Patrick Lin
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Patrick Lin is a cinematographer and layout artist best known for his work on Pixar animated films, including serving as director of photography on "Up."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patrick Lin canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2124777 — 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 Lin Context triple: [Up, cinematographyBy, Patrick Lin]
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A.
Howie Choset
Howie Choset is an American roboticist known for his work on snake robots and modular robotics, and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
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B.
Rodney Brooks
Rodney Brooks is an influential roboticist and AI researcher known for pioneering behavior-based robotics and co-founding iRobot and Rethink Robotics.
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C.
Wolfram Burgard
Wolfram Burgard is a German computer scientist and roboticist known for his influential work in probabilistic robotics, autonomous navigation, and artificial intelligence.
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D.
Pieter Abbeel
Pieter Abbeel is a Belgian-American computer scientist and professor at UC Berkeley known for his influential work in robotics and deep reinforcement learning.
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E.
Shane Legg
Shane Legg is a computer scientist and AI researcher best known as a co-founder of DeepMind and for his influential work on artificial general intelligence.
- 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 Lin Target entity description: Patrick Lin is a cinematographer and layout artist best known for his work on Pixar animated films, including serving as director of photography on "Up."
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A.
Howie Choset
Howie Choset is an American roboticist known for his work on snake robots and modular robotics, and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
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B.
Rodney Brooks
Rodney Brooks is an influential roboticist and AI researcher known for pioneering behavior-based robotics and co-founding iRobot and Rethink Robotics.
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C.
Wolfram Burgard
Wolfram Burgard is a German computer scientist and roboticist known for his influential work in probabilistic robotics, autonomous navigation, and artificial intelligence.
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D.
Pieter Abbeel
Pieter Abbeel is a Belgian-American computer scientist and professor at UC Berkeley known for his influential work in robotics and deep reinforcement learning.
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E.
Shane Legg
Shane Legg is a computer scientist and AI researcher best known as a co-founder of DeepMind and for his influential work on artificial general intelligence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cinematographer
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film professional ⓘ layout artist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| employer |
Pixar Animation Studios
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Pixar Animation Studios ⓘ
surface form:
The Walt Disney Company (through Pixar)
|
| fieldOfWork |
animation cinematography
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computer-animated films ⓘ |
| genre | animated film ⓘ |
| industry |
animation industry
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film industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | work on Pixar animated films ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Up
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other Pixar animated feature films ⓘ |
| occupation |
cinematographer
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layout artist ⓘ |
| roleInWork | director of photography on Up ⓘ |
| workLocation | Emeryville, California ⓘ |
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 Lin Description of subject: Patrick Lin is a cinematographer and layout artist best known for his work on Pixar animated films, including serving as director of photography on "Up."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.