Brandon Crane
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Brandon Crane is an American actor best known for playing young Ben Hanscom in the 1990 television miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s "It."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Brandon Crane canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8242737 — 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: Brandon Crane Context triple: [It (1990 miniseries), childActor, Brandon Crane]
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A.
Anderson Hunt
Anderson Hunt is a former American college basketball guard best known for starring on UNLV’s early-1990s powerhouse teams, including the 1990 NCAA championship squad where he was named Final Four Most Outstanding Player.
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B.
Rocky Carroll
Rocky Carroll is an American actor best known for his role as Director Leon Vance on the long-running television series NCIS.
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C.
Charlie Ward
Charlie Ward is a former Florida State University quarterback who won the 1993 Heisman Trophy and later played professional basketball in the NBA.
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D.
Homer Drew
Homer Drew is a longtime American college basketball coach best known for leading Valparaiso University to multiple NCAA Tournament appearances and for being the father of fellow coach Scott Drew.
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E.
Al Bennett
Al Bennett was an American music industry executive best known as the founder and longtime leader of the influential record label Liberty Records.
- 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: Brandon Crane Target entity description: Brandon Crane is an American actor best known for playing young Ben Hanscom in the 1990 television miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s "It."
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A.
Anderson Hunt
Anderson Hunt is a former American college basketball guard best known for starring on UNLV’s early-1990s powerhouse teams, including the 1990 NCAA championship squad where he was named Final Four Most Outstanding Player.
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B.
Rocky Carroll
Rocky Carroll is an American actor best known for his role as Director Leon Vance on the long-running television series NCIS.
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C.
Charlie Ward
Charlie Ward is a former Florida State University quarterback who won the 1993 Heisman Trophy and later played professional basketball in the NBA.
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D.
Homer Drew
Homer Drew is a longtime American college basketball coach best known for leading Valparaiso University to multiple NCAA Tournament appearances and for being the father of fellow coach Scott Drew.
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E.
Al Bennett
Al Bennett was an American music industry executive best known as the founder and longtime leader of the influential record label Liberty Records.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| basedOn | It (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| creatorOfCharacterPortrayed | Stephen King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfNotableWork |
horror
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supernatural horror ⓘ |
| hasWorkedWith |
Annette O'Toole
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dennis Christopher NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ John Ritter NERFINISHED ⓘ Olivia Hussey NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ Seth Green NERFINISHED ⓘ Tim Curry NERFINISHED ⓘ Tim Reid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mediumOfPerformance |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| notableWork |
It (1990 miniseries)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
It (1990 television miniseries) NERFINISHED ⓘ Step by Step NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wonder Years NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wonder Years (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| role |
Doug Porter
NERFINISHED
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young Ben Hanscom 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: Brandon Crane Description of subject: Brandon Crane is an American actor best known for playing young Ben Hanscom in the 1990 television miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s "It."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.