Benjamin Guggenheim
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Benjamin Guggenheim was an American businessman and member of the wealthy Guggenheim family, best known for his death aboard the RMS Titanic in 1912.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Benjamin Guggenheim canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11596046 — 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 Guggenheim Context triple: [Peggy Guggenheim, father, Benjamin Guggenheim]
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A.
Hugo Schiff
Hugo Schiff was a 19th-century Italian chemist best known for his work on aldehydes and amines, including the discovery of Schiff bases.
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B.
John J. Astor
John J. Astor was a prominent American businessman and political figure from the wealthy Astor family, known for his influence in New York’s commercial and civic life.
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C.
Vincent Astor
Vincent Astor was an American businessman, philanthropist, and heir to the Astor family fortune who became one of the wealthiest men of his era and a prominent New York society figure.
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D.
Isidor Straus
Isidor Straus was a German-born American businessman, co-owner of Macy’s department store, and U.S. Congressman who perished with his wife Ida in the sinking of the RMS Titanic.
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E.
Philip Davis Guggenheim
Philip Davis Guggenheim is an American filmmaker and documentary director best known for works such as "An Inconvenient Truth" and "He Named Me Malala."
- 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 Guggenheim Target entity description: Benjamin Guggenheim was an American businessman and member of the wealthy Guggenheim family, best known for his death aboard the RMS Titanic in 1912.
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A.
Hugo Schiff
Hugo Schiff was a 19th-century Italian chemist best known for his work on aldehydes and amines, including the discovery of Schiff bases.
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B.
John J. Astor
John J. Astor was a prominent American businessman and political figure from the wealthy Astor family, known for his influence in New York’s commercial and civic life.
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C.
Vincent Astor
Vincent Astor was an American businessman, philanthropist, and heir to the Astor family fortune who became one of the wealthiest men of his era and a prominent New York society figure.
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D.
Isidor Straus
Isidor Straus was a German-born American businessman, co-owner of Macy’s department store, and U.S. Congressman who perished with his wife Ida in the sinking of the RMS Titanic.
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E.
Philip Davis Guggenheim
Philip Davis Guggenheim is an American filmmaker and documentary director best known for works such as "An Inconvenient Truth" and "He Named Me Malala."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American businessperson
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Titanic victim ⓘ businessperson ⓘ human ⓘ |
| birthName | Benjamin Guggenheim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | body not recovered ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | sinking of the RMS Titanic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryOfBirth | 19th century ⓘ |
| centuryOfDeath | 20th century ⓘ |
| child |
Barbara Hazel Guggenheim
NERFINISHED
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Benita Guggenheim NERFINISHED ⓘ Marguerite Guggenheim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| classOnShip | first class ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1865-10-26 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1912-04-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfTitanicSinking | 1912-04-15 ⓘ |
| embarkedOnTitanicAt | Cherbourg, France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Guggenheim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Meyer Guggenheim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Benjamin Guggenheim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Benjamin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | drowning ⓘ |
| memberOf | Guggenheim family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Barbara Myers Guggenheim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | sinking of the RMS Titanic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | dying in the sinking of the RMS Titanic ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Daniel Guggenheim
NERFINISHED
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Simon Guggenheim NERFINISHED ⓘ Solomon R. Guggenheim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | businessman ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Philadelphia
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surface form:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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| placeOfDeath | North Atlantic Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
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| shipSunkOn | RMS Titanic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling |
Cora Guggenheim
NERFINISHED
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Daniel Guggenheim NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeanette Guggenheim NERFINISHED ⓘ Morris Guggenheim NERFINISHED ⓘ Murry Guggenheim NERFINISHED ⓘ Rose Guggenheim NERFINISHED ⓘ Simon Guggenheim NERFINISHED ⓘ Solomon R. Guggenheim NERFINISHED ⓘ William Guggenheim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Florette Seligman 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 Guggenheim Description of subject: Benjamin Guggenheim was an American businessman and member of the wealthy Guggenheim family, best known for his death aboard the RMS Titanic in 1912.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.