John Patterson
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John Patterson is the mild-mannered, hardworking father and family dentist at the center of Lynn Johnston’s comic strip "For Better or For Worse."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Patterson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13008842 — 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: John Patterson Context triple: [For Better or For Worse, mainCharacter, John Patterson]
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A.
John J. Rooney
John J. Rooney was an American Democratic politician who served for many years as a U.S. Representative from New York.
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B.
John McKinley
John McKinley was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the mid-19th century, known for his participation in significant cases involving federal power and economic development.
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C.
Llewellyn Thompson
Llewellyn Thompson was a prominent American diplomat and Soviet expert who served as U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union during key Cold War crises, including the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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D.
Rance Cleaveland
Rance Cleaveland is a computer scientist known for his work in formal methods and model checking, particularly in the verification of concurrent and distributed systems.
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E.
William H. Gleason
William H. Gleason was an American politician and businessman active in the 19th century, notably involved in Florida’s development and governance during the Reconstruction era.
- 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: John Patterson Target entity description: John Patterson is the mild-mannered, hardworking father and family dentist at the center of Lynn Johnston’s comic strip "For Better or For Worse."
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A.
John J. Rooney
John J. Rooney was an American Democratic politician who served for many years as a U.S. Representative from New York.
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B.
John McKinley
John McKinley was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the mid-19th century, known for his participation in significant cases involving federal power and economic development.
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C.
Llewellyn Thompson
Llewellyn Thompson was a prominent American diplomat and Soviet expert who served as U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union during key Cold War crises, including the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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D.
Rance Cleaveland
Rance Cleaveland is a computer scientist known for his work in formal methods and model checking, particularly in the verification of concurrent and distributed systems.
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E.
William H. Gleason
William H. Gleason was an American politician and businessman active in the 19th century, notably involved in Florida’s development and governance during the Reconstruction era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comic strip character
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fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | For Better or For Worse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsWithCharacter |
April Patterson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elizabeth Patterson NERFINISHED ⓘ Elly Patterson NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Patterson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
April Patterson
NERFINISHED
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Elizabeth Patterson NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Patterson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork | Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Lynn Johnston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyRole | husband ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceIn | For Better or For Worse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | family comic strip ⓘ |
| hasCreatorNationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| hasLastName | Patterson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasProfessionSetting | dental clinic ⓘ |
| isCentralCharacterOf | For Better or For Worse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | newspaper comic strip ⓘ |
| nationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| occupation |
dentist
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family dentist ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
hardworking
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mild-mannered ⓘ |
| residence | Milborough NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInWork | father ⓘ |
| spouse | Elly Patterson 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: John Patterson Description of subject: John Patterson is the mild-mannered, hardworking father and family dentist at the center of Lynn Johnston’s comic strip "For Better or For Worse."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.