Sam Wheat
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Sam Wheat is the murdered banker-turned-ghost portrayed by Patrick Swayze in the 1990 romantic fantasy film "Ghost," who tries to protect his girlfriend and solve his own death from the afterlife.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam Wheat canonical | 12 |
| Sam Wheat (as a ghost) | 1 |
| Sam Wheat is a murdered banker who becomes a ghost | 1 |
| Sam Wheat – Patrick Swayze | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2834534 — 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 Wheat Context triple: [Ghost, mainCharacter, Sam Wheat]
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A.
Danny Archer
Danny Archer is a fictional mercenary and diamond smuggler in the film "Blood Diamond," known for his morally conflicted role amid the Sierra Leone Civil War.
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B.
Jack Donaghy
Jack Donaghy is a sharply dressed, corporate-minded television executive known for his ruthless business savvy and deadpan mentorship of Liz Lemon on the sitcom "30 Rock."
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C.
Jack Pearson
Jack Pearson is an American guitarist and songwriter best known for his work in Southern rock and blues, including a notable late-1990s stint with The Allman Brothers Band.
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D.
Dean Moriarty
Dean Moriarty is a wild, charismatic drifter and free spirit in Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road," inspired by the real-life figure Neal Cassady.
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E.
Paul Benedict
Paul Benedict was an American character actor best known for his comedic roles on television and in film, including his portrayal of the eccentric English neighbor Harry Bentley on the sitcom "The Jeffersons."
- 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 Wheat Target entity description: Sam Wheat is the murdered banker-turned-ghost portrayed by Patrick Swayze in the 1990 romantic fantasy film "Ghost," who tries to protect his girlfriend and solve his own death from the afterlife.
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A.
Danny Archer
Danny Archer is a fictional mercenary and diamond smuggler in the film "Blood Diamond," known for his morally conflicted role amid the Sierra Leone Civil War.
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B.
Jack Donaghy
Jack Donaghy is a sharply dressed, corporate-minded television executive known for his ruthless business savvy and deadpan mentorship of Liz Lemon on the sitcom "30 Rock."
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C.
Jack Pearson
Jack Pearson is an American guitarist and songwriter best known for his work in Southern rock and blues, including a notable late-1990s stint with The Allman Brothers Band.
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D.
Dean Moriarty
Dean Moriarty is a wild, charismatic drifter and free spirit in Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road," inspired by the real-life figure Neal Cassady.
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E.
Paul Benedict
Paul Benedict was an American character actor best known for his comedic roles on television and in film, including his portrayal of the eccentric English neighbor Harry Bentley on the sitcom "The Jeffersons."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| alignment | heroic ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Ghost ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Unchained Melody ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | murder ⓘ |
| closeFriend | Carl Bruner ⓘ |
| communicatesThrough | Oda Mae Brown ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Bruce Joel Rubin ⓘ |
| deathSceneLocation | street in New York City ⓘ |
| featuredIn | romantic pottery wheel scene ⓘ |
| filmDirectorOfWork | Jerry Zucker ⓘ |
| finalFate | ascends to the afterlife ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
romantic fantasy
ⓘ
supernatural drama ⓘ |
| hasAbility |
interact with the physical world as a ghost
ⓘ
possess living person temporarily ⓘ |
| hasQuote | It’s amazing, Molly. The love inside, you take it with you. ⓘ |
| hasStatus | ghost ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
afterlife and redemption
ⓘ
love transcending death ⓘ |
| killedBy | Willy Lopez ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| learnsFrom | subway ghost about moving objects ⓘ |
| loveInterest | Molly Jensen ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| notableFor | iconic afterlife romance storyline ⓘ |
| notableSceneWith | subway ghost ⓘ |
| occupation | banker ⓘ |
| partOf | Ghost (film) characters ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Patrick Swayze ⓘ |
| primaryConflict | unresolved murder and threat to Molly Jensen ⓘ |
| productionCompanyOfWork | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| relationshipStatus | in a relationship with Molly Jensen at time of death ⓘ |
| screenWriterOfWork | Bruce Joel Rubin ⓘ |
| setting | New York City ⓘ |
| triesTo |
protect Molly Jensen
ⓘ
solve his own murder ⓘ |
| yearOfFirstAppearance | 1990 ⓘ |
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 Wheat Description of subject: Sam Wheat is the murdered banker-turned-ghost portrayed by Patrick Swayze in the 1990 romantic fantasy film "Ghost," who tries to protect his girlfriend and solve his own death from the afterlife.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sam Wheat
linked to: Sam Wheat
subject linked to:
grieving the death of her boyfriend Sam Wheat
subject linked to:
grieving the death of her boyfriend Sam Wheat
subject linked to:
grieving the death of her boyfriend Sam Wheat
subject linked to:
grieving the death of her boyfriend Sam Wheat
linked to: Sam Wheat
subject linked to:
grieving the death of her boyfriend Sam Wheat