Bennie Wilson
E248305
Bennie Wilson is a character in the 1989 Eddie Murphy-directed crime-comedy film "Harlem Nights," set in the 1930s Harlem underworld.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bennie Wilson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2232380 — 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: Bennie Wilson Context triple: [Harlem Nights, featuresCharacter, Bennie Wilson]
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A.
Donald Wilson
Donald Wilson was a British television producer and writer best known for helping develop and launch the long-running science fiction series Doctor Who for the BBC in the early 1960s.
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B.
Archdale Wilson
Archdale Wilson was a British Army officer best known for leading the successful recapture of Delhi during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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C.
Malick Bowens
Malick Bowens was a Kenyan-born actor best known for his supporting role in the Academy Award–winning film "Out of Africa."
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D.
Roy Hinson
Roy Hinson is a former American professional basketball player and standout forward from Rutgers University who played several seasons in the NBA during the 1980s.
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E.
Malcolm Wilson
Malcolm Wilson was an American Republican politician who served as governor of New York in the 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: Bennie Wilson Target entity description: Bennie Wilson is a character in the 1989 Eddie Murphy-directed crime-comedy film "Harlem Nights," set in the 1930s Harlem underworld.
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A.
Donald Wilson
Donald Wilson was a British television producer and writer best known for helping develop and launch the long-running science fiction series Doctor Who for the BBC in the early 1960s.
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B.
Archdale Wilson
Archdale Wilson was a British Army officer best known for leading the successful recapture of Delhi during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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C.
Malick Bowens
Malick Bowens was a Kenyan-born actor best known for his supporting role in the Academy Award–winning film "Out of Africa."
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D.
Roy Hinson
Roy Hinson is a former American professional basketball player and standout forward from Rutgers University who played several seasons in the NBA during the 1980s.
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E.
Malcolm Wilson
Malcolm Wilson was an American Republican politician who served as governor of New York in the early 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Harlem Nights ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Sugar Ray
ⓘ
surface form:
Club Sugar Ray
Quick ⓘ Sugar Ray ⓘ Vera ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Eddie Murphy ⓘ |
| fictionalLocation | Harlem ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Harlem Nights ⓘ |
| filmDirectorOfWork | Eddie Murphy ⓘ |
| filmGenreOfWork | crime comedy ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYearOfWork | 1989 ⓘ |
| filmSettingPlaceOfWork | Harlem ⓘ |
| filmSettingTimeOfWork | 1930s ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Harlem Nights ⓘ |
| genre | crime comedy ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeTimePeriod | 1930s ⓘ |
| occupation | numbers runner ⓘ |
| partOfWork | Harlem Nights cast of characters ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Redd Foxx ⓘ |
| yearOfFirstAppearance | 1989 ⓘ |
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: Bennie Wilson Description of subject: Bennie Wilson is a character in the 1989 Eddie Murphy-directed crime-comedy film "Harlem Nights," set in the 1930s Harlem underworld.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.