Ben Bass
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Ben Bass is a Canadian-American actor best known for his role as Detective Sam Swarek on the television series "Rookie Blue."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ben Bass canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9222662 — 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 Bass Context triple: [Alex Martin, coSurvivorWith, Ben Bass]
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A.
Ben Bass
Ben Bass is a resourceful and determined surgeon who becomes stranded in the wilderness after a plane crash in the romantic survival drama "The Mountain Between Us."
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B.
Edward Bass
Edward Bass is an American businessman and philanthropist best known for financing large-scale environmental and scientific projects, including the Biosphere 2 research facility.
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C.
David Bass
David Bass is a person known primarily as the sibling of Richard Bass.
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D.
George Bassman
George Bassman was an American composer and arranger known for his work on film scores and popular music in Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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E.
Randy Bass
Randy Bass is an American former professional baseball player best known in Japan as a legendary power-hitting first baseman for the Hanshin Tigers in the 1980s.
- 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 Bass Target entity description: Ben Bass is a Canadian-American actor best known for his role as Detective Sam Swarek on the television series "Rookie Blue."
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A.
Ben Bass
Ben Bass is a resourceful and determined surgeon who becomes stranded in the wilderness after a plane crash in the romantic survival drama "The Mountain Between Us."
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B.
Edward Bass
Edward Bass is an American businessman and philanthropist best known for financing large-scale environmental and scientific projects, including the Biosphere 2 research facility.
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C.
David Bass
David Bass is a person known primarily as the sibling of Richard Bass.
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D.
George Bassman
George Bassman was an American composer and arranger known for his work on film scores and popular music in Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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E.
Randy Bass
Randy Bass is an American former professional baseball player best known in Japan as a legendary power-hitting first baseman for the Hanshin Tigers in the 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Canadian Screen Award nomination
NERFINISHED
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Gemini Award nomination NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterInTVSeries | Sam Swarek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Canada
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United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
NERFINISHED
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The London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art NERFINISHED ⓘ The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | police procedural television series ⓘ |
| hasEthnicity | Canadian-American ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Ben Bass NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAward |
Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role
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Gemini Award nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series ⓘ |
| notableFor | portraying Detective Sam Swarek on Rookie Blue ⓘ |
| notableRole | Sam Swarek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Cool, Dry Place
NERFINISHED
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Bones NERFINISHED ⓘ Bride of Chucky NERFINISHED ⓘ CSI: Miami NERFINISHED ⓘ Flashpoint NERFINISHED ⓘ Forever Knight NERFINISHED ⓘ La Femme Nikita NERFINISHED ⓘ Law & Order NERFINISHED ⓘ Queer as Folk NERFINISHED ⓘ Queer as Folk (North American TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Rookie Blue NERFINISHED ⓘ Saving Hope NERFINISHED ⓘ The 6th Day NERFINISHED ⓘ The Eleventh Hour NERFINISHED ⓘ The Eleventh Hour (Canadian TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Eleventh Hour (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Listener NERFINISHED ⓘ Would Be Kings NERFINISHED ⓘ Would Be Kings (miniseries) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | Rookie Blue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Canada
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United States of America ⓘ |
| spouse | Laura Carswell 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 Bass Description of subject: Ben Bass is a Canadian-American actor best known for his role as Detective Sam Swarek on the television series "Rookie Blue."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Alex Martin