Alex Winter
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Alex Winter is an English-American actor and filmmaker best known for co-starring as Bill in the "Bill & Ted" film series and for directing documentaries such as "Downloaded" and "The Panama Papers."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alex Winter canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8351600 — 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 Winter Context triple: [The Lost Boys, castMember, Alex Winter]
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A.
John Corbett
John Corbett is an American actor and country music singer best known for his roles in "Sex and the City," "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," and various television and film projects.
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B.
Rob Frye
Rob Frye is a multi-instrumentalist and composer known for his work in experimental, jazz, and folk-influenced music projects.
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C.
Seth Green
Seth Green is an American actor, comedian, and producer best known for his voice work on "Family Guy" and for creating and starring in the stop-motion series "Robot Chicken."
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D.
Jeff Pilson
Jeff Pilson is an American bassist and producer best known for his work with the rock bands Dokken and Foreigner.
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E.
Nicholas Grodin
Nicholas Grodin is the son of the late American actor and comedian Charles Grodin.
- 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 Winter Target entity description: Alex Winter is an English-American actor and filmmaker best known for co-starring as Bill in the "Bill & Ted" film series and for directing documentaries such as "Downloaded" and "The Panama Papers."
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A.
John Corbett
John Corbett is an American actor and country music singer best known for his roles in "Sex and the City," "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," and various television and film projects.
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B.
Rob Frye
Rob Frye is a multi-instrumentalist and composer known for his work in experimental, jazz, and folk-influenced music projects.
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C.
Seth Green
Seth Green is an American actor, comedian, and producer best known for his voice work on "Family Guy" and for creating and starring in the stop-motion series "Robot Chicken."
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D.
Jeff Pilson
Jeff Pilson is an American bassist and producer best known for his work with the rock bands Dokken and Foreigner.
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E.
Nicholas Grodin
Nicholas Grodin is the son of the late American actor and comedian Charles Grodin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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film director ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Bill & Ted Face the Music
NERFINISHED
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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey NERFINISHED ⓘ Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure NERFINISHED ⓘ Death Wish 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lost Boys NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Alexander Ross Winter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed | Bill S. Preston, Esq. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coDirected | Freaked NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coStarredWith | Keanu Reeves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1965-07-17 ⓘ |
| directed |
Downloaded
NERFINISHED
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Freaked NERFINISHED ⓘ Showbiz Kids NERFINISHED ⓘ The Panama Papers NERFINISHED ⓘ Zappa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | New York University Tisch School of the Arts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Jewish ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
documentary film ⓘ |
| hasChild | one son ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Bill & Ted film series
NERFINISHED
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Downloaded NERFINISHED ⓘ Showbiz Kids NERFINISHED ⓘ The Panama Papers NERFINISHED ⓘ Zappa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Alex Winter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | English-American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bill & Ted Face the Music
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey NERFINISHED ⓘ Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure NERFINISHED ⓘ Downloaded NERFINISHED ⓘ Showbiz Kids NERFINISHED ⓘ The Panama Papers NERFINISHED ⓘ Zappa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film director ⓘ producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | London, England, United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Ramona Winter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1978–present ⓘ |
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 Winter Description of subject: Alex Winter is an English-American actor and filmmaker best known for co-starring as Bill in the "Bill & Ted" film series and for directing documentaries such as "Downloaded" and "The Panama Papers."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure