Sam Lowry
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Sam Lowry is the meek, daydreaming bureaucrat protagonist of Terry Gilliam’s dystopian film "Brazil," whose fantasies of heroism clash with the oppressive, technocratic society he inhabits.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam Lowry canonical | 5 |
| Sam Lowry – Jonathan Pryce | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4651451 — 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 Lowry Context triple: [Brazil (film), mainCharacter, Sam Lowry]
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A.
Carl Ryder
Carl Ryder is a music producer known for his work on Public Enemy’s landmark hip-hop album "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back."
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B.
Jane Livesey
Jane Livesey is best known as the wife of the late English actor Bob Hoskins.
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C.
Richard Friend
Richard Friend is a British physicist renowned for his pioneering work on organic semiconductors and plastic electronics.
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D.
Laurie (Theodore Laurence)
Laurie (Theodore Laurence) is the charming, wealthy boy-next-door and close friend of the March sisters whose unrequited love for Jo is central to the emotional arc of Little Women.
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E.
Charles Ryder
Charles Ryder is the introspective narrator and central figure of Evelyn Waugh’s "Brideshead Revisited," whose relationships with the aristocratic Flyte family shape his reflections on love, faith, and memory.
- 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 Lowry Target entity description: Sam Lowry is the meek, daydreaming bureaucrat protagonist of Terry Gilliam’s dystopian film "Brazil," whose fantasies of heroism clash with the oppressive, technocratic society he inhabits.
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A.
Carl Ryder
Carl Ryder is a music producer known for his work on Public Enemy’s landmark hip-hop album "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back."
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B.
Jane Livesey
Jane Livesey is best known as the wife of the late English actor Bob Hoskins.
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C.
Richard Friend
Richard Friend is a British physicist renowned for his pioneering work on organic semiconductors and plastic electronics.
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D.
Laurie (Theodore Laurence)
Laurie (Theodore Laurence) is the charming, wealthy boy-next-door and close friend of the March sisters whose unrequited love for Jo is central to the emotional arc of Little Women.
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E.
Charles Ryder
Charles Ryder is the introspective narrator and central figure of Evelyn Waugh’s "Brideshead Revisited," whose relationships with the aristocratic Flyte family shape his reflections on love, faith, and memory.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Brazil ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
dream sequences
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paperwork and forms ⓘ state surveillance ⓘ |
| climacticOutcome | psychological escape into fantasy ⓘ |
| conflictType |
fantasy vs. reality
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individual vs. state ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginWork |
United Kingdom
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United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| createdBy | Terry Gilliam ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
black comedy film
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dystopian science fiction film ⓘ |
| loveInterest | Jill Layton ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| mentalState | increasingly detached from reality ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | critiques bureaucratic dehumanization ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | main protagonist of Brazil ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
desire to escape his mundane life
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vivid heroic fantasies ⓘ |
| occupation | bureaucrat ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
daydreaming
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introverted ⓘ meek ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Jonathan Pryce ⓘ |
| screenWriterCreator |
Charles McKeown
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Terry Gilliam ⓘ Tom Stoppard ⓘ |
| setting |
bureaucratic state
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dystopian society ⓘ oppressive technocratic society ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
authoritarianism
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bureaucracy ⓘ escapism ⓘ surrealism ⓘ totalitarianism ⓘ |
| visualMotive | winged armored hero in his fantasies ⓘ |
| worksFor |
Ministry of Information
ⓘ
linked to:
Ministry of Information (United Kingdom)
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| yearOfFirstAppearance | 1985 ⓘ |
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 Lowry Description of subject: Sam Lowry is the meek, daydreaming bureaucrat protagonist of Terry Gilliam’s dystopian film "Brazil," whose fantasies of heroism clash with the oppressive, technocratic society he inhabits.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Brazil
subject linked to:
Brazil (1985 film) in Terry Gilliam’s loose trilogy of imagination
subject linked to:
film "Brazil"
subject linked to:
film "Brazil"
linked to: Sam Lowry