Alex Cross
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Alex Cross is a fictional Washington, D.C. detective and psychologist who stars as the protagonist in James Patterson’s popular crime thriller novel series and its film adaptations.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alex Cross canonical | 10 |
| Target: Alex Cross | 2 |
| Alex Cross is a detective | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3445620 — 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 Cross Context triple: [Matthew Fox, notableWork, Alex Cross]
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A.
Maxim Knight
Maxim Knight is an American actor best known for his role as Matt Mason on the science fiction television series "Falling Skies."
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B.
Larry Cross
Larry Cross is an actor known for his role in the film "Embassy."
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C.
Jake Hooker
Jake Hooker was an American musician and songwriter best known as the guitarist and co-writer of the hit song "I Love Rock 'n' Roll."
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D.
Sam Grant
Sam Grant is a nickname for Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States and commanding Union general during the American Civil War.
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E.
Anderson Falco
Anderson Falco is the adopted son of American actress Edie Falco, known for her roles in "The Sopranos" and "Nurse Jackie."
- 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 Cross Target entity description: Alex Cross is a fictional Washington, D.C. detective and psychologist who stars as the protagonist in James Patterson’s popular crime thriller novel series and its film adaptations.
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A.
Maxim Knight
Maxim Knight is an American actor best known for his role as Matt Mason on the science fiction television series "Falling Skies."
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B.
Larry Cross
Larry Cross is an actor known for his role in the film "Embassy."
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C.
Jake Hooker
Jake Hooker was an American musician and songwriter best known as the guitarist and co-writer of the hit song "I Love Rock 'n' Roll."
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D.
Sam Grant
Sam Grant is a nickname for Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States and commanding Union general during the American Civil War.
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E.
Anderson Falco
Anderson Falco is the adopted son of American actress Edie Falco, known for her roles in "The Sopranos" and "Nurse Jackie."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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 Cross Description of subject: Alex Cross is a fictional Washington, D.C. detective and psychologist who stars as the protagonist in James Patterson’s popular crime thriller novel series and its film adaptations.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Target: Alex Cross
this entity surface form:
Alex Cross is a detective
this entity surface form:
Target: Alex Cross