Sam in Casablanca
E887434
Sam in Casablanca is the piano-playing singer from the classic 1942 film "Casablanca," best known for performing the iconic song "As Time Goes By."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam in Casablanca canonical | 1 |
| pianist Sam in Casablanca | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10811910 — 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 in Casablanca Context triple: [Dooley Wilson, notableRole, Sam in Casablanca]
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A.
Rick Blaine
Rick Blaine is the cynical yet ultimately self-sacrificing American nightclub owner portrayed by Humphrey Bogart in the classic film "Casablanca."
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B.
Ter Sami
Ter Sami is a critically endangered Uralic language traditionally spoken by a small Sami community on the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia.
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C.
Chérif
Chérif is a family name of Arabic origin historically associated with notable North African figures such as Ahmed Bey ben Mohamed Chérif.
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D.
Casablanca
Casablanca is a classic 1942 American romantic drama film set during World War II, renowned for its iconic performances, memorable dialogue, and enduring status as one of Hollywood’s greatest movies.
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E.
Casablanca
Casablanca is Morocco’s largest city and economic hub, located on the Atlantic coast of North Africa and known for its major port and modern urban character.
- 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 in Casablanca Target entity description: Sam in Casablanca is the piano-playing singer from the classic 1942 film "Casablanca," best known for performing the iconic song "As Time Goes By."
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A.
Rick Blaine
Rick Blaine is the cynical yet ultimately self-sacrificing American nightclub owner portrayed by Humphrey Bogart in the classic film "Casablanca."
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B.
Ter Sami
Ter Sami is a critically endangered Uralic language traditionally spoken by a small Sami community on the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia.
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C.
Chérif
Chérif is a family name of Arabic origin historically associated with notable North African figures such as Ahmed Bey ben Mohamed Chérif.
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D.
Casablanca
Casablanca is a classic 1942 American romantic drama film set during World War II, renowned for its iconic performances, memorable dialogue, and enduring status as one of Hollywood’s greatest movies.
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E.
Casablanca
Casablanca is Morocco’s largest city and economic hub, located on the Atlantic coast of North Africa and known for its major port and modern urban character.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Casablanca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | character from the play "Everybody Comes to Rick's" ⓘ |
| blackAndWhiteFilm | true ⓘ |
| characterType | supporting character ⓘ |
| closeTo |
Ilsa Lund
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rick Blaine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy |
Joan Alison
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Murray Burnett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creditedActorAlsoMusician | true ⓘ |
| employer | Rick Blaine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Casablanca (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmDirector | Michael Curtiz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmGenre |
drama film
ⓘ
romance film ⓘ war film ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1942 ⓘ |
| filmStudio | Warner Bros. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | romantic drama film ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| loyalTo | Rick Blaine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableQuoteAssociated | Play it, Sam. ⓘ |
| notableWork | performance of "As Time Goes By" ⓘ |
| occupation |
pianist
ⓘ
singer ⓘ |
| performsSong | As Time Goes By NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playsInstrument | piano ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Dooley Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Casablanca, French Morocco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| singsFor |
Ilsa Lund
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rick Blaine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Rick's Café Américain 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 in Casablanca Description of subject: Sam in Casablanca is the piano-playing singer from the classic 1942 film "Casablanca," best known for performing the iconic song "As Time Goes By."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Dooley Wilson
subject surface form:
Dooley Wilson
this entity surface form:
pianist Sam in Casablanca