Benjamin Mee
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Benjamin Mee is a British writer and former journalist best known for his memoir about buying and restoring a dilapidated zoo, which inspired the film "We Bought a Zoo."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Benjamin Mee canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7497823 — 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: Benjamin Mee Context triple: [We Bought a Zoo, basedOnAuthor, Benjamin Mee]
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A.
Piers Torday
Piers Torday is a British children's author best known for his award-winning fantasy series "The Last Wild."
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B.
Carl Bennett
Carl Bennett was an American basketball coach and executive best known for his leadership role with the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons franchise in its early professional years.
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C.
Iain Farrington
Iain Farrington is a British pianist, organist, composer, and arranger known for his versatile work across classical and contemporary music, including high-profile national events.
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D.
Martin Sixsmith
Martin Sixsmith is a British journalist, author, and former BBC correspondent known for his investigative writing, including the book that inspired the film "Philomena."
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E.
Nicholas Beauman
Nicholas Beauman is a British editor and publisher known for championing and reissuing neglected literary works, particularly through the imprint Persephone Books.
- 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: Benjamin Mee Target entity description: Benjamin Mee is a British writer and former journalist best known for his memoir about buying and restoring a dilapidated zoo, which inspired the film "We Bought a Zoo."
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A.
Piers Torday
Piers Torday is a British children's author best known for his award-winning fantasy series "The Last Wild."
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B.
Carl Bennett
Carl Bennett was an American basketball coach and executive best known for his leadership role with the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons franchise in its early professional years.
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C.
Iain Farrington
Iain Farrington is a British pianist, organist, composer, and arranger known for his versatile work across classical and contemporary music, including high-profile national events.
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D.
Martin Sixsmith
Martin Sixsmith is a British journalist, author, and former BBC correspondent known for his investigative writing, including the book that inspired the film "Philomena."
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E.
Nicholas Beauman
Nicholas Beauman is a British editor and publisher known for championing and reissuing neglected literary works, particularly through the imprint Persephone Books.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
ⓘ
film ⓘ human ⓘ journalist ⓘ memoirist ⓘ zoo ⓘ |
| author | Benjamin Mee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
We Bought a Zoo
NERFINISHED
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film We Bought a Zoo ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | brain tumour ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Cameron Crowe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Durham University
NERFINISHED
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UCL (University College London) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Dartmoor Zoological Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
popular science writing
ⓘ
zoology writing ⓘ |
| genre |
memoir
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memoir ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Ella Mee
NERFINISHED
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Milo Mee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWrittenFor |
Men's Health (UK edition)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Daily Telegraph NERFINISHED ⓘ The Guardian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Devon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Benjamin Mee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
purchase of Dartmoor Wildlife Park
ⓘ
reopening of Dartmoor Zoological Park ⓘ |
| notableFor |
buying and restoring a dilapidated zoo
ⓘ
inspiring the film We Bought a Zoo ⓘ |
| notableWork | We Bought a Zoo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
ⓘ
writer ⓘ zoo owner ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | director of Dartmoor Zoological Park ⓘ |
| publisher | HarperCollins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Dartmoor Zoological Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Katherine Mee 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: Benjamin Mee Description of subject: Benjamin Mee is a British writer and former journalist best known for his memoir about buying and restoring a dilapidated zoo, which inspired the film "We Bought a Zoo."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.