Sam McCloud in McCloud
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Sam McCloud is the folksy New Mexico deputy marshal turned fish-out-of-water detective in New York City at the center of the 1970s crime drama series "McCloud."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam McCloud in McCloud canonical | 1 |
| television series McCloud | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9794097 — 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 McCloud in McCloud Context triple: [Dennis Weaver, role, Sam McCloud in McCloud]
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A.
Jack McFarland
Jack McFarland is a flamboyant, aspiring actor and Will Truman’s exuberant best friend on the sitcom "Will & Grace," known for his over-the-top personality and comedic antics.
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B.
Brewster McCloud
Brewster McCloud is a 1970 surreal comedy film directed by Robert Altman about a reclusive young man living in the Houston Astrodome who dreams of building a pair of wings to fly.
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C.
Bret Maverick
Bret Maverick is a charming, quick-witted professional gambler and con man from the classic Western television series "Maverick," famously portrayed by James Garner.
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D.
Bart Maverick
Bart Maverick is a fictional professional gambler and charming con man from the classic Western television series "Maverick," known as one of the Maverick brothers alongside Bret.
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E.
Jim Rockford
Jim Rockford is the wisecracking, down-on-his-luck private investigator protagonist of the 1970s television series "The Rockford Files," portrayed by James Garner.
- 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 McCloud in McCloud Target entity description: Sam McCloud is the folksy New Mexico deputy marshal turned fish-out-of-water detective in New York City at the center of the 1970s crime drama series "McCloud."
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A.
Jack McFarland
Jack McFarland is a flamboyant, aspiring actor and Will Truman’s exuberant best friend on the sitcom "Will & Grace," known for his over-the-top personality and comedic antics.
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B.
Brewster McCloud
Brewster McCloud is a 1970 surreal comedy film directed by Robert Altman about a reclusive young man living in the Houston Astrodome who dreams of building a pair of wings to fly.
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C.
Bret Maverick
Bret Maverick is a charming, quick-witted professional gambler and con man from the classic Western television series "Maverick," famously portrayed by James Garner.
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D.
Bart Maverick
Bart Maverick is a fictional professional gambler and charming con man from the classic Western television series "Maverick," known as one of the Maverick brothers alongside Bret.
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E.
Jim Rockford
Jim Rockford is the wisecracking, down-on-his-luck private investigator protagonist of the 1970s television series "The Rockford Files," portrayed by James Garner.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | McCloud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | NYPD NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| catchphrase | There you go. ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
folksy
ⓘ
resourceful ⓘ unconventional ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Herman Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | New Mexico Territorial Police NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | McCloud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | McCloud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | McCloud (1970 television pilot) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Sam McCloud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
police procedural ⓘ |
| givenName | Sam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| networkOfOriginalBroadcast | NBC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Western lawman persona in urban setting
ⓘ
fish-out-of-water perspective in New York City ⓘ |
| occupation |
deputy marshal
ⓘ
detective ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | New Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Dennis Weaver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seriesDebutYear | 1970 ⓘ |
| setting | Manhattan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| uses |
Western-style clothing
ⓘ
cowboy hat ⓘ revolver ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| worksWith |
Chief Peter Clifford
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sergeant Joe Broadhurst 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 McCloud in McCloud Description of subject: Sam McCloud is the folksy New Mexico deputy marshal turned fish-out-of-water detective in New York City at the center of the 1970s crime drama series "McCloud."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
television series McCloud