Sam Tyler
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Sam Tyler is the time-displaced Manchester detective protagonist of the British television series "Life on Mars."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sam Tyler canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3115555 — 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 Tyler Context triple: [John Simm, playedCharacter, Sam Tyler]
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A.
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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B.
Jack Pearson
Jack Pearson is a central character in the television drama "This Is Us," known as the devoted patriarch of the Pearson family whose life and legacy deeply shape the series' emotional narrative.
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C.
Sam Wheat
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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D.
James Stacy
James Stacy was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in 1960s and 1970s TV series, including the Western "Lancer."
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E.
Mark Eaton
Mark Eaton was a dominant 7-foot-4 center for the Utah Jazz, renowned for his elite shot-blocking and rim protection during the 1980s.
- 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 Tyler Target entity description: Sam Tyler is the time-displaced Manchester detective protagonist of the British television series "Life on Mars."
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A.
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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B.
Jack Pearson
Jack Pearson is a central character in the television drama "This Is Us," known as the devoted patriarch of the Pearson family whose life and legacy deeply shape the series' emotional narrative.
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C.
Sam Wheat
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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D.
James Stacy
James Stacy was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in 1960s and 1970s TV series, including the Western "Lancer."
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E.
Mark Eaton
Mark Eaton was a dominant 7-foot-4 center for the Utah Jazz, renowned for his elite shot-blocking and rim protection during the 1980s.
- 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: Sam Tyler Description of subject: Sam Tyler is the time-displaced Manchester detective protagonist of the British television series "Life on Mars."
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.