Sam Robards
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Sam Robards is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, and as the son of actors Lauren Bacall and Jason Robards.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam Robards canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3875275 — 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 Robards Context triple: [Lauren Bacall, child, Sam Robards]
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A.
William Davis
William Davis was a settler who is historically remembered as one of the notable victims killed during the 1862 Indian Creek massacre in Illinois.
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B.
Bill Clement
Bill Clement is a former NHL center who became a prominent American television hockey analyst and commentator.
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C.
Armistead Burwell
Armistead Burwell was an American jurist who served as a justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court in the late 19th century.
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D.
John W. Gardner
John W. Gardner was an American reformer, educator, and public official best known for serving as U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and for founding the citizens’ advocacy organization Common Cause.
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E.
George Nicholas
George Nicholas was an influential Virginia lawyer and politician who played a key role in advocating for the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
- 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 Robards Target entity description: Sam Robards is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, and as the son of actors Lauren Bacall and Jason Robards.
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A.
William Davis
William Davis was a settler who is historically remembered as one of the notable victims killed during the 1862 Indian Creek massacre in Illinois.
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B.
Bill Clement
Bill Clement is a former NHL center who became a prominent American television hockey analyst and commentator.
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C.
Armistead Burwell
Armistead Burwell was an American jurist who served as a justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court in the late 19th century.
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D.
John W. Gardner
John W. Gardner was an American reformer, educator, and public official best known for serving as U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and for founding the citizens’ advocacy organization Common Cause.
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E.
George Nicholas
George Nicholas was an influential Virginia lawyer and politician who played a key role in advocating for the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Robards ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| givenName | Sam ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Sam Robards self-link ⓘ |
| notableFamily |
Bacall family
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Robards family ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
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American Beauty ⓘ Bright Lights, Big City ⓘ Casualties of War ⓘ Fandango ⓘ Gossip Girl ⓘ Law & Order ⓘ Sex and the City (TV series) ⓘ
surface form:
Sex and the City
The Art of War ⓘ The West Wing (TV series) ⓘ
surface form:
The West Wing
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| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| parent |
Jason Robards
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Lauren Bacall ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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 Robards Description of subject: Sam Robards is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, and as the son of actors Lauren Bacall and Jason Robards.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lauren Bacall