Benjamin Hurwood
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Benjamin Hurwood is a sinister 18th-century English physician-turned-necromancer in Tim Powers’ fantasy novel "On Stranger Tides," obsessed with harnessing dark magic and the power of the Fountain of Youth.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Benjamin Hurwood canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12768111 — 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)
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Target entity: Benjamin Hurwood Context triple: [On Stranger Tides, notableCharacter, Benjamin Hurwood]
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A.
Benjamin Griffith
Benjamin Griffith was an early settler and landowner whose contributions to the area led to the Indiana town of Griffith being named in his honor.
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B.
Frank Worthington
Frank Worthington was an English professional footballer best known as a flamboyant forward who played for clubs such as Leicester City and Bolton Wanderers during the 1970s and 1980s.
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C.
Benjamin Gould
Benjamin Gould was a 19th-century American astronomer known for his pioneering work in stellar cataloging and mapping the southern sky.
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D.
Ogden Morrow
Ogden Morrow is a key supporting character in Ernest Cline's novel "Ready Player One," known as the reclusive co-creator of the virtual reality world OASIS.
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E.
Charles Stillman
Charles Stillman was an American labor leader and educator best known for helping to establish the American Federation of Teachers as a national teachers’ union.
- 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: Benjamin Hurwood Target entity description: Benjamin Hurwood is a sinister 18th-century English physician-turned-necromancer in Tim Powers’ fantasy novel "On Stranger Tides," obsessed with harnessing dark magic and the power of the Fountain of Youth.
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A.
Benjamin Griffith
Benjamin Griffith was an early settler and landowner whose contributions to the area led to the Indiana town of Griffith being named in his honor.
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B.
Frank Worthington
Frank Worthington was an English professional footballer best known as a flamboyant forward who played for clubs such as Leicester City and Bolton Wanderers during the 1970s and 1980s.
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C.
Benjamin Gould
Benjamin Gould was a 19th-century American astronomer known for his pioneering work in stellar cataloging and mapping the southern sky.
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D.
Ogden Morrow
Ogden Morrow is a key supporting character in Ernest Cline's novel "Ready Player One," known as the reclusive co-creator of the virtual reality world OASIS.
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E.
Charles Stillman
Charles Stillman was an American labor leader and educator best known for helping to establish the American Federation of Teachers as a national teachers’ union.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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necromancer ⓘ physician ⓘ villain ⓘ |
| alignment | sinister ⓘ |
| appearsIn | On Stranger Tides ⓘ |
| centuryActive | 18th century ⓘ |
| characterRole | antagonist ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalOrigin | England ⓘ |
| creator | Tim Powers ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
On Stranger Tides universe
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linked to:
On Stranger Tides
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| genre |
historical fantasy
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pirate fantasy ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | fantasy literature ⓘ |
| goal |
gain immortality
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harness the power of the Fountain of Youth ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
obsession with the Fountain of Youth
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pursuit of dark magic ⓘ |
| occupation |
necromancer
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physician ⓘ |
| usesMagicType | necromancy ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 1987 ⓘ |
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: Benjamin Hurwood Description of subject: Benjamin Hurwood is a sinister 18th-century English physician-turned-necromancer in Tim Powers’ fantasy novel "On Stranger Tides," obsessed with harnessing dark magic and the power of the Fountain of Youth.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.