Sam Hardy
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Sam Hardy was an American character actor of the early 20th century, known for his supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films during the 1920s and 1930s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam Hardy canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8207337 — 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 Hardy Context triple: [The Miracle Woman, starring, Sam Hardy]
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A.
Phil Hardy
Phil Hardy was a British music industry journalist and author best known for his influential reference works on rock, pop, and film music.
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B.
Alec Hardy
Alec Hardy is a brooding, determined detective inspector best known as one of the central characters in the British crime drama series "Broadchurch."
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C.
Will Hardy
Will Hardy is an American professional basketball coach who serves as the head coach of the NBA's Utah Jazz.
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D.
Sam McCloud
Sam McCloud is a fictional deputy marshal from Taos, New Mexico, who stars as a fish-out-of-water lawman solving crimes in New York City in the 1970s television series "McCloud."
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E.
Michael Archer
Michael Archer is an Australian paleontologist and evolutionary biologist known for his research on marsupials and other Australasian mammals.
- 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 Hardy Target entity description: Sam Hardy was an American character actor of the early 20th century, known for his supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films during the 1920s and 1930s.
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A.
Phil Hardy
Phil Hardy was a British music industry journalist and author best known for his influential reference works on rock, pop, and film music.
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B.
Alec Hardy
Alec Hardy is a brooding, determined detective inspector best known as one of the central characters in the British crime drama series "Broadchurch."
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C.
Will Hardy
Will Hardy is an American professional basketball coach who serves as the head coach of the NBA's Utah Jazz.
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D.
Sam McCloud
Sam McCloud is a fictional deputy marshal from Taos, New Mexico, who stars as a fish-out-of-water lawman solving crimes in New York City in the 1970s television series "McCloud."
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E.
Michael Archer
Michael Archer is an Australian paleontologist and evolutionary biologist known for his research on marsupials and other Australasian mammals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn | film industry ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Hardy ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | cinema ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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drama film ⓘ |
| givenName | Sam ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Sam Hardy ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notability | numerous film appearances ⓘ |
| notableFor | supporting roles in Hollywood films ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Hollywood ⓘ |
| typeOfArtist | supporting actor ⓘ |
| workPeriod |
1920s
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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 Hardy Description of subject: Sam Hardy was an American character actor of the early 20th century, known for his supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films during the 1920s and 1930s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.