Ira Steven Behr
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Ira Steven Behr is an American television producer and writer best known for his work as showrunner on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and contributions to other genre series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ira Steven Behr canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4496199 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Ira Steven Behr Context triple: [Colm Meaney, hasWorkedWith, Ira Steven Behr]
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A.
Michael Piller
Michael Piller was an American television writer and producer best known for his influential work shaping the modern Star Trek franchise, particularly through his leadership on Star Trek: The Next Generation and subsequent series.
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B.
Brannon Braga
Brannon Braga is an American television producer, director, and writer best known for his work on multiple Star Trek series and other science and science-fiction programs.
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C.
Joel Surnow
Joel Surnow is an American television writer and producer best known as the co-creator of the real-time action-thriller series "24."
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D.
Donald P. Bellisario
Donald P. Bellisario is an American television producer and screenwriter best known for creating and producing popular series such as Magnum, P.I., Quantum Leap, JAG, and NCIS.
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E.
Anthony E. Zuiker
Anthony E. Zuiker is an American television producer and writer best known for originating the CSI franchise, one of the most successful crime drama series in TV history.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ira Steven Behr Target entity description: Ira Steven Behr is an American television producer and writer best known for his work as showrunner on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and contributions to other genre series.
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A.
Michael Piller
Michael Piller was an American television writer and producer best known for his influential work shaping the modern Star Trek franchise, particularly through his leadership on Star Trek: The Next Generation and subsequent series.
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B.
Brannon Braga
Brannon Braga is an American television producer, director, and writer best known for his work on multiple Star Trek series and other science and science-fiction programs.
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C.
Joel Surnow
Joel Surnow is an American television writer and producer best known as the co-creator of the real-time action-thriller series "24."
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D.
Donald P. Bellisario
Donald P. Bellisario is an American television producer and screenwriter best known for creating and producing popular series such as Magnum, P.I., Quantum Leap, JAG, and NCIS.
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E.
Anthony E. Zuiker
Anthony E. Zuiker is an American television producer and writer best known for originating the CSI franchise, one of the most successful crime drama series in TV history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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screenwriter ⓘ showrunner ⓘ television producer ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | documentary What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1953-10-23 ⓘ |
| employer |
CBS Studios
NERFINISHED
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Paramount Television NERFINISHED ⓘ Starz NERFINISHED ⓘ USA Network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish Americans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Behr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
television production
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television writing ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy television
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science fiction television ⓘ |
| givenName | Ira NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
developing serialized storytelling on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
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showrunner of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Ira Steven Behr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to Star Trek franchise
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serialized narrative arcs in genre television ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Alphas
NERFINISHED
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Outlander (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek: Deep Space Nine NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek: The Next Generation NERFINISHED ⓘ The 4400 NERFINISHED ⓘ What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
screenwriter
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showrunner ⓘ television producer ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
executive producer of Alphas
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executive producer of Outlander (TV series) ⓘ executive producer of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ⓘ executive producer of The 4400 ⓘ showrunner of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ⓘ |
| roleInWork | co-director of What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ⓘ |
| spouse | Laura Behr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Alphas
NERFINISHED
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Outlander (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek: Deep Space Nine NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek: The Next Generation NERFINISHED ⓘ The 4400 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: Ira Steven Behr Description of subject: Ira Steven Behr is an American television producer and writer best known for his work as showrunner on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and contributions to other genre series.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.