Patrick Sheane Duncan
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Patrick Sheane Duncan is an American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for writing the acclaimed film "Mr. Holland's Opus."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Patrick Sheane Duncan canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5303405 — 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 Sheane Duncan Context triple: [Mr. Holland's Opus, screenwriter, Patrick Sheane Duncan]
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A.
Robert Kincaid
Robert Kincaid is a solitary National Geographic photographer whose brief, intense love affair with an Iowa farm wife forms the emotional core of the romantic drama "The Bridges of Madison County."
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B.
Roderick Kinney
Roderick Kinney is an individual notable enough to be specifically identified as a bearer of the Kinney surname.
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C.
Malcolm Dixon
Malcolm Dixon was a British actor and dwarf performer best known for his roles in fantasy and science-fiction films of the late 20th century.
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D.
Sheridan Crane
Sheridan Crane is a central fictional character from the American soap opera "Passions," known for her tumultuous romantic storylines and ties to the wealthy Crane family.
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E.
Dixon Steele
Dixon Steele is a troubled, hard-boiled Hollywood screenwriter whose volatile temperament and moral ambiguity drive the dark psychological drama of "In a Lonely Place."
- 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 Sheane Duncan Target entity description: Patrick Sheane Duncan is an American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for writing the acclaimed film "Mr. Holland's Opus."
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A.
Robert Kincaid
Robert Kincaid is a solitary National Geographic photographer whose brief, intense love affair with an Iowa farm wife forms the emotional core of the romantic drama "The Bridges of Madison County."
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B.
Roderick Kinney
Roderick Kinney is an individual notable enough to be specifically identified as a bearer of the Kinney surname.
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C.
Malcolm Dixon
Malcolm Dixon was a British actor and dwarf performer best known for his roles in fantasy and science-fiction films of the late 20th century.
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D.
Sheridan Crane
Sheridan Crane is a central fictional character from the American soap opera "Passions," known for her tumultuous romantic storylines and ties to the wealthy Crane family.
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E.
Dixon Steele
Dixon Steele is a troubled, hard-boiled Hollywood screenwriter whose volatile temperament and moral ambiguity drive the dark psychological drama of "In a Lonely Place."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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film ⓘ film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film directing
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film industry ⓘ film production ⓘ screenwriting ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| hasRole |
director
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producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| isKnownFor | writing the film "Mr. Holland's Opus" ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Patrick Sheane Duncan ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableWork | Mr. Holland's Opus ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Patrick Sheane Duncan ⓘ |
| wrote | Mr. Holland's Opus ⓘ |
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 Sheane Duncan Description of subject: Patrick Sheane Duncan is an American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for writing the acclaimed film "Mr. Holland's Opus."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.