Ben Swanson
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Ben Swanson is a music industry professional best known as a co-founder of the independent record label Dead Oceans, part of the Secretly Group family of labels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ben Swanson canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10104118 — 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 Swanson Context triple: [Dead Oceans, foundedBy, Ben Swanson]
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A.
Matt Swanson
Matt Swanson is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the short-form video creation and sharing platform MixBit.
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B.
Clinton Sundberg
Clinton Sundberg was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood films and stage productions.
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C.
Brett Hedblom
Brett Hedblom is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the Netflix drama series "Maid."
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D.
Pete Olson
Pete Olson is an American Republican politician who represented Texas's 22nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2009 to 2021.
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E.
Kevin Snodgrass
Kevin Snodgrass is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Snodgrass.
- 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 Swanson Target entity description: Ben Swanson is a music industry professional best known as a co-founder of the independent record label Dead Oceans, part of the Secretly Group family of labels.
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A.
Matt Swanson
Matt Swanson is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the short-form video creation and sharing platform MixBit.
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B.
Clinton Sundberg
Clinton Sundberg was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood films and stage productions.
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C.
Brett Hedblom
Brett Hedblom is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the Netflix drama series "Maid."
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D.
Pete Olson
Pete Olson is an American Republican politician who represented Texas's 22nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2009 to 2021.
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E.
Kevin Snodgrass
Kevin Snodgrass is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Snodgrass.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
independent record label
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music industry professional ⓘ record label executive ⓘ record label group ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith |
Dead Oceans
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Secretly Group ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Dead Oceans ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Ben Swanson ⓘ |
| notableFor | co-founding the independent record label Dead Oceans ⓘ |
| occupation |
music industry professional
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record label co-founder ⓘ |
| partOf | Secretly Group ⓘ |
| role | co-founder of Dead Oceans ⓘ |
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 Swanson Description of subject: Ben Swanson is a music industry professional best known as a co-founder of the independent record label Dead Oceans, part of the Secretly Group family of labels.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.