Ben Foster
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Ben Foster is an American actor known for his intense, often gritty performances in films such as "3:10 to Yuma," "Hell or High Water," and "The Messenger."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ben Foster canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T984950 — 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: Ben Foster Context triple: [Alpha Dog, hasCastMember, Ben Foster]
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A.
Robert Pitt
Robert Pitt was an English merchant and politician of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, best known for his wealth from Indian trade and as the patriarch of the influential Pitt family.
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B.
Jason Clarke
Jason Clarke is an Australian actor known for his intense performances in films such as "Zero Dark Thirty," "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes," and "Chappaquiddick."
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C.
Luke Goss
Luke Goss is an English actor and former drummer best known for his roles in genre films such as "Blade II" and "Hellboy II: The Golden Army."
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D.
Josh Brolin
Josh Brolin is an American actor known for his versatile performances in films such as "No Country for Old Men," "W." and for portraying Thanos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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E.
Jonathan Tucker
Jonathan Tucker is an American actor known for his intense, character-driven roles in film and television, including prominent performances in series like "Kingdom," "Westworld," and "City on a Hill."
- 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: Ben Foster Target entity description: Ben Foster is an American actor known for his intense, often gritty performances in films such as "3:10 to Yuma," "Hell or High Water," and "The Messenger."
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A.
Robert Pitt
Robert Pitt was an English merchant and politician of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, best known for his wealth from Indian trade and as the patriarch of the influential Pitt family.
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B.
Jason Clarke
Jason Clarke is an Australian actor known for his intense performances in films such as "Zero Dark Thirty," "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes," and "Chappaquiddick."
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C.
Luke Goss
Luke Goss is an English actor and former drummer best known for his roles in genre films such as "Blade II" and "Hellboy II: The Golden Army."
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D.
Josh Brolin
Josh Brolin is an American actor known for his versatile performances in films such as "No Country for Old Men," "W." and for portraying Thanos in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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E.
Jonathan Tucker
Jonathan Tucker is an American actor known for his intense, character-driven roles in film and television, including prominent performances in series like "Kingdom," "Westworld," and "City on a Hill."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Ben Foster Description of subject: Ben Foster is an American actor known for his intense, often gritty performances in films such as "3:10 to Yuma," "Hell or High Water," and "The Messenger."
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
3:10 to Yuma (2007 film)