Sam De Grasse
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Sam De Grasse was a Canadian-born silent film actor best known for his villainous roles in early Hollywood adventure and drama films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam De Grasse canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T450176 — 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 De Grasse Context triple: [The Black Pirate, starring, Sam De Grasse]
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A.
Sam Wheeler
Sam Wheeler is the father of Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, Oregon.
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B.
Samuel Jones
Samuel Jones is an individual whose full given name is Samuel but is commonly referred to as Sam Jones.
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C.
William Ryan
William Ryan is a marine geologist and oceanographer known for his influential work on seafloor spreading and the geological history of the Black Sea, including the "Noah's Flood" hypothesis.
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D.
Jack Driscoll
Jack Driscoll is a central heroic character in the 1933 film "King Kong," serving as the ship's first mate and the primary human protagonist who helps rescue Ann Darrow from the giant ape.
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E.
Matthew Sands
Matthew Sands was an American physicist and educator best known as one of the co-authors of the influential textbook series "The Feynman Lectures on Physics."
- 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 De Grasse Target entity description: Sam De Grasse was a Canadian-born silent film actor best known for his villainous roles in early Hollywood adventure and drama films.
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A.
Sam Wheeler
Sam Wheeler is the father of Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, Oregon.
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B.
Samuel Jones
Samuel Jones is an individual whose full given name is Samuel but is commonly referred to as Sam Jones.
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C.
William Ryan
William Ryan is a marine geologist and oceanographer known for his influential work on seafloor spreading and the geological history of the Black Sea, including the "Noah's Flood" hypothesis.
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D.
Jack Driscoll
Jack Driscoll is a central heroic character in the 1933 film "King Kong," serving as the ship's first mate and the primary human protagonist who helps rescue Ann Darrow from the giant ape.
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E.
Matthew Sands
Matthew Sands was an American physicist and educator best known as one of the co-authors of the influential textbook series "The Feynman Lectures on Physics."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
person ⓘ silent film actor ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | silent film era ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Canada ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1875-06-12 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1953-11-29 ⓘ |
| familyName | De Grasse ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure film
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ |
| givenName | Sam ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Sam De Grasse ⓘ |
| notableFor | villainous roles in silent films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Intolerance
ⓘ
Robin Hood (1922 film) ⓘ The Birth of a Nation ⓘ The Mark of Zorro (1920 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Mark of Zorro
|
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ silent film actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Toronto ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Hollywood ⓘ |
| relative | Robert De Grasse ⓘ |
| relativeType | uncle of Robert De Grasse ⓘ |
| spouse | Ada Fuller Golden ⓘ |
| stateOfDeath |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
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| workedIn | Hollywood ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1912–1930s ⓘ |
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 De Grasse Description of subject: Sam De Grasse was a Canadian-born silent film actor best known for his villainous roles in early Hollywood adventure and drama films.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.