David Alexander
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David Alexander is a character in James Baldwin's play "The Amen Corner," which explores faith, family conflict, and the Black church in mid-20th-century Harlem.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Alexander canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3288454 — 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: David Alexander Context triple: [The Amen Corner, hasCharacter, David Alexander]
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A.
Alexander Haddow
Alexander Haddow was a Scottish epidemiologist and virologist noted for his pioneering research on insect-borne viruses, particularly in Africa.
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B.
Alexander Lester
Alexander Lester is an actor known for portraying the iconic Shakespearean character Lady Macbeth.
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C.
Alexander Parris
Alexander Parris was a prominent 19th-century American architect and engineer best known for his austere Greek Revival and early granite public buildings in New England.
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D.
Ian Bryce
Ian Bryce is a British film producer known for his work on major Hollywood blockbusters such as Saving Private Ryan and the Transformers series.
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E.
Will Alexander
Will Alexander is one of the children of American politician and former U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander.
- 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: David Alexander Target entity description: David Alexander is a character in James Baldwin's play "The Amen Corner," which explores faith, family conflict, and the Black church in mid-20th-century Harlem.
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A.
Alexander Haddow
Alexander Haddow was a Scottish epidemiologist and virologist noted for his pioneering research on insect-borne viruses, particularly in Africa.
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B.
Alexander Lester
Alexander Lester is an actor known for portraying the iconic Shakespearean character Lady Macbeth.
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C.
Alexander Parris
Alexander Parris was a prominent 19th-century American architect and engineer best known for his austere Greek Revival and early granite public buildings in New England.
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D.
Ian Bryce
Ian Bryce is a British film producer known for his work on major Hollywood blockbusters such as Saving Private Ryan and the Transformers series.
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E.
Will Alexander
Will Alexander is one of the children of American politician and former U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
theatrical character ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | drama ⓘ |
| appearsInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| appearsInSetting | Harlem ⓘ |
| appearsInSettingPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
Black church
ⓘ
faith ⓘ family conflict ⓘ |
| characterInPlay | The Amen Corner ⓘ |
| createdBy | James Baldwin ⓘ |
| hasLastName | Alexander ⓘ |
| partOfWorkExploring |
African American religious life
ⓘ
family dynamics in Harlem ⓘ |
| workAuthor | James Baldwin ⓘ |
| workAuthorEthnicity | African American ⓘ |
| workAuthorNationality | American ⓘ |
| workFirstProducedYear | 1954 ⓘ |
| workMedium | stage play ⓘ |
| workTitle | The Amen Corner ⓘ |
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: David Alexander Description of subject: David Alexander is a character in James Baldwin's play "The Amen Corner," which explores faith, family conflict, and the Black church in mid-20th-century Harlem.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.