Dennis Patrick
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Dennis Patrick was an American character actor best known for his work in film and television during the mid-20th century, including prominent roles in series like "Dark Shadows" and "Dallas."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dennis Patrick canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12809822 — 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: Dennis Patrick Context triple: [Joe (1970 film), stars, Dennis Patrick]
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A.
Dennis Scott
Dennis Scott is a former American professional basketball player best known as a prolific three-point shooter in the NBA, particularly with the Orlando Magic in the 1990s.
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B.
Dennis Murphy
Dennis Murphy was an American sports entrepreneur best known for co-founding several upstart professional leagues, including the American Basketball Association.
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C.
Dennis Murphy
Dennis Murphy is an American television journalist best known as a longtime correspondent and host for NBC's newsmagazine program Dateline NBC.
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D.
Dennis Murphy
Dennis Murphy was a screenwriter known for his work on the film "The Sergeant."
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E.
Dennis Patterson
Dennis Patterson is a central character in the British television drama-comedy "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet," known as the responsible, level-headed leader among a group of itinerant construction workers.
- 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: Dennis Patrick Target entity description: Dennis Patrick was an American character actor best known for his work in film and television during the mid-20th century, including prominent roles in series like "Dark Shadows" and "Dallas."
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A.
Dennis Scott
Dennis Scott is a former American professional basketball player best known as a prolific three-point shooter in the NBA, particularly with the Orlando Magic in the 1990s.
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B.
Dennis Murphy
Dennis Murphy was an American sports entrepreneur best known for co-founding several upstart professional leagues, including the American Basketball Association.
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C.
Dennis Murphy
Dennis Murphy is an American television journalist best known as a longtime correspondent and host for NBC's newsmagazine program Dateline NBC.
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D.
Dennis Murphy
Dennis Murphy was a screenwriter known for his work on the film "The Sergeant."
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E.
Dennis Patterson
Dennis Patterson is a central character in the British television drama-comedy "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet," known as the responsible, level-headed leader among a group of itinerant construction workers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
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: Dennis Patrick Description of subject: Dennis Patrick was an American character actor best known for his work in film and television during the mid-20th century, including prominent roles in series like "Dark Shadows" and "Dallas."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.