Sam (About Time)
E190458
Sam is a character from the romantic comedy-drama film "About Time," portrayed by actor Bill Nighy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam (About Time) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1678675 — 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 (About Time) Context triple: [Bill Nighy, characterPortrayed, Sam (About Time)]
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A.
Timothy
Timothy is a prominent early Christian companion and protégé of the Apostle Paul, known from the New Testament for his missionary work and pastoral leadership.
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B.
Timothy
Timothy is the given first name of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web.
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C.
Colin
Colin is a masculine given name of Irish and Scottish origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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D.
Liam
Liam is a popular masculine given name of Irish origin, commonly understood as a short form of William.
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E.
Noel
"Noel" is a critically acclaimed episode of *The West Wing* centered on Josh Lyman’s struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder during the holiday season.
- 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 (About Time) Target entity description: Sam is a character from the romantic comedy-drama film "About Time," portrayed by actor Bill Nighy.
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A.
Timothy
Timothy is the given first name of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web.
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B.
Timothy
Timothy is a prominent early Christian companion and protégé of the Apostle Paul, known from the New Testament for his missionary work and pastoral leadership.
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C.
Colin
Colin is a masculine given name of Irish and Scottish origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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D.
Liam
Liam is a popular masculine given name of Irish origin, commonly understood as a short form of William.
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E.
Noel
Noel is the middle name of Charles Noel Carnegie, the 10th Earl of Southesk, a Scottish nobleman of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| abilityInStory | time travel ⓘ |
| appearsIn | About Time ⓘ |
| centralThemeConnection |
appreciation of everyday life
ⓘ
family relationships ⓘ use of time ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Richard Curtis ⓘ |
| familyRelationType | father ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
About Time
ⓘ
surface form:
About Time universe
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| genreOfWork | romantic comedy-drama film ⓘ |
| givesAdviceTo | Tim Lake ⓘ |
| hasFamilyRelation | Tim Lake ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| name | Sam ⓘ |
| nationalityInStory | British ⓘ |
| occupationInStory | retired teacher ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
humorous
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supportive ⓘ wise ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Bill Nighy ⓘ |
| portrayedByInLanguage |
Bill Nighy
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surface form:
Bill Nighy (original English version)
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| residenceInStory |
Cornwall
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surface form:
Cornwall, England
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| timeTravelMethod | through the male line of his family ⓘ |
| yearOfWorkRelease | 2013 ⓘ |
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 (About Time) Description of subject: Sam is a character from the romantic comedy-drama film "About Time," portrayed by actor Bill Nighy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.