Benjamin Hammond Haggerty
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Benjamin Hammond Haggerty is an American rapper and songwriter best known by his stage name Macklemore, recognized for hits like "Thrift Shop" and "Can't Hold Us."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Benjamin Hammond Haggerty canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5285440 — 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: Benjamin Hammond Haggerty Context triple: [Macklemore, birthName, Benjamin Hammond Haggerty]
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Charles S. Hamlin
Charles S. Hamlin was an American lawyer and public official who became the first chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, helping to establish the early framework of U.S. central banking policy.
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B.
John Milledge
John Milledge was an American politician and statesman who served as governor of Georgia and a U.S. congressman in the early 19th century.
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C.
James J. Hartnett
James J. Hartnett is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the Hartnett surname.
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D.
John A. Hardenbrook
John A. Hardenbrook was one of the early New York City brokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by signing the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
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E.
Timothy Harris
Timothy Harris is an American screenwriter and producer known for co-writing popular comedies such as "Brewster's Millions," "Trading Places," and "Twins."
- 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 Hammond Haggerty Target entity description: Benjamin Hammond Haggerty is an American rapper and songwriter best known by his stage name Macklemore, recognized for hits like "Thrift Shop" and "Can't Hold Us."
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A.
Charles S. Hamlin
Charles S. Hamlin was an American lawyer and public official who became the first chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, helping to establish the early framework of U.S. central banking policy.
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B.
John Milledge
John Milledge was an American politician and statesman who served as governor of Georgia and a U.S. congressman in the early 19th century.
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C.
James J. Hartnett
James J. Hartnett is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the Hartnett surname.
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D.
John A. Hardenbrook
John A. Hardenbrook was one of the early New York City brokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by signing the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
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E.
Timothy Harris
Timothy Harris is an American screenwriter and producer known for co-writing popular comedies such as "Brewster's Millions," "Trading Places," and "Twins."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
hip hop duo
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human ⓘ rapper ⓘ song ⓘ songwriter ⓘ studio album ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Grammy Award for Best New Artist
NERFINISHED
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Grammy Award for Best Rap Album NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Benjamin Hammond Haggerty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith | Ryan Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1983-06-19 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Nathan Hale High School
NERFINISHED
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The Evergreen State College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuredArtist |
Mary Lambert
NERFINISHED
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Ray Dalton NERFINISHED ⓘ Wanz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
hip hop
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pop rap ⓘ |
| grewUpIn | Seattle, Washington, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Colette Koala Haggerty
NERFINISHED
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Sloane Ava Simone Haggerty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Macklemore
NERFINISHED
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Ryan Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Tricia Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | independent music releases ⓘ |
| memberOf | Macklemore & Ryan Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ben
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Can’t Hold Us NERFINISHED ⓘ Downtown NERFINISHED ⓘ Gemini NERFINISHED ⓘ Glorious NERFINISHED ⓘ Same Love NERFINISHED ⓘ The Heist NERFINISHED ⓘ Thrift Shop NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
rapper
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record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| performer |
Macklemore
NERFINISHED
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Macklemore NERFINISHED ⓘ Macklemore & Ryan Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ Macklemore & Ryan Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ Macklemore & Ryan Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ Macklemore & Ryan Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Seattle, Washington, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate |
2012-10-09
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2017-09-22 ⓘ |
| stageName | Macklemore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Hammond Haggerty Description of subject: Benjamin Hammond Haggerty is an American rapper and songwriter best known by his stage name Macklemore, recognized for hits like "Thrift Shop" and "Can't Hold Us."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.