Benjamin Maisani
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Benjamin Maisani is a French-born nightclub owner and businessman best known as the longtime partner of American journalist Anderson Cooper.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Benjamin Maisani canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1315959 — 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 Maisani Context triple: [Anderson Cooper, spouse, Benjamin Maisani]
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A.
Chris Lebenzon
Chris Lebenzon is an American film editor known for his long-time collaborations with directors like Tim Burton and Tony Scott on major Hollywood films.
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B.
Sam Zussman
Sam Zussman is a sports and media executive who serves as a top business leader for the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets organization.
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C.
Andrew Miano
Andrew Miano is an American film producer known for his work on independent and critically acclaimed movies, often collaborating with director Tom Ford and others.
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D.
Jonathan Teplitzky
Jonathan Teplitzky is an Australian film director known for character-driven dramas such as "The Railway Man" and "Burning Man."
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E.
Gregori Warchavchik
Gregori Warchavchik was a pioneering modernist architect in Brazil, known for introducing and promoting modern architecture in the country during the early 20th century.
- 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 Maisani Target entity description: Benjamin Maisani is a French-born nightclub owner and businessman best known as the longtime partner of American journalist Anderson Cooper.
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A.
Chris Lebenzon
Chris Lebenzon is an American film editor known for his long-time collaborations with directors like Tim Burton and Tony Scott on major Hollywood films.
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B.
Sam Zussman
Sam Zussman is a sports and media executive who serves as a top business leader for the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets organization.
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C.
Andrew Miano
Andrew Miano is an American film producer known for his work on independent and critically acclaimed movies, often collaborating with director Tom Ford and others.
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D.
Jonathan Teplitzky
Jonathan Teplitzky is an Australian film director known for character-driven dramas such as "The Railway Man" and "Burning Man."
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E.
Gregori Warchavchik
Gregori Warchavchik was a pioneering modernist architect in Brazil, known for introducing and promoting modern architecture in the country during the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
ⓘ
human ⓘ nightclub owner ⓘ |
| businessLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| citizenshipStatus | French-born resident of the United States ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| employer |
Atlas Social Club
ⓘ
Easternbloc bar ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasPartner | Anderson Cooper ⓘ |
| industry | nightlife industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | owning gay bars in New York City ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| living | true ⓘ |
| notableFor | relationship with Anderson Cooper ⓘ |
| notableWork |
co-founding Atlas Social Club in Manhattan
ⓘ
owning Easternbloc bar in Manhattan ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
ⓘ
nightclub owner ⓘ |
| partner | Anderson Cooper ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | France ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| sharesChildrenWith | Anderson Cooper ⓘ |
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 Maisani Description of subject: Benjamin Maisani is a French-born nightclub owner and businessman best known as the longtime partner of American journalist Anderson Cooper.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.