Benjamin Schiff Platt
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Benjamin Schiff Platt is an American actor and singer best known for originating the title role in the Broadway musical "Dear Evan Hansen" and for his performances in film and television.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Benjamin Schiff Platt canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9368319 — 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 Schiff Platt Context triple: [Ben Platt, birthName, Benjamin Schiff Platt]
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A.
John Boyd Thacher
John Boyd Thacher was an American politician, historian, and author who served as mayor of Albany, New York, and was known for his works on Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America.
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B.
Benjamin E. Lippincott
Benjamin E. Lippincott was an influential American political scientist and scholar whose contributions to the field are commemorated by an academic award bearing his name.
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C.
William Holbrook
William Holbrook is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Holbrook.
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D.
William Platt
William Platt was a British Army general best known for leading successful operations against Italian forces in East Africa during the Second World War.
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E.
Dewitt Peters
Dewitt Peters was an American educator and art promoter best known for fostering and popularizing Haitian art in the mid-20th century.
- 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 Schiff Platt Target entity description: Benjamin Schiff Platt is an American actor and singer best known for originating the title role in the Broadway musical "Dear Evan Hansen" and for his performances in film and television.
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A.
John Boyd Thacher
John Boyd Thacher was an American politician, historian, and author who served as mayor of Albany, New York, and was known for his works on Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America.
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B.
Benjamin E. Lippincott
Benjamin E. Lippincott was an influential American political scientist and scholar whose contributions to the field are commemorated by an academic award bearing his name.
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C.
William Holbrook
William Holbrook is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Holbrook.
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D.
William Platt
William Platt was a British Army general best known for leading successful operations against Italian forces in East Africa during the Second World War.
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E.
Dewitt Peters
Dewitt Peters was an American educator and art promoter best known for fostering and popularizing Haitian art in the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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Broadway performer ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Musical Performance in a Daytime Program
NERFINISHED
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Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Benjamin Schiff Platt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1993-09-24 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia University
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Harvard-Westlake School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Platt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
musical theatre
ⓘ
pop ⓘ |
| givenName | Benjamin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.benplattmusic.com/ ⓘ |
| knownFor | originating the title role in the Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen ⓘ |
| languagesSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Ben Platt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dear Evan Hansen
NERFINISHED
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Dear Evan Hansen (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Parade (Broadway revival) NERFINISHED ⓘ Pitch Perfect NERFINISHED ⓘ Pitch Perfect 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Reverie (album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Sing to Me Instead NERFINISHED ⓘ The Politician NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| parent |
Julie Beren Platt
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marc Platt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performedIn |
Dear Evan Hansen (Broadway)
NERFINISHED
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Parade (2023 Broadway revival) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Book of Mormon (musical) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Los Angeles, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Atlantic Records ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| sibling | Jonah Platt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Noah Galvin 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 Schiff Platt Description of subject: Benjamin Schiff Platt is an American actor and singer best known for originating the title role in the Broadway musical "Dear Evan Hansen" and for his performances in film and television.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.