Alex, Inc.
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Alex, Inc. is a short-lived American sitcom about a radio journalist starting his own podcast company, starring Zach Braff.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alex, Inc. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9579258 — 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, Inc. Context triple: [Zach Braff, starredIn, Alex, Inc.]
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A.
Obvious Corporation
Obvious Corporation was the early holding company and development vehicle created by Twitter’s founders that incubated and spun out Twitter as an independent company.
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B.
Lambda Corporation
Lambda Corporation is a company historically associated with physicist Hugh Everett III, known for his work on the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
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C.
Alza Corporation
Alza Corporation was a pioneering pharmaceutical and medical systems company known for developing advanced drug delivery technologies.
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D.
Canada Company
Canada Company was a 19th-century British land development firm that played a major role in colonizing and settling parts of Upper Canada (now Ontario).
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E.
Echo Company
Echo Company is a rifle company within the U.S. Marine Corps’ 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, known for its role in infantry combat operations.
- 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, Inc. Target entity description: Alex, Inc. is a short-lived American sitcom about a radio journalist starting his own podcast company, starring Zach Braff.
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A.
Obvious Corporation
Obvious Corporation was the early holding company and development vehicle created by Twitter’s founders that incubated and spun out Twitter as an independent company.
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B.
Lambda Corporation
Lambda Corporation is a company historically associated with physicist Hugh Everett III, known for his work on the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
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C.
Alza Corporation
Alza Corporation was a pioneering pharmaceutical and medical systems company known for developing advanced drug delivery technologies.
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D.
Canada Company
Canada Company was a 19th-century British land development firm that played a major role in colonizing and settling parts of Upper Canada (now Ontario).
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E.
Echo Company
Echo Company is a rifle company within the U.S. Marine Corps’ 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, known for its role in infantry combat operations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | television series ⓘ |
| basedOn | StartUp podcast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy | Alex Blumberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cameraSetup | single-camera ⓘ |
| characterInSeries |
Alex Schuman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ben Schuman NERFINISHED ⓘ Deirdre NERFINISHED ⓘ Eddie NERFINISHED ⓘ Rooni Schuman NERFINISHED ⓘ Soraya Schuman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Matt Tarses NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAired | 2018-03-28 ⓘ |
| genre | sitcom ⓘ |
| hasFormat | half-hour comedy ⓘ |
| isShortLived | true ⓘ |
| lastAired | 2018-05-16 ⓘ |
| leadCharacterOccupation |
podcast company founder
ⓘ
radio journalist ⓘ |
| mainSubject | radio journalist starting a podcast company ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 10 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 1 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originallyAiredOn | American Broadcasting Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | ABC ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
ABC Studios
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sony Pictures Television NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runtimePerEpisode | approximately 22 minutes ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | contemporary era ⓘ |
| starredActor |
Audyssie James
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elisha Henig NERFINISHED ⓘ Hillary Anne Matthews NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Imperioli NERFINISHED ⓘ Tiya Sircar NERFINISHED ⓘ Zach Braff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | ended ⓘ |
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, Inc. Description of subject: Alex, Inc. is a short-lived American sitcom about a radio journalist starting his own podcast company, starring Zach Braff.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.