Alex Drake
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Alex Drake is the main protagonist of the British television series "Ashes to Ashes," a modern-day police psychologist who finds herself mysteriously transported back to the 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alex Drake canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10396301 — 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 Drake Context triple: [Ashes to Ashes, follows, Alex Drake]
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A.
Tom Drake
Tom Drake was an American film and television actor best known for his role as "The Boy Next Door" opposite Judy Garland in the classic 1944 musical Meet Me in St. Louis.
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B.
Dashiell "Dash" Parr
Dashiell "Dash" Parr is the hyperactive, speed-powered middle child of the superhero Parr family in Pixar's animated film series "The Incredibles."
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C.
Dashiell Robert Parr
Dashiell Robert "Dash" Parr is the super-speed-powered middle child of the Parr family in Pixar's animated film series "The Incredibles."
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D.
Red Thomas
Red Thomas is a fictional mayor of the town of Hill Valley in the "Back to the Future" film series.
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E.
Logan Goodman
Logan Goodman is the longtime spouse of American actor David Strathairn, known for maintaining a private life outside the public spotlight.
- 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 Drake Target entity description: Alex Drake is the main protagonist of the British television series "Ashes to Ashes," a modern-day police psychologist who finds herself mysteriously transported back to the 1980s.
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A.
Tom Drake
Tom Drake was an American film and television actor best known for his role as "The Boy Next Door" opposite Judy Garland in the classic 1944 musical Meet Me in St. Louis.
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B.
Dashiell "Dash" Parr
Dashiell "Dash" Parr is the hyperactive, speed-powered middle child of the superhero Parr family in Pixar's animated film series "The Incredibles."
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C.
Dashiell Robert Parr
Dashiell Robert "Dash" Parr is the super-speed-powered middle child of the Parr family in Pixar's animated film series "The Incredibles."
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D.
Red Thomas
Red Thomas is a fictional mayor of the town of Hill Valley in the "Back to the Future" film series.
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E.
Logan Goodman
Logan Goodman is the longtime spouse of American actor David Strathairn, known for maintaining a private life outside the public spotlight.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Ashes to Ashes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Chris Skelton
NERFINISHED
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Gene Hunt NERFINISHED ⓘ Ray Carling NERFINISHED ⓘ Shaz Granger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnPrecedingSeries | Life on Mars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfSeries | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Ashley Pharoah
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Matthew Graham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Life on Mars / Ashes to Ashes universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfExpertise |
criminal psychology
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psychology ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Ashes to Ashes series 1 episode 1 ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
science fiction ⓘ |
| hasDaughter | Molly Drake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPersonalityTrait |
analytical
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determined ⓘ intelligent ⓘ |
| hasStoryTheme |
coping with trauma
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reality versus illusion ⓘ redemption ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOf | Ashes to Ashes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | television series ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | time travel ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| networkOfOriginalBroadcast | BBC One NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
detective inspector
ⓘ
police psychologist ⓘ |
| originalTimePeriod | early 21st century GENERATED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Keeley Hawes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rank | Detective Inspector ⓘ |
| replacesProtagonistOf | Sam Tyler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seriesDebutYear | 2008 ⓘ |
| seriesEndYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| settingOfWorkplace | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodTransportedTo | 1980s ⓘ |
| worksFor | Metropolitan Police NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Drake Description of subject: Alex Drake is the main protagonist of the British television series "Ashes to Ashes," a modern-day police psychologist who finds herself mysteriously transported back to the 1980s.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.