Patrick Donahue
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Patrick Donahue is a film editor known for his work on the 1987 comedy film "Happy New Year."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Patrick Donahue canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12657537 — 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: Patrick Donahue Context triple: [Happy New Year (1987 film), editedBy, Patrick Donahue]
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A.
Adam Donaghey
Adam Donaghey is an American film producer known for his work in independent cinema, including involvement in the production of the film "A Ghost Story."
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B.
Dave O’Donnell
Dave O’Donnell is a music producer and engineer known for his work with prominent rock and pop artists.
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C.
Skip Donahue
Skip Donahue is one of the two hapless friends, played by Gene Wilder, who are wrongly imprisoned and get into comedic misadventures in the 1980 film "Stir Crazy."
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D.
Russ Conway
Russ Conway was a popular British pianist and entertainer known for his cheerful boogie-woogie style and a string of chart-topping hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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E.
Russ Conway
Russ Conway was an American character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television.
- 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: Patrick Donahue Target entity description: Patrick Donahue is a film editor known for his work on the 1987 comedy film "Happy New Year."
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A.
Adam Donaghey
Adam Donaghey is an American film producer known for his work in independent cinema, including involvement in the production of the film "A Ghost Story."
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B.
Dave O’Donnell
Dave O’Donnell is a music producer and engineer known for his work with prominent rock and pop artists.
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C.
Skip Donahue
Skip Donahue is one of the two hapless friends, played by Gene Wilder, who are wrongly imprisoned and get into comedic misadventures in the 1980 film "Stir Crazy."
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D.
Russ Conway
Russ Conway was a popular British pianist and entertainer known for his cheerful boogie-woogie style and a string of chart-topping hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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E.
Russ Conway
Russ Conway was an American character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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film editor ⓘ |
| genre | comedy film ⓘ |
| knownFor | film editing ⓘ |
| notableWork | Happy New Year (1987 film) ⓘ |
| occupation | film editor ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1987 ⓘ |
| workedOn | Happy New Year (1987 film) ⓘ |
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: Patrick Donahue Description of subject: Patrick Donahue is a film editor known for his work on the 1987 comedy film "Happy New Year."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Happy New Year