Nathan Bateman
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Nathan Bateman is the reclusive, manipulative tech billionaire and AI creator in the science fiction film "Ex Machina."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nathan Bateman canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3626737 — 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: Nathan Bateman Context triple: [Oscar Isaac, playedCharacter, Nathan Bateman]
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A.
Nathan Johnson
Nathan Johnson is an American film composer and musician best known for his innovative, experimental scores for director Rian Johnson’s movies, including "Brick," "Looper," and "Knives Out."
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B.
Nathan Maloney
Nathan Maloney is a central teenage character in the British TV drama "Queer as Folk," known for exploring his sexuality and identity within Manchester’s gay scene.
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C.
Nathan Strayer
Nathan Strayer is a musician best known for his past role as a member of the American alternative rock band Anberlin.
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D.
Nathaniel Moran
Nathaniel Moran is a Republican politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 1st congressional district.
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E.
Connor Jessup
Connor Jessup is a Canadian actor and filmmaker best known for his roles in the TV series "Falling Skies" and "Locke & Key."
- 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: Nathan Bateman Target entity description: Nathan Bateman is the reclusive, manipulative tech billionaire and AI creator in the science fiction film "Ex Machina."
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A.
Nathan Johnson
Nathan Johnson is an American film composer and musician best known for his innovative, experimental scores for director Rian Johnson’s movies, including "Brick," "Looper," and "Knives Out."
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B.
Nathan Maloney
Nathan Maloney is a central teenage character in the British TV drama "Queer as Folk," known for exploring his sexuality and identity within Manchester’s gay scene.
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C.
Nathan Strayer
Nathan Strayer is a musician best known for his past role as a member of the American alternative rock band Anberlin.
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D.
Nathaniel Moran
Nathaniel Moran is a Republican politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 1st congressional district.
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E.
Connor Jessup
Connor Jessup is a Canadian actor and filmmaker best known for his roles in the TV series "Falling Skies" and "Locke & Key."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Ex Machina ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | science fiction film ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
artificial intelligence ethics
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creator-creation relationship ⓘ power imbalance ⓘ surveillance ⓘ |
| communicationLanguage | English ⓘ |
| conducts | Turing-test-like experiments ⓘ |
| controls |
Ava's environment
ⓘ
access to the research facility ⓘ |
| createdBy | Alex Garland ⓘ |
| creatorOf |
Ava
ⓘ
Kyoko ⓘ multiple humanoid AI prototypes ⓘ |
| deathInWork | killed by Ava ⓘ |
| employer | Blue Book ⓘ |
| filmProductionCountry |
United Kingdom
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United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| firstAppearance |
Ex Machina (2014 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Ex Machina
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| nationality | American (implied) ⓘ |
| notableFor | developing advanced artificial intelligence ⓘ |
| notableScene | dance scene with Kyoko ⓘ |
| occupation |
artificial intelligence researcher
ⓘ
programmer ⓘ tech CEO ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
controlling
ⓘ
manipulative ⓘ narcissistic ⓘ paranoid ⓘ reclusive ⓘ |
| physicalActivity |
drinking alcohol
ⓘ
weightlifting ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Oscar Isaac ⓘ |
| position |
CEO of Blue Book
ⓘ
founder of Blue Book ⓘ |
| relationshipWith | Caleb Smith ⓘ |
| residence |
isolated high-tech estate
ⓘ
remote research facility ⓘ |
| roleInPlot | antagonist ⓘ |
| settingOfCharacter | near-future tech world ⓘ |
| tests | Ava ⓘ |
| usesTechnology |
artificial intelligence
ⓘ
humanoid robots ⓘ surveillance systems ⓘ |
| wealthStatus | billionaire ⓘ |
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: Nathan Bateman Description of subject: Nathan Bateman is the reclusive, manipulative tech billionaire and AI creator in the science fiction film "Ex Machina."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.