Kent Alterman
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Kent Alterman is an American film and television executive and director best known for his work in comedy, including directing the basketball satire "Semi-Pro" and leading programming at Comedy Central.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kent Alterman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3621478 — 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: Kent Alterman Context triple: [Semi-Pro, director, Kent Alterman]
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A.
James Altman
James Altman is the son of American lawyer and video game executive Robert A. Altman.
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B.
Alan Rothenberg
Alan Rothenberg is an American sports executive and attorney best known for his leadership roles in U.S. soccer, including helping bring and organize the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the United States.
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C.
Don Katz
Don Katz is an American entrepreneur and author best known as the founder of the audiobook and spoken-word entertainment company Audible.
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D.
Dan Lebental
Dan Lebental is an American film editor best known for his long-time collaboration with director Jon Favreau on major studio films such as the Iron Man series.
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E.
Michael Gelman
Michael Gelman is a longtime American television producer best known for his work shaping and overseeing the daytime talk show "Live!" through its various host pairings.
- 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: Kent Alterman Target entity description: Kent Alterman is an American film and television executive and director best known for his work in comedy, including directing the basketball satire "Semi-Pro" and leading programming at Comedy Central.
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A.
James Altman
James Altman is the son of American lawyer and video game executive Robert A. Altman.
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B.
Alan Rothenberg
Alan Rothenberg is an American sports executive and attorney best known for his leadership roles in U.S. soccer, including helping bring and organize the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the United States.
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C.
Don Katz
Don Katz is an American entrepreneur and author best known as the founder of the audiobook and spoken-word entertainment company Audible.
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D.
Dan Lebental
Dan Lebental is an American film editor best known for his long-time collaboration with director Jon Favreau on major studio films such as the Iron Man series.
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E.
Michael Gelman
Michael Gelman is a longtime American television producer best known for his work shaping and overseeing the daytime talk show "Live!" through its various host pairings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
film director ⓘ human ⓘ media executive ⓘ television executive ⓘ |
| directed |
"Semi-Pro"
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linked to:
Semi-Pro
|
| employer | Comedy Central ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
comedy programming
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film directing ⓘ television programming ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| industry |
entertainment industry
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film industry ⓘ television industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
directing the film "Semi-Pro"
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leadership at Comedy Central ⓘ work in comedy ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | overseeing original programming at Comedy Central ⓘ |
| notableWork |
"Semi-Pro"
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linked to:
Semi-Pro
|
| occupation |
film director
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media executive ⓘ producer ⓘ television executive ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
President of Comedy Central
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President of Content Development at Comedy Central ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
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: Kent Alterman Description of subject: Kent Alterman is an American film and television executive and director best known for his work in comedy, including directing the basketball satire "Semi-Pro" and leading programming at Comedy Central.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.