Samantha Lewes
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Samantha Lewes was an American actress best known as Tom Hanks’s first wife and the mother of actors Colin Hanks and Elizabeth Hanks.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Samantha Lewes canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T500236 — 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: Samantha Lewes Context triple: [Tom Hanks, spouse, Samantha Lewes]
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A.
Lina Lamont
Lina Lamont is a comically vain, shrill-voiced silent film star whose struggle to adapt to talking pictures drives much of the humor and conflict in the classic musical film "Singin' in the Rain."
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B.
Esme Valerie Fletcher
Esme Valerie Fletcher, better known as Valerie Eliot, was the second wife and literary executor of poet T. S. Eliot, playing a key role in editing and preserving his works and legacy.
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C.
Sarah Cloyce
Sarah Cloyce was a woman accused during the Salem witch trials, known for being the sister of fellow accused Rebecca Nurse and for later helping to challenge the legitimacy of the proceedings.
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D.
Leslie
Leslie is a small town in Fife, Scotland, situated near Glenrothes and known historically for its textile and papermaking industries.
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E.
Leslie
Leslie is the given name of Leslie R. Groves Jr., the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officer who directed the Manhattan Project during World War II.
- 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: Samantha Lewes Target entity description: Samantha Lewes was an American actress best known as Tom Hanks’s first wife and the mother of actors Colin Hanks and Elizabeth Hanks.
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A.
Lina Lamont
Lina Lamont is a comically vain, shrill-voiced silent film star whose struggle to adapt to talking pictures drives much of the humor and conflict in the classic musical film "Singin' in the Rain."
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B.
Esme Valerie Fletcher
Esme Valerie Fletcher, better known as Valerie Eliot, was the second wife and literary executor of poet T. S. Eliot, playing a key role in editing and preserving his works and legacy.
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C.
Sarah Cloyce
Sarah Cloyce was a woman accused during the Salem witch trials, known for being the sister of fellow accused Rebecca Nurse and for later helping to challenge the legitimacy of the proceedings.
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D.
Leslie
Leslie is a small town in Fife, Scotland, situated near Glenrothes and known historically for its textile and papermaking industries.
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E.
Leslie
Leslie is the given name of Leslie R. Groves Jr., the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officer who directed the Manhattan Project during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actress
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actress ⓘ human ⓘ |
| birthName | Susan Jane Dillingham ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | bone cancer ⓘ |
| child |
Colin Hanks
ⓘ
Elizabeth Hanks ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1952-11-29 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2002-03-12 ⓘ |
| familyName | Dillingham ⓘ |
| genre | television acting ⓘ |
| givenName | Susan ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being the first wife of Tom Hanks
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being the mother of Colin Hanks ⓘ being the mother of Elizabeth Hanks ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| marriageEnd | 1987 ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1978 ⓘ |
| mother |
Samantha Lewes
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Samantha Lewes ⓘ |
| name | Samantha Lewes ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Colin Hanks
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Elizabeth Hanks ⓘ Tom Hanks ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bosom Buddies
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Mr. Success ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | San Diego, California, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Sacramento, California, United States
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linked to:
Sacramento
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| residence | California, United States ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Samantha Lewes
ⓘ
Tom Hanks ⓘ |
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: Samantha Lewes Description of subject: Samantha Lewes was an American actress best known as Tom Hanks’s first wife and the mother of actors Colin Hanks and Elizabeth Hanks.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Samantha Lewes
subject linked to:
Samantha Lewes
subject linked to:
Samantha Lewes
subject linked to:
Tom Hanks (theme performer credit often parodied)