Ben Sobel
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Ben Sobel is a neurotic psychiatrist who becomes entangled with a mob boss as his reluctant therapist in the comedy film "Analyze This."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ben Sobel canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3760229 — 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 Sobel Context triple: [Analyze This, mainCharacter, Ben Sobel]
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A.
Laurence Rosenthal
Laurence Rosenthal is an American composer best known for his film and television scores, including acclaimed work in mid-20th-century cinema and series such as "Becket" and "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles."
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B.
Philip Brenner
Philip Brenner is a scholar and author known for his work on U.S. foreign policy and Latin American studies, often collaborating with historian James G. Blight.
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C.
Seymour Boorstein
Seymour Boorstein was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst known for integrating psychoanalytic theory with spirituality and transpersonal psychology.
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D.
Michael Saltzman
Michael Saltzman is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the 2006 reboot of "The Pink Panther" starring Steve Martin.
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E.
Evan Susser
Evan Susser is an American comedy writer and screenwriter known for his work on films and television, including co-writing the movie "Fist Fight."
- 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 Sobel Target entity description: Ben Sobel is a neurotic psychiatrist who becomes entangled with a mob boss as his reluctant therapist in the comedy film "Analyze This."
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A.
Laurence Rosenthal
Laurence Rosenthal is an American composer best known for his film and television scores, including acclaimed work in mid-20th-century cinema and series such as "Becket" and "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles."
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B.
Philip Brenner
Philip Brenner is a scholar and author known for his work on U.S. foreign policy and Latin American studies, often collaborating with historian James G. Blight.
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C.
Seymour Boorstein
Seymour Boorstein was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst known for integrating psychoanalytic theory with spirituality and transpersonal psychology.
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D.
Michael Saltzman
Michael Saltzman is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the 2006 reboot of "The Pink Panther" starring Steve Martin.
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E.
Evan Susser
Evan Susser is an American comedy writer and screenwriter known for his work on films and television, including co-writing the movie "Fist Fight."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
psychiatrist ⓘ |
| alsoAppearsIn | Analyze That ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Analyze This ⓘ |
| appearsInFilmReleasedIn | 1999 ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Paul Vitti ⓘ |
| characterArcInvolves |
balancing family life with dangerous patients
ⓘ
treating a mob boss for anxiety and panic attacks ⓘ |
| characterIn | Analyze This ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Harold Ramis
ⓘ
Kenneth Lonergan ⓘ Peter Tolan ⓘ |
| entangledWith |
mob boss
ⓘ
organized crime ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | comedy film ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Jelly’s godson (Ben’s son)
ⓘ
Michael Sobel ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Laura MacNamara Sobel ⓘ |
| hasTrait | neurotic ⓘ |
| knownFor | providing therapy to mafia boss Paul Vitti ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | comic foil to mob characters ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| nationality | American (fictional) ⓘ |
| occupation | psychiatrist ⓘ |
| partOf |
Analyze This franchise
ⓘ
linked to:
Analyze This film series
|
| portrayedBy | Billy Crystal ⓘ |
| professionallySpecializesIn | psychotherapy ⓘ |
| reluctantTherapistOf | Paul Vitti ⓘ |
| residesIn | New York ⓘ |
| worksAsTherapistFor | Paul Vitti ⓘ |
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 Sobel Description of subject: Ben Sobel is a neurotic psychiatrist who becomes entangled with a mob boss as his reluctant therapist in the comedy film "Analyze This."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.