Sam Riley
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Sam Riley is an English actor known for roles in films such as "Control," "On the Road," and Disney's "Maleficent" series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam Riley canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7603912 — 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 Riley Context triple: [Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, castMember, Sam Riley]
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A.
Peter Firth
Peter Firth is an English actor best known for his roles in the film "Equus" and the television series "Spooks" (MI-5).
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B.
Matthew Goode
Matthew Goode is an English actor known for his roles in films such as "Match Point," "The Imitation Game," and "Stoker," as well as TV series like "Downton Abbey" and "The Good Wife."
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C.
Dominic West
Dominic West is a British actor known for his roles in acclaimed television series such as "The Wire" and "The Affair," as well as numerous film and stage performances.
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D.
David Craig
David Craig is a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to become Chief of the Air Staff and later Chief of the Defence Staff of the United Kingdom.
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E.
David Craig
David Craig was the husband of American actress, comedian, and director Nancy Walker.
- 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 Riley Target entity description: Sam Riley is an English actor known for roles in films such as "Control," "On the Road," and Disney's "Maleficent" series.
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A.
Peter Firth
Peter Firth is an English actor best known for his roles in the film "Equus" and the television series "Spooks" (MI-5).
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B.
Matthew Goode
Matthew Goode is an English actor known for his roles in films such as "Match Point," "The Imitation Game," and "Stoker," as well as TV series like "Downton Abbey" and "The Good Wife."
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C.
Dominic West
Dominic West is a British actor known for his roles in acclaimed television series such as "The Wire" and "The Affair," as well as numerous film and stage performances.
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D.
David Craig
David Craig is a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to become Chief of the Air Staff and later Chief of the Defence Staff of the United Kingdom.
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E.
David Craig
David Craig was the husband of American actress, comedian, and director Nancy Walker.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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human ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| characterPortrayedIn |
13
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Brighton Rock ⓘ Control ⓘ Free Fire ⓘ Happy New Year, Colin Burstead ⓘ Maleficent ⓘ Maleficent: Mistress of Evil ⓘ On the Road ⓘ Pride and Prejudice and Zombies ⓘ SS-GB ⓘ Suite Française ⓘ The Dark Valley ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employer | film industry ⓘ |
| familyName | Riley ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkActedIn |
biographical film
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drama film ⓘ fantasy film ⓘ |
| givenName | Sam ⓘ |
| hasChild | son ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Sam Riley ⓘ |
| notableWork |
13
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Brighton Rock ⓘ Control ⓘ Free Fire ⓘ Happy New Year, Colin Burstead ⓘ Maleficent ⓘ Maleficent: Mistress of Evil ⓘ On the Road ⓘ Pride and Prejudice and Zombies ⓘ SS-GB ⓘ Suite Française ⓘ The Dark Valley ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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model ⓘ |
| partnerInProfession | Alexandra Maria Lara ⓘ |
| portrayed | Ian Curtis ⓘ |
| residence | Germany ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Alexandra Maria Lara ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Germany
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
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 Riley Description of subject: Sam Riley is an English actor known for roles in films such as "Control," "On the Road," and Disney's "Maleficent" series.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.