Daniel Patterson
E30851
Daniel Patterson was the first husband of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Daniel Patterson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T170733 — 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: Daniel Patterson Context triple: [Mary Baker Eddy, spouse, Daniel Patterson]
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A.
Charles Begole
Charles Begole was an American mountaineer best known as one of the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Whitney in the 19th century.
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B.
Jared C. Nicholson
Jared C. Nicholson is an American politician and attorney who serves as the mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts.
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C.
Martin Lindauer
Martin Lindauer was a German behavioral biologist and prominent honeybee researcher known for his pioneering work on insect communication and social organization.
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D.
Abe Pollin
Abe Pollin was an American real estate developer and sports executive best known for owning multiple Washington, D.C. professional sports franchises and for financing and building the Capital Centre and later the MCI Center (now Capital One Arena).
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E.
Aaron Courville
Aaron Courville is a machine learning researcher and professor best known as a co-author of the influential deep learning textbook alongside Yoshua Bengio and Ian Goodfellow.
- 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: Daniel Patterson Target entity description: Daniel Patterson was the first husband of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science.
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A.
Charles Begole
Charles Begole was an American mountaineer best known as one of the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Whitney in the 19th century.
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B.
Jared C. Nicholson
Jared C. Nicholson is an American politician and attorney who serves as the mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts.
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C.
Martin Lindauer
Martin Lindauer was a German behavioral biologist and prominent honeybee researcher known for his pioneering work on insect communication and social organization.
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D.
Abe Pollin
Abe Pollin was an American real estate developer and sports executive best known for owning multiple Washington, D.C. professional sports franchises and for financing and building the Capital Centre and later the MCI Center (now Capital One Arena).
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E.
Aaron Courville
Aaron Courville is a machine learning researcher and professor best known as a co-author of the influential deep learning textbook alongside Yoshua Bengio and Ian Goodfellow.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (6)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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person ⓘ religious movement ⓘ |
| notableFor | founding Christian Science ⓘ |
| spouse |
Daniel Patterson
self-linksurface differs
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Mary Baker Eddy ⓘ |
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: Daniel Patterson Description of subject: Daniel Patterson was the first husband of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mary Baker Eddy