Sam Spade
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Sam Spade is a hard-boiled private detective and the iconic protagonist of Dashiell Hammett’s novel "The Maltese Falcon," widely regarded as a defining figure in American noir fiction.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sam Spade canonical | 10 |
| Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon (1931 film) | 1 |
| Spade | 1 |
| Spade & Archer detective agency | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T725074 — 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 Spade Context triple: [Humphrey Bogart, portrayedCharacter, Sam Spade]
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A.
Martin Beck
Martin Beck was a prominent early 20th-century American theatrical impresario and vaudeville entrepreneur who played a key role in developing Broadway and national theater circuits.
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B.
James Arthur Monk
James Arthur Monk, better known as Art Monk, is a Hall of Fame former NFL wide receiver renowned for his prolific career with the Washington Redskins and multiple Super Bowl victories.
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C.
C. K. Dexter-Haven
C. K. Dexter-Haven is the charming, witty ex-husband of socialite Tracy Lord in the musical film "High Society," famously portrayed by Bing Crosby.
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D.
Charles Lenox
Charles Lenox was a prominent landowner and early benefactor after whom the town of Lenox, Massachusetts, was named.
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E.
Inspector Olivetti
Inspector Olivetti is a high-ranking Vatican security official in Dan Brown's thriller "Angels & Demons," known for his skeptical, by-the-book approach to the unfolding crisis.
- 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 Spade Target entity description: Sam Spade is a hard-boiled private detective and the iconic protagonist of Dashiell Hammett’s novel "The Maltese Falcon," widely regarded as a defining figure in American noir fiction.
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A.
Martin Beck
Martin Beck was a prominent early 20th-century American theatrical impresario and vaudeville entrepreneur who played a key role in developing Broadway and national theater circuits.
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B.
James Arthur Monk
James Arthur Monk, better known as Art Monk, is a Hall of Fame former NFL wide receiver renowned for his prolific career with the Washington Redskins and multiple Super Bowl victories.
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C.
C. K. Dexter-Haven
C. K. Dexter-Haven is the charming, witty ex-husband of socialite Tracy Lord in the musical film "High Society," famously portrayed by Bing Crosby.
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D.
Charles Lenox
Charles Lenox was a prominent landowner and early benefactor after whom the town of Lenox, Massachusetts, was named.
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E.
Inspector Olivetti
Inspector Olivetti is a high-ranking Vatican security official in Dan Brown's thriller "Angels & Demons," known for his skeptical, by-the-book approach to the unfolding crisis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 Spade Description of subject: Sam Spade is a hard-boiled private detective and the iconic protagonist of Dashiell Hammett’s novel "The Maltese Falcon," widely regarded as a defining figure in American noir fiction.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Maltese Falcon (1941 film)
subject surface form:
Humphrey Bogart
this entity surface form:
Spade & Archer detective agency
this entity surface form:
Spade
this entity surface form:
Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon (1931 film)