Samuel E. Wright
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Samuel E. Wright was an American actor and singer best known for voicing Sebastian the crab and performing the Oscar-winning song "Under the Sea" in Disney’s The Little Mermaid.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Samuel E. Wright canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3241113 — 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: Samuel E. Wright Context triple: [The Little Mermaid (1989 film), voiceActor, Samuel E. Wright]
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A.
William E. Hunt
William E. Hunt was an American jurist who served as a justice on the Montana Supreme Court.
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B.
Louis W. Hill
Louis W. Hill was an American railroad executive and businessman who helped expand and promote the Great Northern Railway and tourism in the northwestern United States.
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C.
Charles F. Wheeler
Charles F. Wheeler was an American cinematographer known for his work on feature films and television during the mid-20th century.
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D.
Jesse E. Moorland
Jesse E. Moorland was an African American minister, educator, and philanthropist whose extensive collection of books and documents on Black history helped form the foundation of Howard University’s Moorland–Spingarn Research Center.
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E.
Samuel H. Smith
Samuel H. Smith was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and one of the first missionaries of the Church of Christ founded by his brother Joseph Smith.
- 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: Samuel E. Wright Target entity description: Samuel E. Wright was an American actor and singer best known for voicing Sebastian the crab and performing the Oscar-winning song "Under the Sea" in Disney’s The Little Mermaid.
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A.
William E. Hunt
William E. Hunt was an American jurist who served as a justice on the Montana Supreme Court.
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B.
Louis W. Hill
Louis W. Hill was an American railroad executive and businessman who helped expand and promote the Great Northern Railway and tourism in the northwestern United States.
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C.
Charles F. Wheeler
Charles F. Wheeler was an American cinematographer known for his work on feature films and television during the mid-20th century.
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D.
Jesse E. Moorland
Jesse E. Moorland was an African American minister, educator, and philanthropist whose extensive collection of books and documents on Black history helped form the foundation of Howard University’s Moorland–Spingarn Research Center.
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E.
Samuel H. Smith
Samuel H. Smith was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and one of the first missionaries of the Church of Christ founded by his brother Joseph Smith.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
animated feature film
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ human ⓘ song ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Little Mermaid ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Original Song ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Wwright ⓘ |
| genre |
film acting
ⓘ
vocal music ⓘ voice acting ⓘ |
| givenName | Samuel ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Samuel E. Wright ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
performing the song Under the Sea
ⓘ
voicing Sebastian the crab in Disney’s The Little Mermaid ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Little Mermaid ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
singer ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| partOf | The Little Mermaid (soundtrack) ⓘ |
| performedSong | Under the Sea ⓘ |
| performedSongIn | The Little Mermaid ⓘ |
| producer | Walt Disney Pictures ⓘ |
| species | crab ⓘ |
| voicedCharacter | Sebastian ⓘ |
| voicedCharacterIn | The Little Mermaid ⓘ |
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: Samuel E. Wright Description of subject: Samuel E. Wright was an American actor and singer best known for voicing Sebastian the crab and performing the Oscar-winning song "Under the Sea" in Disney’s The Little Mermaid.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Little Mermaid
subject linked to:
Disney's 2000 film "Dinosaur" (branding tie-in)
subject linked to:
film "Bird"