Ben Wood
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Ben Wood is a fictional character portrayed by actor James Marsden, known for his role in the romantic drama film "The Best of Me."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ben Wood canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13257558 — 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 Wood Context triple: [James Marsden, characterPortrayed, Ben Wood]
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A.
David Wood
David Wood is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, as well as for his contributions as a playwright and children's author.
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B.
Howard Wood
Howard Wood is an American businessman best known as a co-founder and early leader of the telecommunications and cable company Charter Communications.
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C.
Tony Woodley
Tony Woodley is a British trade union leader best known for heading one of the UK’s largest unions and playing a prominent role in labor and political campaigns.
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D.
Ben Rothwell
Ben Rothwell is an American mixed martial artist and longtime UFC heavyweight veteran known for his knockout power and unorthodox personality.
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E.
Alan Wheatley
Alan Wheatley was a British actor best known for his stage and screen work, including his portrayal of the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1950s television series "The Adventures of Robin Hood."
- 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 Wood Target entity description: Ben Wood is a fictional character portrayed by actor James Marsden, known for his role in the romantic drama film "The Best of Me."
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A.
David Wood
David Wood is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, as well as for his contributions as a playwright and children's author.
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B.
Howard Wood
Howard Wood is an American businessman best known as a co-founder and early leader of the telecommunications and cable company Charter Communications.
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C.
Tony Woodley
Tony Woodley is a British trade union leader best known for heading one of the UK’s largest unions and playing a prominent role in labor and political campaigns.
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D.
Ben Rothwell
Ben Rothwell is an American mixed martial artist and longtime UFC heavyweight veteran known for his knockout power and unorthodox personality.
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E.
Alan Wheatley
Alan Wheatley was a British actor best known for his stage and screen work, including his portrayal of the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1950s television series "The Adventures of Robin Hood."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Best of Me NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Best of Me (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterIn | The Best of Me (2014 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Nicholas Sparks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Best of Me NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followsWork | The Best of Me (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | romantic drama film ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | The Best of Me (2014 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAgeInMainTimeline | adult ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Wood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGenre | romantic drama ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Ben NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOccupationInStory | oil rig worker ⓘ |
| hasRomanticInterest | Amanda Collier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mediumOfAppearance | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeMedium | film ⓘ |
| partOf | The Best of Me film adaptation ⓘ |
| partOfCastOf | The Best of Me (2014 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | James Marsden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedByInAdultTimeline | James Marsden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedByInFilm | James Marsden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDateOfFirstAppearance | 2014 ⓘ |
| setIn | Louisiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Wood Description of subject: Ben Wood is a fictional character portrayed by actor James Marsden, known for his role in the romantic drama film "The Best of Me."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.