Alex Gansa
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Alex Gansa is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating and showrunning the acclaimed political thriller series "Homeland."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alex Gansa canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2458815 — 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)
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Target entity: Alex Gansa Context triple: [Homeland, creator, Alex Gansa]
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A.
Michael Cuesta
Michael Cuesta is an American film and television director and producer known for his work on series such as Homeland, Dexter, and Six Feet Under.
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B.
Chris Weitz
Chris Weitz is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer known for directing films such as "About a Boy" and "The Golden Compass" and for co-directing "American Pie."
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C.
J. C. Chandor
J. C. Chandor is an American filmmaker known for writing and directing character-driven dramas and thrillers such as "Margin Call," "All Is Lost," and "A Most Violent Year."
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D.
Oren Moverman
Oren Moverman is an Israeli-American screenwriter and director known for his work on acclaimed films such as "I'm Not There," "The Messenger," and "Rampart."
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E.
Dan Goor
Dan Goor is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating the comedy series "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" and his work on shows like "Parks and Recreation."
- 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 Gansa Target entity description: Alex Gansa is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating and showrunning the acclaimed political thriller series "Homeland."
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A.
Michael Cuesta
Michael Cuesta is an American film and television director and producer known for his work on series such as Homeland, Dexter, and Six Feet Under.
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B.
Chris Weitz
Chris Weitz is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer known for directing films such as "About a Boy" and "The Golden Compass" and for co-directing "American Pie."
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C.
J. C. Chandor
J. C. Chandor is an American filmmaker known for writing and directing character-driven dramas and thrillers such as "Margin Call," "All Is Lost," and "A Most Violent Year."
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D.
Oren Moverman
Oren Moverman is an Israeli-American screenwriter and director known for his work on acclaimed films such as "I'm Not There," "The Messenger," and "Rampart."
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E.
Dan Goor
Dan Goor is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating the comedy series "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" and his work on shows like "Parks and Recreation."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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screenwriter ⓘ television producer ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | Prisoners of War (Israeli TV series) ⓘ |
| coCreatorOf | Homeland ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| education | Princeton University ⓘ |
| employer | Showtime ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
television production
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television writing ⓘ |
| genre |
drama television
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political thriller television series ⓘ |
| industry | television industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-creating Homeland
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showrunning Homeland ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
24
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Beauty and the Beast (1987 TV series) ⓘ Dawson's Creek ⓘ Homeland ⓘ The X-Files ⓘ Wolf Lake ⓘ |
| occupation |
screenwriter
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television producer ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| showrunnerOf | Homeland ⓘ |
| workLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
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 Gansa Description of subject: Alex Gansa is an American television writer and producer best known for co-creating and showrunning the acclaimed political thriller series "Homeland."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.