Sam Sheridan
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Sam Sheridan is an American writer and former firefighter and sailor, best known for his nonfiction books about combat sports and survival.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sam Sheridan canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8335611 — 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 Sheridan Context triple: [Patty Jenkins, spouse, Sam Sheridan]
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A.
Scott O’Connor
Scott O’Connor is one of the sons of John Jay O’Connor III and former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
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B.
Brian Delaney
Brian Delaney is an American rock drummer best known for his work with the influential proto-punk band the New York Dolls.
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C.
Gavan Duffy
Gavan Duffy is the surname of George Gavan Duffy, an Irish politician, lawyer, and signatory of the Anglo-Irish Treaty who later served as a judge.
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D.
Owen Grady
Owen Grady is a skilled Velociraptor trainer and former Navy veteran who serves as a central protagonist in the Jurassic World film series.
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E.
Gavan O'Herlihy
Gavan O'Herlihy was an Irish-American actor known for his character roles in film and television, including appearances in genre and action movies of the 1970s and 1980s.
- 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 Sheridan Target entity description: Sam Sheridan is an American writer and former firefighter and sailor, best known for his nonfiction books about combat sports and survival.
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A.
Scott O’Connor
Scott O’Connor is one of the sons of John Jay O’Connor III and former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
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B.
Brian Delaney
Brian Delaney is an American rock drummer best known for his work with the influential proto-punk band the New York Dolls.
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C.
Gavan Duffy
Gavan Duffy is the surname of George Gavan Duffy, an Irish politician, lawyer, and signatory of the Anglo-Irish Treaty who later served as a judge.
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D.
Owen Grady
Owen Grady is a skilled Velociraptor trainer and former Navy veteran who serves as a central protagonist in the Jurassic World film series.
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E.
Gavan O'Herlihy
Gavan O'Herlihy was an Irish-American actor known for his character roles in film and television, including appearances in genre and action movies of the 1970s and 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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former firefighter ⓘ former sailor ⓘ human ⓘ memoirist ⓘ non-fiction writer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| basedIn | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| coCreated | TV series based on his disaster-survival ideas ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Harvard University ⓘ |
| genre |
memoir
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non-fiction ⓘ sports writing ⓘ survival literature ⓘ |
| hasChild | one son ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
books about combat sports
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books about survival and disasters ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Fighter’s Heart: One Man’s Journey Through the World of Fighting
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The Disaster Diaries: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Apocalypse ⓘ The Fighter’s Mind: Inside the Mental Game ⓘ |
| occupation |
firefighter
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sailor ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television writer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| spouse | Rachel Morrison ⓘ |
| subjectOfWriting |
Brazilian jiu-jitsu
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Muay Thai ⓘ boxing ⓘ combat sports ⓘ disaster preparedness ⓘ mental aspects of fighting ⓘ mixed martial arts ⓘ survival skills ⓘ |
| workedAs |
merchant marine sailor
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wildland firefighter ⓘ |
| writingLanguage | English ⓘ |
| wroteAbout |
elite athletes
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fighters ⓘ survival experts ⓘ |
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 Sheridan Description of subject: Sam Sheridan is an American writer and former firefighter and sailor, best known for his nonfiction books about combat sports and survival.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.