Alexander Sebastian
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Alexander Sebastian is a fictional villainous character best known as the manipulative antagonist in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film "Notorious."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alexander Sebastian canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3971170 — 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 Sebastian Context triple: [Notorious, antagonistCharacter, Alexander Sebastian]
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A.
Alexander Gann
Alexander Gann is a molecular biologist and science editor known for his work on genetics and for co-authoring influential textbooks in molecular biology.
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B.
Alexander Dane
Alexander Dane is a classically trained, somewhat embittered British actor character from the sci-fi comedy film "Galaxy Quest," known for his alien role and catchphrase that he grows to embrace.
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C.
Alexander May
Alexander May is a football executive known for serving as chairman of English club Notts County F.C.
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D.
Alexander Parris
Alexander Parris was a prominent 19th-century American architect and engineer best known for his austere Greek Revival and early granite public buildings in New England.
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E.
Sebastian Blunt
Sebastian Blunt is a British actor and the brother of acclaimed actress Emily Blunt.
- 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 Sebastian Target entity description: Alexander Sebastian is a fictional villainous character best known as the manipulative antagonist in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film "Notorious."
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A.
Alexander Gann
Alexander Gann is a molecular biologist and science editor known for his work on genetics and for co-authoring influential textbooks in molecular biology.
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B.
Alexander Dane
Alexander Dane is a classically trained, somewhat embittered British actor character from the sci-fi comedy film "Galaxy Quest," known for his alien role and catchphrase that he grows to embrace.
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C.
Alexander May
Alexander May is a football executive known for serving as chairman of English club Notts County F.C.
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D.
Alexander Parris
Alexander Parris was a prominent 19th-century American architect and engineer best known for his austere Greek Revival and early granite public buildings in New England.
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E.
Sebastian Blunt
Sebastian Blunt is a British actor and the brother of acclaimed actress Emily Blunt.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ villain ⓘ |
| affiliation | Nazi organization ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Notorious (film)
ⓘ
surface form:
Notorious
|
| associatedWith |
Alicia Huberman
ⓘ
T. R. Devlin ⓘ |
| characterIn | Notorious ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
controlling
ⓘ
jealous ⓘ manipulative ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Alfred Hitchcock
ⓘ
Ben Hecht ⓘ |
| directorOfWork | Alfred Hitchcock ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1946 ⓘ |
| filmStudio | RKO Radio Pictures ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Notorious (1946 film) ⓘ |
| genre | spy film character ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatusInStory | married to Alicia Huberman ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | antagonist ⓘ |
| notableWork | Notorious ⓘ |
| occupation | industrialist ⓘ |
| partOf | classic Hollywood cinema ⓘ |
| plotFunction | obstacle to protagonists ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Claude Rains ⓘ |
| screenwriterOfWork | Ben Hecht ⓘ |
| settingOfFiction | Rio de Janeiro ⓘ |
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 Sebastian Description of subject: Alexander Sebastian is a fictional villainous character best known as the manipulative antagonist in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film "Notorious."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
T. R. Devlin