Bean
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Bean is a common English surname of Old English origin, associated with various notable individuals including the actor Sean Bean.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bean canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2330195 — 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: Bean Context triple: [Sean Bean, familyName, Bean]
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A.
Bean
Bean is a 1997 British-American comedy film based on Rowan Atkinson’s Mr. Bean character, following his chaotic misadventures in the United States.
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B.
Bean
Bean is the famous jazz saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, a pioneering tenor sax player whose rich tone and improvisational style helped define early jazz.
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C.
The Bean
The Bean is a famous stainless steel public sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor located in Chicago’s Millennium Park, renowned for its highly polished, reflective surface and iconic, bean-like shape.
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D.
BEA
BEA is a U.S. government agency that produces key economic statistics, including measures of national income, output, and growth.
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E.
Jakarta Enterprise Beans
Jakarta Enterprise Beans is a Jakarta EE server-side component architecture that simplifies the development of transactional, secure, and scalable business logic in Java enterprise applications.
- 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: Bean Target entity description: Bean is a common English surname of Old English origin, associated with various notable individuals including the actor Sean Bean.
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A.
Bean
Bean is a 1997 British-American comedy film based on Rowan Atkinson’s Mr. Bean character, following his chaotic misadventures in the United States.
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B.
Bean
Bean is the famous jazz saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, a pioneering tenor sax player whose rich tone and improvisational style helped define early jazz.
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C.
The Bean
The Bean is a famous stainless steel public sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor located in Chicago’s Millennium Park, renowned for its highly polished, reflective surface and iconic, bean-like shape.
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D.
BEA
BEA is a U.S. government agency that produces key economic statistics, including measures of national income, output, and growth.
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E.
Jakarta Enterprise Beans
Jakarta Enterprise Beans is a Jakarta EE server-side component architecture that simplifies the development of transactional, secure, and scalable business logic in Java enterprise applications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| birthName | Shaun Mark Bean ⓘ |
| category |
English-language surnames
ⓘ
surnames from nicknames ⓘ surnames of English origin ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth |
1932-03-15
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1959-04-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2018-05-26 ⓘ |
| familyName |
Bean
self-linksurface differs
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Bean self-linksurface differs ⓘ Bean self-linksurface differs ⓘ Bean self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| givenName | Shaun ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Alan L. Bean
ⓘ
surface form:
Alan Bean
Orson Bean ⓘ Roy Bean ⓘ Sean Bean ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Bain
ⓘ
Bainbridge ⓘ Billy Beane ⓘ
surface form:
Beane
Behan ⓘ Benne ⓘ MacBean ⓘ McBean ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
English
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Old English ⓘ |
| meaning | derived from Old English "bean" meaning bean (the legume) ⓘ |
| nameType |
occupational surname
ⓘ
toponymic surname ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
Apollo 12 lunar module pilot
ⓘ
fourth person to walk on the Moon ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Game of Thrones
ⓘ
Sharpe ⓘ The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
actor ⓘ astronaut ⓘ comedian ⓘ justice of the peace ⓘ naval officer ⓘ saloon keeper ⓘ test pilot ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Sheffield ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Bean Description of subject: Bean is a common English surname of Old English origin, associated with various notable individuals including the actor Sean Bean.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sean Bean
subject surface form:
Alan Bean
subject surface form:
Roy Bean
subject surface form:
Orson Bean