Alex Garland
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Alex Garland is a British novelist, screenwriter, and filmmaker known for works like "The Beach," "Ex Machina," and "Annihilation," often exploring psychological and science fiction themes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alex Garland canonical | 51 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T617133 — 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 Garland Context triple: [Cailee Spaeny, notableCollaboration, Alex Garland]
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A.
Danny Boyle
Danny Boyle is an acclaimed British film director and producer known for movies such as "Trainspotting," "Slumdog Millionaire," and "28 Days Later."
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B.
Jonathan Nolan
Jonathan Nolan is a British-American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for co-creating the TV series "Westworld" and writing screenplays for films such as "The Dark Knight" and "Interstellar."
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C.
Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan is a British-American filmmaker renowned for his intellectually ambitious, visually striking blockbusters such as Inception, The Dark Knight trilogy, and Interstellar.
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D.
Michael Cuesta
Michael Cuesta is an American film and television director and producer known for his work on series such as Homeland, Dexter, and Six Feet Under.
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E.
Fran Walsh
Fran Walsh is a New Zealand screenwriter and film producer best known for her long-time creative partnership with Peter Jackson on films such as The Lord of the Rings trilogy, for which she won multiple Academy Awards.
- 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 Garland Target entity description: Alex Garland is a British novelist, screenwriter, and filmmaker known for works like "The Beach," "Ex Machina," and "Annihilation," often exploring psychological and science fiction themes.
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A.
Danny Boyle
Danny Boyle is an acclaimed British film director and producer known for movies such as "Trainspotting," "Slumdog Millionaire," and "28 Days Later."
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B.
Jonathan Nolan
Jonathan Nolan is a British-American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for co-creating the TV series "Westworld" and writing screenplays for films such as "The Dark Knight" and "Interstellar."
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C.
Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan is a British-American filmmaker renowned for his intellectually ambitious, visually striking blockbusters such as Inception, The Dark Knight trilogy, and Interstellar.
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D.
Michael Cuesta
Michael Cuesta is an American film and television director and producer known for his work on series such as Homeland, Dexter, and Six Feet Under.
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E.
Fran Walsh
Fran Walsh is a New Zealand screenwriter and film producer best known for her long-time creative partnership with Peter Jackson on films such as The Lord of the Rings trilogy, for which she won multiple Academy Awards.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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human ⓘ novelist ⓘ producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| basedOnHisNovel |
The Beach
ⓘ
surface form:
The Beach (film adaptation)
The Tesseract ⓘ
surface form:
The Tesseract (film adaptation)
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| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| directed |
Annihilation
ⓘ
Civil War ⓘ Devs ⓘ Ex Machina ⓘ Men ⓘ |
| familyName | Garland ⓘ |
| genre |
psychological fiction
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science fiction ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| givenName | Alex ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Alex Garland self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
exploring artificial intelligence themes
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exploring psychological themes ⓘ exploring science fiction themes ⓘ |
| notableWork |
28 Days Later
ⓘ
Annihilation ⓘ Civil War ⓘ Devs ⓘ Dredd (2012 film) ⓘ
surface form:
Dredd
Ex Machina ⓘ Men ⓘ Never Let Me Go (screenplay) ⓘ Sunshine ⓘ The Beach ⓘ The Coma ⓘ The Tesseract ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| wrote |
The Beach
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The Coma ⓘ The Tesseract ⓘ |
| wroteScreenplayFor |
28 Days Later
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Annihilation ⓘ Dredd (2012 film) ⓘ
surface form:
Dredd
Ex Machina ⓘ Men ⓘ Never Let Me Go (screenplay) ⓘ
surface form:
Never Let Me Go (film)
Sunshine ⓘ |
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 Garland Description of subject: Alex Garland is a British novelist, screenwriter, and filmmaker known for works like "The Beach," "Ex Machina," and "Annihilation," often exploring psychological and science fiction themes.
Referenced by (51)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
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