Sam McMurray
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Sam McMurray is an American character actor known for his comedic and supporting roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like "Drop Dead Gorgeous," "Raising Arizona," and "The Simpsons."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam McMurray canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4560149 — 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 McMurray Context triple: [Drop Dead Gorgeous, castMember, Sam McMurray]
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A.
Matt Stine
Matt Stine is a music producer and orchestrator known for his work on major Broadway productions, including Moulin Rouge! The Musical.
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B.
Ryan Brant
Ryan Brant was an American businessman best known as the founding CEO of video game publisher Take-Two Interactive, the company behind major franchises like Grand Theft Auto.
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C.
Dylan Tichenor
Dylan Tichenor is an American film editor known for his work on acclaimed films such as "There Will Be Blood," "Boogie Nights," and "The Royal Tenenbaums."
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D.
Dylan Highsmith
Dylan Highsmith is a film editor best known for his work on major action and science-fiction movies, including Pacific Rim: Uprising.
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E.
Donavon Frankenreiter
Donavon Frankenreiter is an American singer-songwriter and surfer known for his laid-back, folk-rock sound and close association with Jack Johnson and the surf music scene.
- 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 McMurray Target entity description: Sam McMurray is an American character actor known for his comedic and supporting roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like "Drop Dead Gorgeous," "Raising Arizona," and "The Simpsons."
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A.
Matt Stine
Matt Stine is a music producer and orchestrator known for his work on major Broadway productions, including Moulin Rouge! The Musical.
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B.
Ryan Brant
Ryan Brant was an American businessman best known as the founding CEO of video game publisher Take-Two Interactive, the company behind major franchises like Grand Theft Auto.
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C.
Dylan Tichenor
Dylan Tichenor is an American film editor known for his work on acclaimed films such as "There Will Be Blood," "Boogie Nights," and "The Royal Tenenbaums."
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D.
Dylan Highsmith
Dylan Highsmith is a film editor best known for his work on major action and science-fiction movies, including Pacific Rim: Uprising.
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E.
Donavon Frankenreiter
Donavon Frankenreiter is an American singer-songwriter and surfer known for his laid-back, folk-rock sound and close association with Jack Johnson and the surf music scene.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
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television ⓘ voice acting ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1952-04-15 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| hasWorkedOn |
Addams Family Values
NERFINISHED
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Drop Dead Gorgeous NERFINISHED ⓘ Freaks and Geeks NERFINISHED ⓘ L.A. Story NERFINISHED ⓘ National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation NERFINISHED ⓘ Raising Arizona NERFINISHED ⓘ The King of Queens NERFINISHED ⓘ The Simpsons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
comedic roles
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supporting roles ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableRole |
appeared as a supporting character in Drop Dead Gorgeous
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appeared as a supporting character in Raising Arizona ⓘ voiced a character on The Simpsons ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Addams Family Values
NERFINISHED
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Christmas Vacation NERFINISHED ⓘ Drop Dead Gorgeous NERFINISHED ⓘ Freaks and Geeks NERFINISHED ⓘ L.A. Story NERFINISHED ⓘ National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation NERFINISHED ⓘ Raising Arizona NERFINISHED ⓘ The King of Queens NERFINISHED ⓘ The Simpsons NERFINISHED ⓘ The Tracey Ullman Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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voice actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
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 McMurray Description of subject: Sam McMurray is an American character actor known for his comedic and supporting roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like "Drop Dead Gorgeous," "Raising Arizona," and "The Simpsons."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.