Big Sam
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Big Sam is a loyal and strong enslaved field hand from Tara plantation in Margaret Mitchell’s novel "Gone with the Wind."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Big Sam canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10812961 — 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: Big Sam Context triple: [Tara plantation, associatedWithCharacter, Big Sam]
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A.
Fat Sam
Fat Sam is a comically over-the-top mob boss character in the 1976 musical gangster film "Bugsy Malone," known for running a speakeasy and getting caught up in slapstick gang rivalries.
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B.
Erick Sermon
Erick Sermon is an American rapper and record producer best known as one half of the influential hip hop duo EPMD and for his extensive work shaping the sound of 1990s East Coast rap.
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C.
Dulé Hill
Dulé Hill is an American actor best known for his roles as presidential aide Charlie Young on "The West Wing" and pharmaceutical salesman-turned-fake psychic Burton "Gus" Guster on "Psych."
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D.
Juelz Santana
Juelz Santana is an American rapper from Harlem best known as a member of The Diplomats (Dipset) and for his early-2000s hits and collaborations in East Coast hip hop.
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E.
Jadakiss
Jadakiss is an American rapper from Yonkers, New York, known for his gritty lyricism, distinctive raspy voice, and work both as a solo artist and member of The LOX.
- 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: Big Sam Target entity description: Big Sam is a loyal and strong enslaved field hand from Tara plantation in Margaret Mitchell’s novel "Gone with the Wind."
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A.
Fat Sam
Fat Sam is a comically over-the-top mob boss character in the 1976 musical gangster film "Bugsy Malone," known for running a speakeasy and getting caught up in slapstick gang rivalries.
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B.
Erick Sermon
Erick Sermon is an American rapper and record producer best known as one half of the influential hip hop duo EPMD and for his extensive work shaping the sound of 1990s East Coast rap.
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C.
Dulé Hill
Dulé Hill is an American actor best known for his roles as presidential aide Charlie Young on "The West Wing" and pharmaceutical salesman-turned-fake psychic Burton "Gus" Guster on "Psych."
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D.
Juelz Santana
Juelz Santana is an American rapper from Harlem best known as a member of The Diplomats (Dipset) and for his early-2000s hits and collaborations in East Coast hip hop.
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E.
Jadakiss
Jadakiss is an American rapper from Yonkers, New York, known for his gritty lyricism, distinctive raspy voice, and work both as a solo artist and member of The LOX.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
enslaved person
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| affiliation | Tara plantation ⓘ |
| appearsIn | novel Gone with the Wind ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Ellen O’Hara
ⓘ
linked to:
Ellen O'Hara
Gerald O’Hara ⓘ
linked to:
Gerald O'Hara
Scarlett O’Hara ⓘ
linked to:
Scarlett O'Hara
|
| characterTrait |
loyal
ⓘ
physically strong ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalUniverse |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Margaret Mitchell ⓘ |
| employer |
Ellen O’Hara
ⓘ
linked to:
Ellen O'Hara
Gerald O’Hara ⓘ
linked to:
Gerald O'Hara
O’Hara family ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African American (fictional) ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Gone with the Wind
ⓘ
linked to:
novel Gone with the Wind
|
| firstAppearance |
Gone with the Wind (1936 novel)
ⓘ
linked to:
novel Gone with the Wind
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | historical novel ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| loyalTo |
O’Hara family
ⓘ
Scarlett O’Hara ⓘ
linked to:
Scarlett O'Hara
|
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| nationality | American (fictional) ⓘ |
| occupation | field hand ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity |
American South
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern United States
Georgia ⓘ |
| status | enslaved at Tara plantation ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
American Civil War
ⓘ
Reconstruction era ⓘ |
| workLocation | cotton fields of Tara plantation ⓘ |
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: Big Sam Description of subject: Big Sam is a loyal and strong enslaved field hand from Tara plantation in Margaret Mitchell’s novel "Gone with the Wind."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.