘ |
| causeOfPublicAttention | radio program about grief ⓘ |
| communicatesVia | radio talk show ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | Nora Ephron ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Sleepless in Seattle ⓘ |
| filmDebut | Sleepless in Seattle ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | romantic comedy film ⓘ |
| hasChild | Jonah Baldwin ⓘ |
| introducedIn |
1993 film Sleepless in Seattle
ⓘ
linked to:
Sleepless in Seattle
|
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| loveInterest | Annie Reed ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | widowed ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic | devoted father ⓘ |
| notableSceneLocation | Empire State Building ⓘ |
| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| parentOf | Jonah Baldwin ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
reserved
ⓘ
romantic ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Tom Hanks ⓘ |
| residence |
Seattle
ⓘ
houseboat on Lake Union ⓘ |
| screenwriterOfWork | Nora Ephron ⓘ |
| settingOfStory |
Baltimore
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ Seattle ⓘ |
| spouse | Maggie Baldwin ⓘ |
| spouseStatus | deceased ⓘ |
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 Baldwin Description of subject: Sam Baldwin is the widowed architect and devoted father portrayed by Tom Hanks in the romantic comedy film "Sleepless in Seattle."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.