Alexander Rose
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Alexander Rose is a historian and author best known for his book "Washington's Spies," which inspired the television series "Turn: Washington's Spies."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alexander Rose canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2651441 — 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: Alexander Rose Context triple: [Turn: Washington's Spies, authorOfSourceWork, Alexander Rose]
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A.
Andrew Solt
Andrew Solt was a Hungarian-American screenwriter and producer best known for his work on mid-20th-century films and later for creating music-related documentaries and television programs.
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B.
Alexander Nolan
Alexander Nolan is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Nolan.
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C.
Alan Marshall
Alan Marshall is a British film producer known for his work on notable movies including the musical gangster film "Bugsy Malone."
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D.
Alexander Haddow
Alexander Haddow was a Scottish epidemiologist and virologist noted for his pioneering research on insect-borne viruses, particularly in Africa.
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E.
Andrew Lesnie
Andrew Lesnie was an Australian cinematographer best known for his Oscar-winning work on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
- 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: Alexander Rose Target entity description: Alexander Rose is a historian and author best known for his book "Washington's Spies," which inspired the television series "Turn: Washington's Spies."
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A.
Andrew Solt
Andrew Solt was a Hungarian-American screenwriter and producer best known for his work on mid-20th-century films and later for creating music-related documentaries and television programs.
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B.
Alexander Nolan
Alexander Nolan is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Nolan.
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C.
Alan Marshall
Alan Marshall is a British film producer known for his work on notable movies including the musical gangster film "Bugsy Malone."
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D.
Alexander Haddow
Alexander Haddow was a Scottish epidemiologist and virologist noted for his pioneering research on insect-borne viruses, particularly in Africa.
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E.
Andrew Lesnie
Andrew Lesnie was an Australian cinematographer best known for his Oscar-winning work on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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historian ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | 21st century ⓘ |
| author | Alexander Rose self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Washington's Spies: The Story of America’s First Spy Ring
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surface form:
Washington's Spies
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| fieldOfWork |
American history
ⓘ
intelligence history ⓘ military history ⓘ |
| genre |
historical drama
ⓘ
history ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasWrittenAbout |
American Revolutionary War
ⓘ
George Washington ⓘ espionage ⓘ |
| inspired |
Turn: Washington's Spies
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surface form:
television series Turn: Washington's Spies
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| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | British-American ⓘ |
| notableFor | writing about George Washington’s spy ring ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Turn: Washington's Spies
ⓘ
surface form:
Washington's Spies
Washington's Spies: The Story of America’s First Spy Ring ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
historian ⓘ |
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: Alexander Rose Description of subject: Alexander Rose is a historian and author best known for his book "Washington's Spies," which inspired the television series "Turn: Washington's Spies."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Washington's Spies