Alex Law
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Alex Law is a central character in the darkly comic British thriller "Shallow Grave," known for his cynical wit and descent into paranoia after discovering a dead flatmate and a suitcase of cash.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alex Law canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9137425 — 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 Law Context triple: [Shallow Grave, hasCharacter, Alex Law]
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A.
Andrew Lawson
Andrew Lawson was a pioneering early 20th-century geologist best known for his foundational work on California’s geology and seismic activity, including identifying the San Andreas Fault.
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B.
Brian Laws
Brian Laws is an English former footballer and manager best known for his successful and lengthy spell in charge of Scunthorpe United.
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C.
Sam Lawson
Sam Lawson is a fictional New England storyteller created by Harriet Beecher Stowe, known for his humorous, dialect-rich tales in "Oldtown Fireside Stories."
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D.
Peter Law
Peter Law is a member of the Law family, known primarily as a relative of British model and actor Rafferty Law.
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E.
Chris Lawler
Chris Lawler is a former English footballer best known as a long-serving right-back for Liverpool FC during the 1960s and early 1970s.
- 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 Law Target entity description: Alex Law is a central character in the darkly comic British thriller "Shallow Grave," known for his cynical wit and descent into paranoia after discovering a dead flatmate and a suitcase of cash.
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A.
Andrew Lawson
Andrew Lawson was a pioneering early 20th-century geologist best known for his foundational work on California’s geology and seismic activity, including identifying the San Andreas Fault.
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B.
Brian Laws
Brian Laws is an English former footballer and manager best known for his successful and lengthy spell in charge of Scunthorpe United.
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C.
Sam Lawson
Sam Lawson is a fictional New England storyteller created by Harriet Beecher Stowe, known for his humorous, dialect-rich tales in "Oldtown Fireside Stories."
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D.
Peter Law
Peter Law is a member of the Law family, known primarily as a relative of British model and actor Rafferty Law.
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E.
Chris Lawler
Chris Lawler is a former English footballer best known as a long-serving right-back for Liverpool FC during the 1960s and early 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Shallow Grave ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
friendship under strain
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greed ⓘ moral corruption ⓘ paranoia ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
cynical
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paranoid ⓘ witty ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | John Hodge ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Shallow Grave (1994 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Shallow Grave
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | protagonist ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central character ⓘ |
| occupation | journalist ⓘ |
| plotInvolvement |
discovers dead flatmate
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discovers suitcase of cash ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Ewan McGregor ⓘ |
| settingOfResidence | Edinburgh ⓘ |
| sharesFlatWith |
David
ⓘ
Juliet ⓘ |
| toneOfDialogue |
darkly humorous
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sarcastic ⓘ |
| undergoes | descent into paranoia ⓘ |
| workGenre |
dark comedy
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thriller ⓘ |
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 Law Description of subject: Alex Law is a central character in the darkly comic British thriller "Shallow Grave," known for his cynical wit and descent into paranoia after discovering a dead flatmate and a suitcase of cash.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.