Ian Alexander Sr.
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Ian Alexander Sr. is a Canadian record producer and former husband of actress and director Regina King.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ian Alexander Sr. canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5823133 — 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: Ian Alexander Sr. Context triple: [Ian Alexander Jr., father, Ian Alexander Sr.]
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A.
Ian Alexander Jr.
Ian Alexander Jr. was the only son of actress and director Regina King, known publicly through his appearances with her at industry events before his untimely death in 2022.
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B.
Ivan Dixon
Ivan Dixon was an American actor, director, and producer best known for his role as Sergeant James "Kinch" Kinchloe on the television series "Hogan's Heroes."
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C.
Thomas Bladen Alexander
Thomas Bladen Alexander was a 19th-century American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Missouri.
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D.
Robert Livermore
Robert Livermore was a 19th-century Californian rancher and early settler whose name was later given to the city of Livermore, California.
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E.
Oscar Diggs
Oscar Diggs is a small-time circus magician and con artist who is swept away to the Land of Oz, where he becomes the legendary Wizard in the film "Oz the Great and Powerful."
- 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: Ian Alexander Sr. Target entity description: Ian Alexander Sr. is a Canadian record producer and former husband of actress and director Regina King.
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A.
Ian Alexander Jr.
Ian Alexander Jr. was the only son of actress and director Regina King, known publicly through his appearances with her at industry events before his untimely death in 2022.
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B.
Ivan Dixon
Ivan Dixon was an American actor, director, and producer best known for his role as Sergeant James "Kinch" Kinchloe on the television series "Hogan's Heroes."
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C.
Thomas Bladen Alexander
Thomas Bladen Alexander was a 19th-century American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Missouri.
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D.
Robert Livermore
Robert Livermore was a 19th-century Californian rancher and early settler whose name was later given to the city of Livermore, California.
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E.
Oscar Diggs
Oscar Diggs is a small-time circus magician and con artist who is swept away to the Land of Oz, where he becomes the legendary Wizard in the film "Oz the Great and Powerful."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Black Canadian ⓘ |
| hasChild | Ian Alexander Jr. ⓘ |
| industry | music industry ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | marriage to Regina King ⓘ |
| notableWork | music production ⓘ |
| occupation | record producer ⓘ |
| partnerOf | Regina King ⓘ |
| residence |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Regina King ⓘ |
| spouseEndTime | 2007 ⓘ |
| spouseStartTime | 1997 ⓘ |
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: Ian Alexander Sr. Description of subject: Ian Alexander Sr. is a Canadian record producer and former husband of actress and director Regina King.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.