Michael Allan Patton
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Michael Allan Patton is an American singer, songwriter, and experimental musician best known as the versatile frontman of the rock band Faith No More and numerous avant-garde projects.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Allan Patton canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13259331 — 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)
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Target entity: Michael Allan Patton Context triple: [Mike Patton, birthName, Michael Allan Patton]
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A.
Michael Wayne
Michael Wayne was an American film producer and the eldest son of legendary actor John Wayne, known for managing his father's estate and producing several of his films.
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B.
Michael Bates
Michael Bates was a British character actor known for his roles in films and television, including a notable appearance in the war epic "Patton" (1970).
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C.
Myron Leon Wallace
Myron Leon Wallace, better known as Mike Wallace, was a prominent American broadcast journalist and longtime correspondent for the television news program "60 Minutes."
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D.
Carl Benton Reid
Carl Benton Reid was an American character actor known for his work in mid-20th-century film, television, and theater.
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E.
Carlos Ray Norris
Carlos Ray Norris, better known as Chuck Norris, is an American martial artist, actor, and cultural icon famed for his action films, television roles, and exaggerated tough-guy persona.
- 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: Michael Allan Patton Target entity description: Michael Allan Patton is an American singer, songwriter, and experimental musician best known as the versatile frontman of the rock band Faith No More and numerous avant-garde projects.
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A.
Michael Wayne
Michael Wayne was an American film producer and the eldest son of legendary actor John Wayne, known for managing his father's estate and producing several of his films.
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B.
Michael Bates
Michael Bates was a British character actor known for his roles in films and television, including a notable appearance in the war epic "Patton" (1970).
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C.
Myron Leon Wallace
Myron Leon Wallace, better known as Mike Wallace, was a prominent American broadcast journalist and longtime correspondent for the television news program "60 Minutes."
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D.
Carl Benton Reid
Carl Benton Reid was an American character actor known for his work in mid-20th-century film, television, and theater.
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E.
Carlos Ray Norris
Carlos Ray Norris, better known as Chuck Norris, is an American martial artist, actor, and cultural icon famed for his action films, television roles, and exaggerated tough-guy persona.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American musician
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Mike Patton ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Dead Cross
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Faith No More ⓘ Fantômas ⓘ Lovage ⓘ Mondo Cane ⓘ Mr. Bungle ⓘ Nevermen ⓘ Peeping Tom ⓘ Tomahawk ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| founded | Ipecac Recordings ⓘ |
| genre |
avant-garde music
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experimental music ⓘ metal ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| knownFor |
experimental vocal techniques
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genre-crossing collaborations ⓘ wide vocal range ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Dead Cross
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Faith No More ⓘ Fantômas ⓘ Lovage ⓘ Mondo Cane ⓘ Mr. Bungle ⓘ Nevermen ⓘ Peeping Tom ⓘ Tomahawk ⓘ |
| name | Michael Allan Patton ⓘ |
| notableWork | Faith No More ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
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record label founder ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| performedInLanguage |
French
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Italian ⓘ Japanese ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| vocalRole | lead vocalist of Faith No More ⓘ |
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: Michael Allan Patton Description of subject: Michael Allan Patton is an American singer, songwriter, and experimental musician best known as the versatile frontman of the rock band Faith No More and numerous avant-garde projects.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.