Patrick McDermott
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Patrick McDermott is an American cameraman best known for his mysterious 2005 disappearance during a fishing trip off the coast of California while dating singer Olivia Newton-John.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patrick Kim McDermott | 1 |
| Patrick McDermott canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4069932 — 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 McDermott Context triple: [McDermott, hasNotableBearer, Patrick McDermott]
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A.
Kevin McDermott
Kevin McDermott is a name shared by several notable individuals, including a former NFL long snapper and other public figures in sports and entertainment.
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B.
Scott McDermott
Scott McDermott is a notable individual distinguished enough in his field or public life to be specifically recognized as a bearer of the McDermott surname.
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C.
Brian McDermott
Brian McDermott is a former professional rugby league player and highly successful English rugby league coach, best known for his trophy-laden tenure with the Leeds Rhinos.
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D.
Tom McDermott
Tom McDermott is a New Orleans–based jazz and ragtime pianist and composer known for his eclectic style and deep knowledge of early American music.
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E.
Jim Cavanaugh
Jim Cavanaugh is an American businessman and aviation enthusiast best known as the founder of the Cavanaugh Flight Museum, which preserves and displays historic aircraft.
- 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 McDermott Target entity description: Patrick McDermott is an American cameraman best known for his mysterious 2005 disappearance during a fishing trip off the coast of California while dating singer Olivia Newton-John.
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A.
Kevin McDermott
Kevin McDermott is a name shared by several notable individuals, including a former NFL long snapper and other public figures in sports and entertainment.
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B.
Scott McDermott
Scott McDermott is a notable individual distinguished enough in his field or public life to be specifically recognized as a bearer of the McDermott surname.
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C.
Brian McDermott
Brian McDermott is a former professional rugby league player and highly successful English rugby league coach, best known for his trophy-laden tenure with the Leeds Rhinos.
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D.
Tom McDermott
Tom McDermott is a New Orleans–based jazz and ragtime pianist and composer known for his eclectic style and deep knowledge of early American music.
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E.
Jim Cavanaugh
Jim Cavanaugh is an American businessman and aviation enthusiast best known as the founder of the Cavanaugh Flight Museum, which preserves and displays historic aircraft.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cameraman
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Patrick Kim McDermott
ⓘ
linked to:
Patrick McDermott
|
| causeOfDisappearance | presumed lost at sea ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1957-09-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfDisappearance | 2005-06-30 ⓘ |
| disappearanceStatus | unsolved ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Korean American ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | television production ⓘ |
| hasChild | Chance McDermott ⓘ |
| hasNationality | American ⓘ |
| legalStatus | presumed dead ⓘ |
| nameAtBirth | Pat Kim ⓘ |
| notableFor |
mysterious disappearance in 2005
ⓘ
relationship with Olivia Newton-John ⓘ |
| occupation | cameraman ⓘ |
| participantIn | fishing trip on charter boat ⓘ |
| partner | Olivia Newton-John ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | South Korea ⓘ |
| placeOfDisappearance | off the coast of California ⓘ |
| residence | Los Angeles, California ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| significantEvent | disappeared during a fishing trip ⓘ |
| spouse | Yvette Nipar ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
media coverage about disappearance
ⓘ
missing person investigations ⓘ |
| wasOnVessel | Freedom (fishing charter boat) ⓘ |
| workedOn | sports television productions ⓘ |
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 McDermott Description of subject: Patrick McDermott is an American cameraman best known for his mysterious 2005 disappearance during a fishing trip off the coast of California while dating singer Olivia Newton-John.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Patrick McDermott