Ben Goldwasser
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Ben Goldwasser is an American musician and songwriter best known as the co-founder and keyboardist of the psychedelic pop band MGMT.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ben Goldwasser canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5676314 — 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 Goldwasser Context triple: [MGMT, hasMember, Ben Goldwasser]
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A.
Michael Blumenthal
Michael Blumenthal is a German-born American economist, businessman, and former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury who later served as director of the Jewish Museum Berlin.
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B.
Benjamin Barron
Benjamin Barron was the husband of Elizabeth Parris, who was historically associated with the Salem witch trials.
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C.
Hal Lieberman
Hal Lieberman is an American film producer known for working on major Hollywood movies, including the science fiction action sequel "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines."
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D.
Jonathan Corwin
Jonathan Corwin was a 17th-century Massachusetts magistrate best known as one of the judges who presided over the Salem witch trials.
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E.
Harry Strauss
Harry Strauss was a notorious New York contract killer and prominent member of the Murder, Inc. crime syndicate during the 1930s and early 1940s.
- 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 Goldwasser Target entity description: Ben Goldwasser is an American musician and songwriter best known as the co-founder and keyboardist of the psychedelic pop band MGMT.
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A.
Michael Blumenthal
Michael Blumenthal is a German-born American economist, businessman, and former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury who later served as director of the Jewish Museum Berlin.
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B.
Benjamin Barron
Benjamin Barron was the husband of Elizabeth Parris, who was historically associated with the Salem witch trials.
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C.
Hal Lieberman
Hal Lieberman is an American film producer known for working on major Hollywood movies, including the science fiction action sequel "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines."
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D.
Jonathan Corwin
Jonathan Corwin was a 17th-century Massachusetts magistrate best known as one of the judges who presided over the Salem witch trials.
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E.
Harry Strauss
Harry Strauss was a notorious New York contract killer and prominent member of the Murder, Inc. crime syndicate during the 1930s and early 1940s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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human ⓘ keyboardist ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st century ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Andrew VanWyngarden
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MGMT ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | MGMT ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Wesleyan University ⓘ |
| familyName |
Goldwasser
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linked to:
Shafi Goldwasser
|
| fieldOfWork |
music
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music production ⓘ songwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
indie rock
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psychedelic pop ⓘ psychedelic rock ⓘ synth-pop ⓘ |
| givenName | Ben ⓘ |
| hasRole |
co-founder of MGMT
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keyboardist of MGMT ⓘ songwriter of MGMT ⓘ |
| instrument |
keyboards
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piano ⓘ synthesizer ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | MGMT ⓘ |
| name | Ben Goldwasser ⓘ |
| nationality |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| notableSong |
Electric Feel
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Kids ⓘ Time to Pretend ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Congratulations
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Little Dark Age ⓘ MGMT (album) ⓘ Oracular Spectacular ⓘ |
| occupation |
keyboardist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
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 Goldwasser Description of subject: Ben Goldwasser is an American musician and songwriter best known as the co-founder and keyboardist of the psychedelic pop band MGMT.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.