Sam Dodsworth
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Sam Dodsworth is the successful yet emotionally unfulfilled American businessman at the center of Sinclair Lewis’s novel and its stage and film adaptations, whose travels in Europe trigger a profound midlife reckoning with his marriage and identity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sam Dodsworth canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10512316 — 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 Dodsworth Context triple: [Dodsworth (play), mainCharacters, Sam Dodsworth]
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A.
Henry Biggs
Henry Biggs is a central character in the film "The Preacher's Wife," portrayed as a devoted pastor whose strained marriage and crisis of faith draw the attention of a visiting angel.
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B.
Henry Burden
Henry Burden was a 19th-century Scottish-American industrialist and inventor known for revolutionizing iron manufacturing, particularly through his patented horseshoe machine and development of the Burden Iron Works in Troy, New York.
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C.
Granville Bates
Granville Bates was an American character actor of the early 20th century, known for his supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films of the 1930s and early 1940s.
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D.
Simon Dunsdon
Simon Dunsdon is a cinematographer known for his work on the animated film "Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation."
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E.
Colin Chaulk
Colin Chaulk is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who became a coach, notably leading teams in minor professional leagues.
- 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 Dodsworth Target entity description: Sam Dodsworth is the successful yet emotionally unfulfilled American businessman at the center of Sinclair Lewis’s novel and its stage and film adaptations, whose travels in Europe trigger a profound midlife reckoning with his marriage and identity.
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A.
Henry Biggs
Henry Biggs is a central character in the film "The Preacher's Wife," portrayed as a devoted pastor whose strained marriage and crisis of faith draw the attention of a visiting angel.
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B.
Henry Burden
Henry Burden was a 19th-century Scottish-American industrialist and inventor known for revolutionizing iron manufacturing, particularly through his patented horseshoe machine and development of the Burden Iron Works in Troy, New York.
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C.
Granville Bates
Granville Bates was an American character actor of the early 20th century, known for his supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films of the 1930s and early 1940s.
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D.
Simon Dunsdon
Simon Dunsdon is a cinematographer known for his work on the animated film "Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation."
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E.
Colin Chaulk
Colin Chaulk is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who became a coach, notably leading teams in minor professional leagues.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| adaptedIn |
Dodsworth (1936 film)
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linked to:
Dodsworth
Dodsworth (stage adaptation) ⓘ
linked to:
Dodsworth (play)
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| appearsIn | Dodsworth ⓘ |
| associatedWorkGenre |
drama
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film drama ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
emotionally unfulfilled
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introspective ⓘ successful ⓘ |
| creator | Sinclair Lewis ⓘ |
| experiences |
cultural dislocation
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marital crisis ⓘ midlife reckoning ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Dodsworth (novel) ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Dodsworth (1929 novel)
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linked to:
Dodsworth (novel)
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| gender | male ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central character ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | businessman ⓘ |
| spouse | Fran Dodsworth ⓘ |
| themeAssociated |
American abroad
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marital conflict ⓘ midlife crisis ⓘ search for identity ⓘ |
| travelsTo | Europe ⓘ |
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 Dodsworth Description of subject: Sam Dodsworth is the successful yet emotionally unfulfilled American businessman at the center of Sinclair Lewis’s novel and its stage and film adaptations, whose travels in Europe trigger a profound midlife reckoning with his marriage and identity.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.