Ben Shenkman
E509260
Ben Shenkman is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including acclaimed roles in projects like "Angels in America."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ben Shenkman canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4035341 — 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 Shenkman Context triple: [Fish in the Dark, hasCastMember, Ben Shenkman]
-
A.
Greg Shenkman
Greg Shenkman is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the customer experience and contact center software company Genesys.
-
B.
Dov Frohman
Dov Frohman is an Israeli engineer and inventor best known for pioneering the EPROM (erasable programmable read-only memory) and for his leadership role at Intel Israel.
-
C.
Ali Weinberg
Ali Weinberg is an American journalist and television news producer known for her work covering politics for major U.S. news networks.
-
D.
Dan Gershon
Dan Gershon is known as the brother of American actress Gina Gershon.
-
E.
Michael Shvo
Michael Shvo is a high-profile real estate developer and art collector known for leading luxury property projects in major global cities.
- 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 Shenkman Target entity description: Ben Shenkman is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including acclaimed roles in projects like "Angels in America."
-
A.
Greg Shenkman
Greg Shenkman is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the customer experience and contact center software company Genesys.
-
B.
Dov Frohman
Dov Frohman is an Israeli engineer and inventor best known for pioneering the EPROM (erasable programmable read-only memory) and for his leadership role at Intel Israel.
-
C.
Ali Weinberg
Ali Weinberg is an American journalist and television news producer known for her work covering politics for major U.S. news networks.
-
D.
Dan Gershon
Dan Gershon is known as the brother of American actress Gina Gershon.
-
E.
Michael Shvo
Michael Shvo is a high-profile real estate developer and art collector known for leading luxury property projects in major global cities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
ⓘ
21st century ⓘ |
| awardNomination |
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Shenkman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
comedy
ⓘ
drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Ben NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMedium |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ theater ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Ben Shenkman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Axe Capital lawyer Ira Schirmer in Billions
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dr. Jeremiah Sacani in Royal Pains NERFINISHED ⓘ Louis Ironson in Angels in America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Angels in America
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Angels in America (HBO miniseries) NERFINISHED ⓘ Billions NERFINISHED ⓘ Blue Valentine NERFINISHED ⓘ Canterbury’s Law NERFINISHED ⓘ Curb Your Enthusiasm NERFINISHED ⓘ Damages NERFINISHED ⓘ Grey’s Anatomy NERFINISHED ⓘ Law & Order NERFINISHED ⓘ Law & Order: Criminal Intent NERFINISHED ⓘ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit NERFINISHED ⓘ Must Love Dogs NERFINISHED ⓘ Pi NERFINISHED ⓘ Royal Pains NERFINISHED ⓘ The Good Fight NERFINISHED ⓘ The Good Wife NERFINISHED ⓘ The Night Of NERFINISHED ⓘ The Paul Reiser Show NERFINISHED ⓘ The Trial of the Chicago 7 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
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 Shenkman Description of subject: Ben Shenkman is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including acclaimed roles in projects like "Angels in America."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (film)