Sam Dawson
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Sam Dawson is a developmentally disabled single father who fights a legal battle to retain custody of his young daughter in the film "I Am Sam."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam Dawson canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9987897 — 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 Dawson Context triple: [I Am Sam, mainCharacter, Sam Dawson]
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A.
Mark Dawson
Mark Dawson is one of the children of the late British-American actor and game show host Richard Dawson.
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B.
John Dawson
John Dawson is a fictional character named John Dawson who appears in the work featuring the character Dawn.
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C.
John Dawson
John Dawson was a pioneering American plasma physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to plasma theory and fusion research.
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D.
John Dawson
John Dawson was an American musician best known as a founding member and primary songwriter of the country rock band New Riders of the Purple Sage.
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E.
Colum Eastwood
Colum Eastwood is a Northern Irish politician who has served as leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) and as a Member of Parliament for Foyle.
- 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 Dawson Target entity description: Sam Dawson is a developmentally disabled single father who fights a legal battle to retain custody of his young daughter in the film "I Am Sam."
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A.
Mark Dawson
Mark Dawson is one of the children of the late British-American actor and game show host Richard Dawson.
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B.
John Dawson
John Dawson is a fictional character named John Dawson who appears in the work featuring the character Dawn.
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C.
John Dawson
John Dawson was a pioneering American plasma physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to plasma theory and fusion research.
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D.
John Dawson
John Dawson was an American musician best known as a founding member and primary songwriter of the country rock band New Riders of the Purple Sage.
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E.
Colum Eastwood
Colum Eastwood is a Northern Irish politician who has served as leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) and as a Member of Parliament for Foyle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | I Am Sam ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
disability and parenting
ⓘ
family bonds ⓘ parental rights ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
kind
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loving ⓘ patient ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Jessie Nelson
ⓘ
Kristine Johnson ⓘ |
| employer | Starbucks ⓘ |
| fightsFor | custody of his daughter ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | I Am Sam ⓘ |
| friend |
Annie Cassell
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Ifty ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | drama film ⓘ |
| hasChild | Lucy Diamond Dawson ⓘ |
| hasDisability | developmental disability ⓘ |
| intelligenceLevel | intellectual disability ⓘ |
| legalIssue | custody battle ⓘ |
| loves | Lucy Diamond Dawson ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | single ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | legal struggle to keep custody of his daughter ⓘ |
| occupation | Starbucks employee ⓘ |
| parentalRole | single father ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Sean Penn ⓘ |
| representedBy | Rita Harrison ⓘ |
| residence | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| yearOfFirstAppearance | 2001 ⓘ |
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 Dawson Description of subject: Sam Dawson is a developmentally disabled single father who fights a legal battle to retain custody of his young daughter in the film "I Am Sam."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.