Benno Levin
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Benno Levin is a mysterious, mentally unstable stalker and would-be assassin who obsessively pursues billionaire asset manager Eric Packer in Don DeLillo’s novel "Cosmopolis."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Benno Levin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3282072 — 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: Benno Levin Context triple: [Cosmopolis, notableCharacter, Benno Levin]
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A.
Tzvika Brot
Tzvika Brot is an Israeli politician who serves as the mayor of the coastal city of Bat Yam.
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B.
Adolf Berman
Adolf Berman was a Polish Jewish activist, Holocaust survivor, and politician known for his role in the Jewish resistance and postwar advocacy for survivors’ rights.
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C.
Yehuda Hoffman
Yehuda Hoffman is an astrophysicist known for his work in cosmology and large-scale structure, including helping identify and characterize the Laniakea Supercluster.
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D.
Hillel Steiner
Hillel Steiner is a political philosopher known for his work on rights, justice, and libertarianism within the analytic tradition.
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E.
Edmund Meisel
Edmund Meisel was a German composer best known for his pioneering, politically charged film scores for silent cinema, particularly his work on Soviet montage films.
- 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: Benno Levin Target entity description: Benno Levin is a mysterious, mentally unstable stalker and would-be assassin who obsessively pursues billionaire asset manager Eric Packer in Don DeLillo’s novel "Cosmopolis."
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A.
Tzvika Brot
Tzvika Brot is an Israeli politician who serves as the mayor of the coastal city of Bat Yam.
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B.
Adolf Berman
Adolf Berman was a Polish Jewish activist, Holocaust survivor, and politician known for his role in the Jewish resistance and postwar advocacy for survivors’ rights.
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C.
Yehuda Hoffman
Yehuda Hoffman is an astrophysicist known for his work in cosmology and large-scale structure, including helping identify and characterize the Laniakea Supercluster.
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D.
Hillel Steiner
Hillel Steiner is a political philosopher known for his work on rights, justice, and libertarianism within the analytic tradition.
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E.
Edmund Meisel
Edmund Meisel was a German composer best known for his pioneering, politically charged film scores for silent cinema, particularly his work on Soviet montage films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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mentally unstable person ⓘ stalker ⓘ would-be assassin ⓘ |
| antagonistOf | Eric Packer ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Cosmopolis ⓘ |
| appearsInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | novel ⓘ |
| characterRole | primary antagonist ⓘ |
| createdBy | Don DeLillo ⓘ |
| firstPublicationOfWork | 2003 ⓘ |
| formerEmployer | Eric Packer ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | postmodern fiction ⓘ |
| hasAlias | Richard Sheets ⓘ |
| mediumAdaptation |
Cosmopolis (2012 film)
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linked to:
Cosmopolis (score)
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| mentalState |
delusional
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paranoid ⓘ |
| motivation |
hatred of Eric Packer
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resentment over perceived injustices ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | embodiment of resistance to Eric Packer ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAction |
attempts to assassinate Eric Packer
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stalks Eric Packer ⓘ |
| occupation | former employee ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cosmopolis (novel)
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linked to:
Cosmopolis
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| portrayedInFilmBy | Paul Giamatti ⓘ |
| pursues | Eric Packer ⓘ |
| relationshipToEricPacker |
enemy
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former subordinate ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | New York City ⓘ |
| usesAlias | Richard Sheets ⓘ |
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: Benno Levin Description of subject: Benno Levin is a mysterious, mentally unstable stalker and would-be assassin who obsessively pursues billionaire asset manager Eric Packer in Don DeLillo’s novel "Cosmopolis."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.