Patrick Cannon
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Patrick Cannon is an American politician and former mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, who gained notoriety after being convicted on federal corruption charges.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Patrick Cannon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6278392 — 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 Cannon Context triple: [Cannon, hasNotableBearer, Patrick Cannon]
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A.
Fred McMullin
Fred McMullin was a utility infielder for the Chicago White Sox best known for his role as one of the eight players implicated in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal.
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B.
John Carnes
John Carnes was an American industrialist best known for co-founding the Lima Locomotive Works, a major manufacturer of steam locomotives in the United States.
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C.
Donald McEnery
Donald McEnery is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the Pixar animated film "A Bug's Life."
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D.
Cal McVey
Cal McVey was a 19th-century American baseball player and one of the sport’s earliest professional stars, known for his versatility in the infield and outfield.
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E.
Donn Cambern
Donn Cambern was an American film editor known for his work on numerous prominent Hollywood films, including the adventure comedy "Romancing the Stone."
- 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 Cannon Target entity description: Patrick Cannon is an American politician and former mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, who gained notoriety after being convicted on federal corruption charges.
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A.
Fred McMullin
Fred McMullin was a utility infielder for the Chicago White Sox best known for his role as one of the eight players implicated in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal.
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B.
John Carnes
John Carnes was an American industrialist best known for co-founding the Lima Locomotive Works, a major manufacturer of steam locomotives in the United States.
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C.
Donald McEnery
Donald McEnery is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the Pixar animated film "A Bug's Life."
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D.
Cal McVey
Cal McVey was a 19th-century American baseball player and one of the sport’s earliest professional stars, known for his versatility in the infield and outfield.
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E.
Donn Cambern
Donn Cambern was an American film editor known for his work on numerous prominent Hollywood films, including the adventure comedy "Romancing the Stone."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
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 Cannon Description of subject: Patrick Cannon is an American politician and former mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, who gained notoriety after being convicted on federal corruption charges.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.