Sam Bowden
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Sam Bowden is the small-town lawyer protagonist in the thriller "Cape Fear," whose family is terrorized by a vengeful ex-convict he once helped imprison.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam Bowden canonical | 15 |
| Sam Bowden (1991 film character) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2326035 — 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 Bowden Context triple: [Cape Fear (1962 film), character, Sam Bowden]
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A.
Anderson Hunt
Anderson Hunt is a former American college basketball guard best known for starring on UNLV’s early-1990s powerhouse teams, including the 1990 NCAA championship squad where he was named Final Four Most Outstanding Player.
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B.
Edward Burleson
Edward Burleson was a prominent Texian military and political leader of the Texas Revolution who later served as vice president of the Republic of Texas.
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C.
Ed Masterson
Ed Masterson was an American lawman and marshal in the Old West, best known for his role in Dodge City, Kansas, and as the brother of famed gunfighter and lawman Bat Masterson.
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D.
Ed Brophy
Ed Brophy is an American boxing historian and executive best known for creating and leading the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, New York.
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E.
Joe Bullock
Joe Bullock is an Australian former trade union official and Labor Party senator for Western Australia known for his socially conservative views and controversial resignation from Parliament.
- 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 Bowden Target entity description: Sam Bowden is the small-town lawyer protagonist in the thriller "Cape Fear," whose family is terrorized by a vengeful ex-convict he once helped imprison.
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A.
Anderson Hunt
Anderson Hunt is a former American college basketball guard best known for starring on UNLV’s early-1990s powerhouse teams, including the 1990 NCAA championship squad where he was named Final Four Most Outstanding Player.
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B.
Edward Burleson
Edward Burleson was a prominent Texian military and political leader of the Texas Revolution who later served as vice president of the Republic of Texas.
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C.
Ed Masterson
Ed Masterson was an American lawman and marshal in the Old West, best known for his role in Dodge City, Kansas, and as the brother of famed gunfighter and lawman Bat Masterson.
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D.
Ed Brophy
Ed Brophy is an American boxing historian and executive best known for creating and leading the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, New York.
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E.
Joe Bullock
Joe Bullock is an Australian former trade union official and Labor Party senator for Western Australia known for his socially conservative views and controversial resignation from Parliament.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
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 Bowden Description of subject: Sam Bowden is the small-town lawyer protagonist in the thriller "Cape Fear," whose family is terrorized by a vengeful ex-convict he once helped imprison.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.