Proxy Alan Snyder
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Proxy Alan Snyder is a central character in the science fiction TV series "Colony," serving as a politically savvy and morally ambiguous official collaborating with the alien-backed occupation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Proxy Alan Snyder canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9385755 — 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: Proxy Alan Snyder Context triple: [Colony, mainCharacter, Proxy Alan Snyder]
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A.
Agent Halpern
Agent Halpern is a government intelligence operative in the science fiction film "Arrival," involved in managing the response to the mysterious alien visitation.
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B.
Agent Joshua Kohn
Agent Joshua Kohn is a federal law enforcement officer and Tara Knowles’ obsessive ex-boyfriend in the television series "Sons of Anarchy."
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C.
Agent P
Agent P is the secret-agent alter ego of Perry the Platypus in the animated series "Phineas and Ferb," known for battling the evil scientist Dr. Doofenshmirtz.
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D.
Mark Hoffman
Mark Hoffman is a fictional serial killer and primary antagonist in the "Saw" horror film franchise, known for continuing Jigsaw’s deadly games.
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E.
Alec Scudder
Alec Scudder is a working-class gamekeeper who becomes the passionate love interest of the title character in E.M. Forster’s novel "Maurice."
- 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: Proxy Alan Snyder Target entity description: Proxy Alan Snyder is a central character in the science fiction TV series "Colony," serving as a politically savvy and morally ambiguous official collaborating with the alien-backed occupation.
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A.
Agent Halpern
Agent Halpern is a government intelligence operative in the science fiction film "Arrival," involved in managing the response to the mysterious alien visitation.
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B.
Agent Joshua Kohn
Agent Joshua Kohn is a federal law enforcement officer and Tara Knowles’ obsessive ex-boyfriend in the television series "Sons of Anarchy."
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C.
Agent P
Agent P is the secret-agent alter ego of Perry the Platypus in the animated series "Phineas and Ferb," known for battling the evil scientist Dr. Doofenshmirtz.
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D.
Mark Hoffman
Mark Hoffman is a fictional serial killer and primary antagonist in the "Saw" horror film franchise, known for continuing Jigsaw’s deadly games.
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E.
Alec Scudder
Alec Scudder is a working-class gamekeeper who becomes the passionate love interest of the title character in E.M. Forster’s novel "Maurice."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Occupation government
ⓘ
Transitional Authority NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alignment | collaborator with occupying forces ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Colony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Los Angeles Bloc government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterArcTheme |
moral compromise under occupation
ⓘ
survival through collaboration ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith | alien-backed occupation ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdForWork | Colony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator |
Carlton Cuse
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ryan J. Condal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Colony universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceWork | Colony season 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
manipulative
ⓘ
opportunistic ⓘ pragmatic ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| loyalty | primarily to his own survival ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | antagonist-ally hybrid ⓘ |
| networkOfOriginalBroadcast | USA Network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
morally ambiguous
ⓘ
politically savvy ⓘ |
| occupation |
Proxy Governor
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| partOf | Colony main cast ensemble ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Peter Jacobson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Proxy Governor of the Los Angeles Bloc NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInPlot | central character in the occupation government ⓘ |
| seriesDebutYear | 2016 ⓘ |
| settingCity | Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workOfFictionType | TV series character ⓘ |
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: Proxy Alan Snyder Description of subject: Proxy Alan Snyder is a central character in the science fiction TV series "Colony," serving as a politically savvy and morally ambiguous official collaborating with the alien-backed occupation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Colony