Jerome Benton
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Jerome Benton is an American musician, actor, and comedian best known for his work with Prince and as a member of the funk band The Time.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jerome Benton canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9425754 — 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: Jerome Benton Context triple: [The Time, associatedWith, Jerome Benton]
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A.
Peter Benton
Peter Benton is a driven and often intense trauma surgeon from the television series "ER," known for his surgical skill and complex personal relationships with colleagues.
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B.
Guy Bensley
Guy Bensley is a film editor best known for his work on the comedy spy film "Johnny English Reborn."
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C.
Henry McMorran
Henry McMorran was a prominent local figure and benefactor in Port Huron, Michigan, whose contributions to the community led to the city’s main event center being named in his honor.
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D.
Lewis Branscomb
Lewis Branscomb was an American physicist and influential science and technology policy leader known for his work at the intersection of research, innovation, and public policy.
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E.
Jerome Webster
Jerome Webster is the protagonist of the 1938 film "City," around whom the story’s central conflicts and developments revolve.
- 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: Jerome Benton Target entity description: Jerome Benton is an American musician, actor, and comedian best known for his work with Prince and as a member of the funk band The Time.
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A.
Peter Benton
Peter Benton is a driven and often intense trauma surgeon from the television series "ER," known for his surgical skill and complex personal relationships with colleagues.
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B.
Guy Bensley
Guy Bensley is a film editor best known for his work on the comedy spy film "Johnny English Reborn."
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C.
Henry McMorran
Henry McMorran was a prominent local figure and benefactor in Port Huron, Michigan, whose contributions to the community led to the city’s main event center being named in his honor.
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D.
Lewis Branscomb
Lewis Branscomb was an American physicist and influential science and technology policy leader known for his work at the intersection of research, innovation, and public policy.
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E.
Jerome Webster
Jerome Webster is the protagonist of the 1938 film "City," around whom the story’s central conflicts and developments revolve.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedian
ⓘ
dancer ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn |
1980s music scene
ⓘ
Minneapolis sound scene ⓘ
linked to:
minneapolis sound
|
| associatedWith |
Morris Day
ⓘ
Prince ⓘ The Revolution ⓘ The Time ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Benton ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
comedy
ⓘ
dance ⓘ film ⓘ music ⓘ |
| genre |
R&B
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funk ⓘ pop ⓘ |
| givenName | Jerome ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
The Original 7ven
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The Time ⓘ |
| name | Jerome Benton ⓘ |
| notableFor |
collaborations in Prince-related film projects
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comic onstage persona with The Time ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Tricky in Under the Cherry Moon
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member of The Time in Purple Rain ⓘ |
| notableWork |
collaborations with Prince
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performances with The Time ⓘ role in the film Graffiti Bridge ⓘ role in the film Purple Rain ⓘ role in the film Under the Cherry Moon ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ dancer ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| partOf |
Minneapolis sound movement
ⓘ
linked to:
minneapolis sound
|
| performerOf |
Cool
ⓘ
Jungle Love ⓘ The Bird ⓘ |
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: Jerome Benton Description of subject: Jerome Benton is an American musician, actor, and comedian best known for his work with Prince and as a member of the funk band The Time.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.