Adam
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"Adam" is a 1983 American television film based on the true story of the kidnapping and murder of Adam Walsh, in which JoBeth Williams stars as the boy’s mother.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Adam canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7235303 — 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: Adam Context triple: [JoBeth Williams, notableWork, Adam]
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Adam
Adam is a loyal, elderly servant in William Shakespeare’s comedy "As You Like It," known for his devotion and generosity toward Orlando.
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Adam
Adam is the first human in Abrahamic religious traditions, whose disobedience in Eden is believed to have introduced sin into the human condition.
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Adam
Adam is a common surname of Scottish and English origin, borne by various notable individuals including architects, politicians, and artists.
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Adam
Adam is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, commonly used in many cultures and languages.
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Adam
Adam is a reclusive, centuries-old vampire musician and one of the two melancholic immortal lovers at the center of Jim Jarmusch’s film "Only Lovers Left Alive."
- 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: Adam Target entity description: "Adam" is a 1983 American television film based on the true story of the kidnapping and murder of Adam Walsh, in which JoBeth Williams stars as the boy’s mother.
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Adam
Adam is a renowned sculpture by Auguste Rodin, notable for its expressive depiction of the biblical figure and housed in the Rodin Museum.
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B.
Adam
Adam is a reclusive, centuries-old vampire musician and one of the two melancholic immortal lovers at the center of Jim Jarmusch’s film "Only Lovers Left Alive."
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C.
Adam
Adam is the first human in Abrahamic religious traditions, whose disobedience in Eden is believed to have introduced sin into the human condition.
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D.
Adam
Adam is a loyal, elderly servant in William Shakespeare’s comedy "As You Like It," known for his devotion and generosity toward Orlando.
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E.
Adam
Adam is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, commonly used in many cultures and languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | television film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
kidnapping and murder of Adam Walsh
ⓘ
true story ⓘ |
| composer | Artie Kane ⓘ |
| countryOfFirstBroadcast |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| director | Michael Tuchner ⓘ |
| followedBy | Adam: His Song Continues ⓘ |
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Adam Walsh ⓘ |
| networkType | broadcast television ⓘ |
| notableFor |
inspiring missing children legislation in the United States
ⓘ
raising awareness of missing children ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originallyAiredAs | television movie of the week ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | NBC ⓘ |
| portrays |
John Walsh
ⓘ
Revé Walsh ⓘ aftermath of child murder ⓘ kidnapping investigation ⓘ |
| producer | Alan Landsburg ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1983 ⓘ |
| runtime | approx. 96 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Cliff Green ⓘ |
| starredActor |
Daniel J. Travanti
ⓘ
JoBeth Williams ⓘ Martha Scott ⓘ Paul Regina ⓘ Richard Masur ⓘ |
| titleCharacter | Adam Walsh ⓘ |
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: Adam Description of subject: "Adam" is a 1983 American television film based on the true story of the kidnapping and murder of Adam Walsh, in which JoBeth Williams stars as the boy’s mother.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.