Benjamin Scott Folds
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Benjamin Scott Folds is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, and composer best known as the frontman of the alternative rock band Ben Folds Five and for his eclectic solo career.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Benjamin Scott Folds canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9832211 — 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 Scott Folds Context triple: [Ben Folds, birthName, Benjamin Scott Folds]
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A.
William Fagan
William Fagan is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably recorded as a bearer of the surname Fagan.
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B.
Benjamin Griffith
Benjamin Griffith was an early settler and landowner whose contributions to the area led to the Indiana town of Griffith being named in his honor.
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C.
John Fagan
John Fagan is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Fagan.
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D.
Benjamin Salisbury
Benjamin Salisbury is an American actor best known for playing Brighton Sheffield, the middle child, on the 1990s sitcom "The Nanny."
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E.
Douglas Fowley
Douglas Fowley was an American character actor best known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1930s through the 1970s, including a memorable role as the harried film director in "Singin' in the Rain."
- 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 Scott Folds Target entity description: Benjamin Scott Folds is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, and composer best known as the frontman of the alternative rock band Ben Folds Five and for his eclectic solo career.
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A.
William Fagan
William Fagan is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably recorded as a bearer of the surname Fagan.
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B.
Benjamin Griffith
Benjamin Griffith was an early settler and landowner whose contributions to the area led to the Indiana town of Griffith being named in his honor.
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C.
John Fagan
John Fagan is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Fagan.
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D.
Benjamin Salisbury
Benjamin Salisbury is an American actor best known for playing Brighton Sheffield, the middle child, on the 1990s sitcom "The Nanny."
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E.
Douglas Fowley
Douglas Fowley was an American character actor best known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1930s through the 1970s, including a memorable role as the harried film director in "Singin' in the Rain."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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human ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1966-09-12 ⓘ |
| familyName | Folds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
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indie rock ⓘ piano rock ⓘ power pop ⓘ |
| givenName | Benjamin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCollaboratedWith |
Nick Hornby
NERFINISHED
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Regina Spektor NERFINISHED ⓘ William Shatner NERFINISHED ⓘ yMusic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
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drums ⓘ piano ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| knownFor |
eclectic solo career
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frontman of alternative rock band Ben Folds Five ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Ben Folds Five NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Benjamin Scott Folds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Army
NERFINISHED
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Ben Folds Five NERFINISHED ⓘ Ben Folds Five (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Brick NERFINISHED ⓘ Landed NERFINISHED ⓘ Lonely Avenue NERFINISHED ⓘ Rockin’ the Suburbs NERFINISHED ⓘ Rockin’ the Suburbs (song) NERFINISHED ⓘ So There NERFINISHED ⓘ Songs for Silverman NERFINISHED ⓘ The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner NERFINISHED ⓘ Way to Normal NERFINISHED ⓘ What Matters Most NERFINISHED ⓘ Whatever and Ever Amen NERFINISHED ⓘ You Don’t Know Me NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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pianist ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | frontman of Ben Folds Five ⓘ |
| residence | Nashville, Tennessee, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stageName | Ben Folds 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 Scott Folds Description of subject: Benjamin Scott Folds is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, and composer best known as the frontman of the alternative rock band Ben Folds Five and for his eclectic solo career.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.