Alan Surgal
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Alan Surgal was an American screenwriter best known for his work on the 1965 avant-garde crime drama film "Mickey One."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alan Surgal canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11465240 — 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: Alan Surgal Context triple: [Mickey One, screenwriter, Alan Surgal]
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A.
Philip Sabes
Philip Sabes is a neuroscientist and entrepreneur known for his work on brain–computer interfaces and for co-founding the neurotechnology company Neuralink.
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B.
Mark Vicente
Mark Vicente is a cinematographer and filmmaker best known for his work on the documentary "What the Bleep Do We Know!?" and his involvement in the NXIVM organization.
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C.
Adam Sors
Adam Sors is the central protagonist of the historical drama film "Sunshine," whose life and family saga trace the turbulent political and social upheavals of 20th-century Hungary.
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D.
Alan Ereira
Alan Ereira is a British historian, broadcaster, and documentary filmmaker known for his work on medieval history and indigenous cultures.
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E.
Andrew Sarlo
Andrew Sarlo is a music producer known for his work with indie and alternative artists such as Big Thief and Bon Iver.
- 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: Alan Surgal Target entity description: Alan Surgal was an American screenwriter best known for his work on the 1965 avant-garde crime drama film "Mickey One."
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A.
Philip Sabes
Philip Sabes is a neuroscientist and entrepreneur known for his work on brain–computer interfaces and for co-founding the neurotechnology company Neuralink.
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B.
Mark Vicente
Mark Vicente is a cinematographer and filmmaker best known for his work on the documentary "What the Bleep Do We Know!?" and his involvement in the NXIVM organization.
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C.
Adam Sors
Adam Sors is the central protagonist of the historical drama film "Sunshine," whose life and family saga trace the turbulent political and social upheavals of 20th-century Hungary.
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D.
Alan Ereira
Alan Ereira is a British historian, broadcaster, and documentary filmmaker known for his work on medieval history and indigenous cultures.
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E.
Andrew Sarlo
Andrew Sarlo is a music producer known for his work with indie and alternative artists such as Big Thief and Bon Iver.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film producer
ⓘ
human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film industry
ⓘ
television industry ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Arthur Penn
ⓘ
Warren Beatty ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1916-02-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2017-01-03 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Chicago ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| genre |
avant-garde film
ⓘ
crime film ⓘ drama film ⓘ |
| hasChild |
one daughter
ⓘ
two sons ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| notableFor | writing the screenplay for the 1965 film Mickey One ⓘ |
| notableWork | Mickey One ⓘ |
| occupation |
film producer
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chicago ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Joan Surgal ⓘ |
| workedOn | Mickey One ⓘ |
| wrote | screenplay of Mickey One ⓘ |
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: Alan Surgal Description of subject: Alan Surgal was an American screenwriter best known for his work on the 1965 avant-garde crime drama film "Mickey One."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.