Ben Hood
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Ben Hood is the emotionally distant, adulterous suburban father at the center of the 1970s-set drama "The Ice Storm," whose personal and familial crises unfold during a Thanksgiving weekend.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ben Hood canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4106152 — 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 Hood Context triple: [The Ice Storm, mainCharacter, Ben Hood]
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A.
Ben Bilburn
Ben Bilburn is a music producer known for his work on Chance the Rapper’s debut studio album "The Big Day."
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B.
Bo Henderson
Bo Henderson is an American R&B and soul singer best known for his tenure as a lead vocalist with the legendary Motown group The Temptations in the 1990s.
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C.
Sinclair Hood
Sinclair Hood was a British archaeologist renowned for his pioneering excavations and scholarship on Minoan Crete and Aegean prehistory.
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D.
Alan Hume
Alan Hume was a British cinematographer known for his work on several James Bond films and other major features such as "Return of the Jedi."
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E.
Henry Bromell
Henry Bromell was an American writer, producer, and director best known for his work on acclaimed television dramas such as "Homeland" and "Homicide: Life on the Street."
- 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 Hood Target entity description: Ben Hood is the emotionally distant, adulterous suburban father at the center of the 1970s-set drama "The Ice Storm," whose personal and familial crises unfold during a Thanksgiving weekend.
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A.
Ben Bilburn
Ben Bilburn is a music producer known for his work on Chance the Rapper’s debut studio album "The Big Day."
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B.
Bo Henderson
Bo Henderson is an American R&B and soul singer best known for his tenure as a lead vocalist with the legendary Motown group The Temptations in the 1990s.
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C.
Sinclair Hood
Sinclair Hood was a British archaeologist renowned for his pioneering excavations and scholarship on Minoan Crete and Aegean prehistory.
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D.
Alan Hume
Alan Hume was a British cinematographer known for his work on several James Bond films and other major features such as "Return of the Jedi."
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E.
Henry Bromell
Henry Bromell was an American writer, producer, and director best known for his work on acclaimed television dramas such as "Homeland" and "Homicide: Life on the Street."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| adaptedForScreenBy | Ang Lee ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Ice Storm
ⓘ
The Ice Storm (film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Ice Storm
|
| appearsInGenre | drama film ⓘ |
| basedOn | character from The Ice Storm (novel) ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
emotional alienation
ⓘ
family dysfunction ⓘ marital infidelity ⓘ |
| child |
Paul Hood
ⓘ
Wendy Hood ⓘ |
| createdBy | Rick Moody ⓘ |
| experiences | midlife crisis ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAffairWith | Janey Carver ⓘ |
| livesIn | suburban Connecticut ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
father
ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ suburban husband ⓘ |
| nationalityInStory | American ⓘ |
| occupation | businessman ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Kevin Kline ⓘ |
| spouse | Elena Hood ⓘ |
| storySettingEvent | Thanksgiving weekend ⓘ |
| storySettingTime | 1970s ⓘ |
| trait |
adulterous
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emotionally distant ⓘ |
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 Hood Description of subject: Ben Hood is the emotionally distant, adulterous suburban father at the center of the 1970s-set drama "The Ice Storm," whose personal and familial crises unfold during a Thanksgiving weekend.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.