Sam Taylor
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Sam Taylor is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the stoner comedy film "Grandma's Boy."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam Taylor canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7809376 — 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 Taylor Context triple: [Grandma's Boy, writtenBy, Sam Taylor]
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A.
Sam Taylor
Sam Taylor was an American film director and screenwriter best known for his work during the silent and early sound eras, including collaborations with comedian Harold Lloyd.
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B.
Elaine Taylor
Elaine Taylor is a British former actress known for her film and television work in the 1960s and 1970s and for her long marriage to Canadian actor Christopher Plummer.
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C.
Ian Taylor
Ian Taylor is a music producer known for his work on Gary Moore’s acclaimed blues-rock album "Still Got the Blues."
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D.
Don Taylor
Don Taylor was an American actor and later film and television director known for roles in classic films such as "Stalag 17" and for directing movies like "Escape from the Planet of the Apes."
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E.
Kelly Taylor
Kelly Taylor is a central fictional character from the television series "Beverly Hills, 90210," known for her complex personal struggles, evolving relationships, and prominent role in the show's depiction of affluent teen life.
- 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 Taylor Target entity description: Sam Taylor is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the stoner comedy film "Grandma's Boy."
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A.
Sam Taylor
Sam Taylor was an American film director and screenwriter best known for his work during the silent and early sound eras, including collaborations with comedian Harold Lloyd.
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B.
Elaine Taylor
Elaine Taylor is a British former actress known for her film and television work in the 1960s and 1970s and for her long marriage to Canadian actor Christopher Plummer.
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C.
Ian Taylor
Ian Taylor is a music producer known for his work on Gary Moore’s acclaimed blues-rock album "Still Got the Blues."
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D.
Don Taylor
Don Taylor was an American actor and later film and television director known for roles in classic films such as "Stalag 17" and for directing movies like "Escape from the Planet of the Apes."
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E.
Kelly Taylor
Kelly Taylor is a central fictional character from the television series "Beverly Hills, 90210," known for her complex personal struggles, evolving relationships, and prominent role in the show's depiction of affluent teen life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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person ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| coWrote | Grandma's Boy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
stoner comedy ⓘ stoner comedy film ⓘ |
| notableWork | Grandma's Boy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| writer | Sam Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Taylor Description of subject: Sam Taylor is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the stoner comedy film "Grandma's Boy."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.