Sam Cahill
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Sam Cahill is a central character in the film "Brothers," portrayed as a troubled ex-convict whose return home after his brother’s presumed death strains and reshapes his family relationships.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam Cahill canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10708327 — 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 Cahill Context triple: [Brothers, mainCharacter, Sam Cahill]
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A.
Joe Cahill
Joe Cahill was a prominent Irish republican and senior Provisional IRA leader who played a key role in the Northern Ireland conflict.
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B.
Ed McCauley
Ed McCauley is a Canadian academic and research leader who serves as president of the University of Calgary.
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C.
Ian Dunn
Ian Dunn is a British actor known for his work in television, film, and theatre, and for being married to the late actress Emma Chambers.
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D.
Glenn Cullen
Glenn Cullen is a beleaguered political adviser in the British satirical television series "The Thick of It," known for his earnestness, anxiety, and frequent misfortune within the brutal world of government spin.
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E.
Joe Tonahill
Joe Tonahill was an American defense attorney best known for serving on the legal team that defended Jack Ruby after Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald.
- 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 Cahill Target entity description: Sam Cahill is a central character in the film "Brothers," portrayed as a troubled ex-convict whose return home after his brother’s presumed death strains and reshapes his family relationships.
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A.
Joe Cahill
Joe Cahill was a prominent Irish republican and senior Provisional IRA leader who played a key role in the Northern Ireland conflict.
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B.
Ed McCauley
Ed McCauley is a Canadian academic and research leader who serves as president of the University of Calgary.
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C.
Ian Dunn
Ian Dunn is a British actor known for his work in television, film, and theatre, and for being married to the late actress Emma Chambers.
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D.
Glenn Cullen
Glenn Cullen is a beleaguered political adviser in the British satirical television series "The Thick of It," known for his earnestness, anxiety, and frequent misfortune within the brutal world of government spin.
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E.
Joe Tonahill
Joe Tonahill was an American defense attorney best known for serving on the legal team that defended Jack Ruby after Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Brothers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInYearOfRelease | 2009 ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
family conflict
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guilt ⓘ post-traumatic stress disorder ⓘ redemption ⓘ |
| basedOnCharacterFrom | Brothers (2004 Danish film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflictContext | War in Afghanistan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| directorOfWorkAppearedIn | Jim Sheridan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Cahill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | war drama film ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Isabelle Cahill
NERFINISHED
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Maggie Cahill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Elsie Cahill
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hank Cahill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Tommy Cahill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Grace Cahill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| militaryStatusInStory | U.S. Marine officer ⓘ |
| narrativeArc |
experiences severe strain in family relationships
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returns home after being presumed dead ⓘ struggles with psychological trauma ⓘ |
| occupation | ex-convict ⓘ |
| portrayedInFilmBy | Tobey Maguire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative | central character ⓘ |
| screenwriterOfWorkAppearedIn | David Benioff 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 Cahill Description of subject: Sam Cahill is a central character in the film "Brothers," portrayed as a troubled ex-convict whose return home after his brother’s presumed death strains and reshapes his family relationships.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.