Patricia Ward
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Patricia Ward is best known as the widow of legendary American actor, dancer, and director Gene Kelly.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patricia Ward canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2341860 — 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: Patricia Ward Context triple: [Gene Kelly, spouse, Patricia Ward]
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A.
Patricia Southall
Patricia Southall is a former Miss Virginia USA and philanthropist who was previously married to comedian Martin Lawrence and later to NFL Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith.
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B.
Patricia Scott
Patricia Scott was the first wife of acclaimed film and theater director Mike Nichols.
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C.
Patricia Hodgson
Patricia Hodgson is a British media executive and regulator known for senior roles at the BBC and as chair of Ofcom.
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D.
Patricia Greene
Patricia Greene is a British actress best known for her long-running role as Jill Archer in the BBC radio soap opera "The Archers."
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E.
Patricia Strawn
Patricia Strawn is known as the wife of American film producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr., a prominent figure in the Hollywood film industry.
- 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: Patricia Ward Target entity description: Patricia Ward is best known as the widow of legendary American actor, dancer, and director Gene Kelly.
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A.
Patricia Southall
Patricia Southall is a former Miss Virginia USA and philanthropist who was previously married to comedian Martin Lawrence and later to NFL Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith.
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B.
Patricia Scott
Patricia Scott was the first wife of acclaimed film and theater director Mike Nichols.
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C.
Patricia Hodgson
Patricia Hodgson is a British media executive and regulator known for senior roles at the BBC and as chair of Ofcom.
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D.
Patricia Greene
Patricia Greene is a British actress best known for her long-running role as Jill Archer in the BBC radio soap opera "The Archers."
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E.
Patricia Strawn
Patricia Strawn is known as the wife of American film producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr., a prominent figure in the Hollywood film industry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre | non-fiction ⓘ |
| name | Patricia Ward ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the widow of Gene Kelly ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
author ⓘ biographer ⓘ dancer ⓘ film director ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| spouse |
Gene Kelly
ⓘ
Patricia Ward ⓘ |
| wroteAbout | Gene Kelly ⓘ |
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: Patricia Ward Description of subject: Patricia Ward is best known as the widow of legendary American actor, dancer, and director Gene Kelly.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.