Patrick Hamilton
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Patrick Hamilton is the Scottish novelist and playwright best known for works like "Rope" and "Gas Light," which inspired influential stage and film adaptations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Patrick Hamilton canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T823027 — 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 Hamilton Context triple: [Hamilton, hasNotableBearer, Patrick Hamilton]
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A.
Edgar Wallace
Edgar Wallace was a prolific British writer best known for his crime novels and for contributing to the original story that inspired the 1933 film "King Kong."
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B.
Paul Le Mat
Paul Le Mat is an American actor best known for his breakout role as the hot-rodder John Milner in the coming-of-age film "American Graffiti."
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C.
James Herbert
James Herbert is a film editor known for his work on major feature films, including the fantasy action movie "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword."
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D.
Peter Fleming
Peter Fleming was a British travel writer, journalist, and adventurer, best known for his travel books and for his work as a wartime intelligence officer.
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E.
Sir Hamar Greenwood
Sir Hamar Greenwood was a British politician who served as Chief Secretary for Ireland during the Irish War of Independence, overseeing much of the British government's response to the conflict.
- 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 Hamilton Target entity description: Patrick Hamilton is the Scottish novelist and playwright best known for works like "Rope" and "Gas Light," which inspired influential stage and film adaptations.
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A.
Edgar Wallace
Edgar Wallace was a prolific British writer best known for his crime novels and for contributing to the original story that inspired the 1933 film "King Kong."
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B.
Paul Le Mat
Paul Le Mat is an American actor best known for his breakout role as the hot-rodder John Milner in the coming-of-age film "American Graffiti."
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C.
James Herbert
James Herbert is a film editor known for his work on major feature films, including the fantasy action movie "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword."
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D.
Peter Fleming
Peter Fleming was a British travel writer, journalist, and adventurer, best known for his travel books and for his work as a wartime intelligence officer.
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E.
Sir Hamar Greenwood
Sir Hamar Greenwood was a British politician who served as Chief Secretary for Ireland during the Irish War of Independence, overseeing much of the British government's response to the conflict.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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 Hamilton Description of subject: Patrick Hamilton is the Scottish novelist and playwright best known for works like "Rope" and "Gas Light," which inspired influential stage and film adaptations.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Gaslight (1944 film)