Ben Platt
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Ben Platt is an American actor and singer best known for originating the title role in the Broadway musical "Dear Evan Hansen" and for his work in film, television, and pop music.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ben Platt canonical | 53 |
| Ben Platt (film adaptation) | 1 |
| Ben Platt as Evan Hansen | 1 |
| Ben Platt discography | 1 |
| producing Tony Award–winning actor and singer Ben Platt | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2031568 — 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: Ben Platt Context triple: [River (song), hasNotableCoverVersionBy, Ben Platt]
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A.
Jonathan Groff
Jonathan Groff is an American actor and singer known for his work on Broadway, television, and film, including voicing Kristoff in Disney’s Frozen franchise.
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B.
Jacob Latimore
Jacob Latimore is an American actor and R&B singer known for roles in films like "The Maze Runner" and the TV series "The Chi."
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C.
Caleb McLaughlin
Caleb McLaughlin is an American actor best known for playing Lucas Sinclair in the Netflix science-fiction horror series "Stranger Things."
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D.
Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris is an American actor, comedian, and magician best known for his roles in the TV series "How I Met Your Mother" and "Doogie Howser, M.D."
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E.
Mateo Firth
Mateo Firth is a person known primarily as the sibling of Luca Firth.
- 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: Ben Platt Target entity description: Ben Platt is an American actor and singer best known for originating the title role in the Broadway musical "Dear Evan Hansen" and for his work in film, television, and pop music.
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A.
Jonathan Groff
Jonathan Groff is an American actor and singer known for his work on Broadway, television, and film, including voicing Kristoff in Disney’s Frozen franchise.
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B.
Jacob Latimore
Jacob Latimore is an American actor and R&B singer known for roles in films like "The Maze Runner" and the TV series "The Chi."
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C.
Caleb McLaughlin
Caleb McLaughlin is an American actor best known for playing Lucas Sinclair in the Netflix science-fiction horror series "Stranger Things."
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D.
Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris is an American actor, comedian, and magician best known for his roles in the TV series "How I Met Your Mother" and "Doogie Howser, M.D."
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E.
Mateo Firth
Mateo Firth is a person known primarily as the sibling of Luca Firth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
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: Ben Platt Description of subject: Ben Platt is an American actor and singer best known for originating the title role in the Broadway musical "Dear Evan Hansen" and for his work in film, television, and pop music.
Referenced by (57)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
River
linked to: Ben Platt
linked to: Ben Platt
linked to: Ben Platt
subject linked to:
Platt family
subject linked to:
Payton Hobart in The Politician