Alexander Cary
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Alexander Cary is a British television producer and writer best known for his work on the acclaimed espionage drama series "Homeland."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alexander Cary canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2458848 — 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: Alexander Cary Context triple: [Homeland, executiveProducer, Alexander Cary]
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A.
Charles Cabell
Charles Cabell was a U.S. Air Force general who served as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency during the early Cold War era.
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B.
John Glover
John Glover was an American Revolutionary War officer and mariner best known for leading the Marblehead Regiment and helping George Washington cross the Delaware River.
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C.
Robert Jenkins
Robert Jenkins was an 18th-century British sea captain whose alleged mutilation by Spanish coast guards became the pretext for the War of Jenkins' Ear between Britain and Spain.
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D.
Thomas Graves Cary
Thomas Graves Cary was a 19th-century Boston lawyer and civic leader associated with prominent New England families.
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E.
George Bullough
George Bullough was a wealthy British industrialist and landowner best known for owning and lavishly developing the Scottish island of Rum in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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: Alexander Cary Target entity description: Alexander Cary is a British television producer and writer best known for his work on the acclaimed espionage drama series "Homeland."
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A.
Charles Cabell
Charles Cabell was a U.S. Air Force general who served as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency during the early Cold War era.
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B.
John Glover
John Glover was an American Revolutionary War officer and mariner best known for leading the Marblehead Regiment and helping George Washington cross the Delaware River.
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C.
Robert Jenkins
Robert Jenkins was an 18th-century British sea captain whose alleged mutilation by Spanish coast guards became the pretext for the War of Jenkins' Ear between Britain and Spain.
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D.
Thomas Graves Cary
Thomas Graves Cary was a 19th-century Boston lawyer and civic leader associated with prominent New England families.
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E.
George Bullough
George Bullough was a wealthy British industrialist and landowner best known for owning and lavishly developing the Scottish island of Rum in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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screenwriter ⓘ television producer ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United Kingdom
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United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| fieldOfWork |
screenwriting
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television production ⓘ television writing ⓘ |
| genre | espionage drama ⓘ |
| hasRole |
producer on Homeland
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writer on Homeland ⓘ |
| knownFor | Homeland ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Alexander Cary ⓘ |
| nationality | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| notableAwardNomination |
Primetime Emmy Awards (as part of Homeland production team)
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linked to:
Primetime Emmy Award nomination
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| notableGenre |
drama
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thriller ⓘ |
| notableWork | Homeland ⓘ |
| occupation |
screenwriter
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television producer ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| worksIn | television industry ⓘ |
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: Alexander Cary Description of subject: Alexander Cary is a British television producer and writer best known for his work on the acclaimed espionage drama series "Homeland."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.