Alex Cox
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Alex Cox is a British film director and screenwriter best known for his cult classics like "Repo Man" and "Sid and Nancy," as well as his work in independent and punk-influenced cinema.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alex Cox canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3659056 — 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: Alex Cox Context triple: [Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, screenwriter, Alex Cox]
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A.
Julian Winding
Julian Winding is a Danish musician and composer known for his electronic and synth-driven work, including contributions to film soundtracks.
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B.
Michael Caton-Jones
Michael Caton-Jones is a Scottish film director known for works such as "Scandal," "Rob Roy," and "The Jackal."
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C.
Guy Ritchie
Guy Ritchie is a British film director and screenwriter best known for his fast-paced, stylized crime comedies such as "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels," "Snatch," and "The Gentlemen."
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D.
Roger Donaldson
Roger Donaldson is a New Zealand-born film director known for helming a range of high-profile thrillers and dramas in Hollywood, including titles like "No Way Out," "Thirteen Days," and "The World's Fastest Indian."
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E.
Tony Kaye
Tony Kaye is a British film director and cinematographer best known for directing the critically acclaimed drama "American History X."
- 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: Alex Cox Target entity description: Alex Cox is a British film director and screenwriter best known for his cult classics like "Repo Man" and "Sid and Nancy," as well as his work in independent and punk-influenced cinema.
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A.
Julian Winding
Julian Winding is a Danish musician and composer known for his electronic and synth-driven work, including contributions to film soundtracks.
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B.
Michael Caton-Jones
Michael Caton-Jones is a Scottish film director known for works such as "Scandal," "Rob Roy," and "The Jackal."
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C.
Guy Ritchie
Guy Ritchie is a British film director and screenwriter best known for his fast-paced, stylized crime comedies such as "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels," "Snatch," and "The Gentlemen."
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D.
Roger Donaldson
Roger Donaldson is a New Zealand-born film director known for helming a range of high-profile thrillers and dramas in Hollywood, including titles like "No Way Out," "Thirteen Days," and "The World's Fastest Indian."
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E.
Tony Kaye
Tony Kaye is a British film director and cinematographer best known for directing the critically acclaimed drama "American History X."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Alex Cox Description of subject: Alex Cox is a British film director and screenwriter best known for his cult classics like "Repo Man" and "Sid and Nancy," as well as his work in independent and punk-influenced cinema.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
film "Sid and Nancy"
subject linked to:
film "Sid and Nancy"
subject linked to:
David Martin