Sam Neill
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Sam Neill is a New Zealand actor best known for his versatile film career, including leading roles in movies such as Jurassic Park and The Piano.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sam Neill canonical | 30 |
| Sam Neill as Alisdair Stewart | 1 |
| Sam Neill as David Jenkins | 1 |
| Sam Neill as Michael Chamberlain | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T976957 — 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 Neill Context triple: [My Brilliant Career, starring, Sam Neill]
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A.
Hugo Weaving
Hugo Weaving is an Australian actor renowned for his roles in major film franchises, including playing Elrond in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy and Agent Smith in "The Matrix" series.
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B.
Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn is an Australian actor known for his intense character roles in film and television, including prominent villains in major Hollywood productions.
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C.
John Hurt
John Hurt was an acclaimed English actor known for his distinctive voice and powerful performances in films such as "The Elephant Man," "Alien," and "Midnight Express."
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D.
Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee was an English actor renowned for his deep voice and imposing presence, best known for iconic roles such as Count Dracula in Hammer Horror films and Saruman in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
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E.
Bernard Hill
Bernard Hill is an English actor best known for his roles as King Théoden in "The Lord of the Rings" film trilogy and Captain Edward Smith in "Titanic."
- 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 Neill Target entity description: Sam Neill is a New Zealand actor best known for his versatile film career, including leading roles in movies such as Jurassic Park and The Piano.
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A.
Hugo Weaving
Hugo Weaving is an Australian actor renowned for his roles in major film franchises, including playing Elrond in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy and Agent Smith in "The Matrix" series.
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B.
Ben Mendelsohn
Ben Mendelsohn is an Australian actor known for his intense character roles in film and television, including prominent villains in major Hollywood productions.
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C.
John Hurt
John Hurt was an acclaimed English actor known for his distinctive voice and powerful performances in films such as "The Elephant Man," "Alien," and "Midnight Express."
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D.
Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee was an English actor renowned for his deep voice and imposing presence, best known for iconic roles such as Count Dracula in Hammer Horror films and Saruman in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
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E.
Bernard Hill
Bernard Hill is an English actor best known for his roles as King Théoden in "The Lord of the Rings" film trilogy and Captain Edward Smith in "Titanic."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 Neill Description of subject: Sam Neill is a New Zealand actor best known for his versatile film career, including leading roles in movies such as Jurassic Park and The Piano.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sam Neill as Alisdair Stewart
this entity surface form:
Sam Neill as Michael Chamberlain
this entity surface form:
Sam Neill as David Jenkins