Patten
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Patten is a surname and variant spelling of "Patton," borne by various individuals across English-speaking countries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patten canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2744762 — 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: Patten Context triple: [Patton, hasVariant, Patten]
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A.
Patterson
Patterson is a small agricultural and residential city in California’s Central Valley, known as the “Apricot Capital of the World” and located in Stanislaus County.
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B.
Patterson
Patterson is a common English and Scottish surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as literature, politics, sports, and entertainment.
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C.
Tilton
Tilton is a locality in the United Kingdom notable for lending its name to the territorial designation of the peerage title Baron Keynes of Tilton.
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D.
Palmer
Palmer is an English surname borne by numerous notable figures, including politicians, artists, and scientists, and is derived from medieval pilgrims who carried palm branches.
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E.
Palmer
Palmer is a small city in south-central Alaska known for its agricultural heritage and scenic Matanuska Valley setting.
- 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: Patten Target entity description: Patten is a surname and variant spelling of "Patton," borne by various individuals across English-speaking countries.
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A.
Patterson
Patterson is a small agricultural and residential city in California’s Central Valley, known as the “Apricot Capital of the World” and located in Stanislaus County.
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B.
Patterson
Patterson is a common English and Scottish surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as literature, politics, sports, and entertainment.
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C.
Tilton
Tilton is a locality in the United Kingdom notable for lending its name to the territorial designation of the peerage title Baron Keynes of Tilton.
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D.
Palmer
Palmer is an English surname borne by numerous notable figures, including politicians, artists, and scientists, and is derived from medieval pilgrims who carried palm branches.
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E.
Palmer
Palmer is a small city in south-central Alaska known for its agricultural heritage and scenic Matanuska Valley setting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
English-language surnames
ⓘ
surnames of British Isles origin ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalRelation |
MacPatton
ⓘ
Paterson ⓘ |
| hasFrequencyRegion | Anglophone countries ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasNameType | patronymic surname ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Alan Patten
ⓘ
Basil Patten ⓘ Brian Patten ⓘ Charles J. Patten ⓘ Chris Patten ⓘ Eve Patten ⓘ Fred Patten ⓘ Jamie Patten ⓘ John Patten (Australian politician) ⓘ John Patten (British politician) ⓘ Marguerite Patten ⓘ Simon Patten ⓘ Steve Patten ⓘ Tom Patten ⓘ William H. Patten ⓘ William J. Patten ⓘ William Patten (historian) ⓘ |
| hasToponymicUse |
Patten, Georgia
ⓘ
Patten, Maine ⓘ |
| hasVariantSpelling | Patton ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| isRelatedSurname |
Paton
ⓘ
Patten (Irish surname) ⓘ Patton ⓘ |
| isUsedInCountry |
Australia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| mayDeriveFromGivenName |
Pat
ⓘ
Patrick ⓘ |
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: Patten Description of subject: Patten is a surname and variant spelling of "Patton," borne by various individuals across English-speaking countries.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.