Samantha Who?
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Samantha Who? is an American sitcom starring Christina Applegate as a woman with amnesia who tries to reinvent her life after discovering she was previously selfish and unlikeable.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Samantha Who? canonical | 7 |
| Regina Newley in Samantha Who? | 1 |
| Samantha Newly in Samantha Who? | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8851822 — 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: Samantha Who? Context triple: [Jennifer Esposito, notableWork, Samantha Who?]
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A.
Samantha
Samantha is the middle name of the fictional socialite Tracy Samantha Lord from the classic film and play "The Philadelphia Story."
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B.
Samantha
Samantha is an AI character, likely designed as a virtual persona with human-like conversational abilities and personality traits.
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C.
Samantha
Samantha is a central character in the psychological thriller film "Enter Nowhere," where she becomes trapped in a mysterious cabin in the woods alongside two strangers as they unravel a time-bending mystery.
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D.
Samantha
Samantha is a feminine given name of Aramaic origin meaning "listener" or "heard by God," widely used in English-speaking countries.
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E.
Samantha (Attack the Block)
Samantha is a young nurse and one of the central human protagonists trying to survive an alien invasion in the 2011 British sci-fi film "Attack the Block."
- 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: Samantha Who? Target entity description: Samantha Who? is an American sitcom starring Christina Applegate as a woman with amnesia who tries to reinvent her life after discovering she was previously selfish and unlikeable.
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A.
Samantha
Samantha is the middle name of the fictional socialite Tracy Samantha Lord from the classic film and play "The Philadelphia Story."
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B.
Samantha
Samantha is an AI character, likely designed as a virtual persona with human-like conversational abilities and personality traits.
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C.
Samantha
Samantha is a central character in the psychological thriller film "Enter Nowhere," where she becomes trapped in a mysterious cabin in the woods alongside two strangers as they unravel a time-bending mystery.
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D.
Samantha
Samantha is a feminine given name of Aramaic origin meaning "listener" or "heard by God," widely used in English-speaking countries.
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E.
Samantha (Attack the Block)
Samantha is a young nurse and one of the central human protagonists trying to survive an alien invasion in the 2011 British sci-fi film "Attack the Block."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | television series ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series nomination for Christina Applegate
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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for Jean Smart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cameraSetup | single-camera ⓘ |
| character |
Andrea Belladonna
NERFINISHED
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Dena NERFINISHED ⓘ Howard Newly NERFINISHED ⓘ Regina Newly NERFINISHED ⓘ Samantha Newly NERFINISHED ⓘ Todd Deepler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator |
Cecelia Ahern
NERFINISHED
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Donald Todd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| executiveProducer |
Brendon Yorke
NERFINISHED
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Cecelia Ahern NERFINISHED ⓘ Christina Applegate NERFINISHED ⓘ Donald Todd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| finalAired | 2009-07-23 ⓘ |
| firstAired | 2007-10-15 ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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sitcom ⓘ |
| hasOpeningNarrationBy | Christina Applegate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
amnesia
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personal redemption ⓘ self-discovery ⓘ |
| leadActor | Christina Applegate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacterCondition | retrograde amnesia ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | real estate executive ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 35 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 2 ⓘ |
| originalChannel | American Broadcasting Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originallyBroadcastAs | Samantha Be Good NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | ABC ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A woman with retrograde amnesia tries to reinvent her life after discovering she was previously selfish and unlikeable. ⓘ |
| productionCompany | ABC Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runningTimePerEpisode | 22 minutes ⓘ |
| setting | Chicago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Barry Watson
NERFINISHED
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Christina Applegate NERFINISHED ⓘ Jean Smart NERFINISHED ⓘ Jennifer Esposito NERFINISHED ⓘ Kevin Dunn NERFINISHED ⓘ Melissa McCarthy NERFINISHED ⓘ Timothy Olyphant 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: Samantha Who? Description of subject: Samantha Who? is an American sitcom starring Christina Applegate as a woman with amnesia who tries to reinvent her life after discovering she was previously selfish and unlikeable.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Samantha Newly in Samantha Who?
this entity surface form:
Regina Newley in Samantha Who?