Patrick Somerville
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Patrick Somerville is an American novelist and television writer-producer known for creating the Netflix limited series "Maniac" and the post-apocalyptic drama "Station Eleven."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patrick Somerville canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6333070 — 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 Somerville Context triple: [Maniac, creator, Patrick Somerville]
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A.
Mark McDermott
Mark McDermott is a person notable enough to be specifically distinguished from others sharing the McDermott surname.
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B.
Bill Carrigan
Bill Carrigan was an American Major League Baseball catcher and manager best known for leading the Boston Red Sox to multiple World Series championships in the 1910s.
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C.
Brian Fitzpatrick
Brian Fitzpatrick is an American Republican politician and former FBI agent who has served as a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania.
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D.
Dan Kavanagh
Dan Kavanagh is the crime-fiction pseudonym used by British novelist Julian Barnes for a series of detective novels.
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E.
Tony McNulty
Tony McNulty is a British Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament and held ministerial roles including Minister of State for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing.
- 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 Somerville Target entity description: Patrick Somerville is an American novelist and television writer-producer known for creating the Netflix limited series "Maniac" and the post-apocalyptic drama "Station Eleven."
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A.
Mark McDermott
Mark McDermott is a person notable enough to be specifically distinguished from others sharing the McDermott surname.
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B.
Bill Carrigan
Bill Carrigan was an American Major League Baseball catcher and manager best known for leading the Boston Red Sox to multiple World Series championships in the 1910s.
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C.
Brian Fitzpatrick
Brian Fitzpatrick is an American Republican politician and former FBI agent who has served as a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania.
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D.
Dan Kavanagh
Dan Kavanagh is the crime-fiction pseudonym used by British novelist Julian Barnes for a series of detective novels.
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E.
Tony McNulty
Tony McNulty is a British Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament and held ministerial roles including Minister of State for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novelist
ⓘ
person ⓘ television producer ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Station Eleven (TV series) – Station Eleven (novel) by Emily St. John Mandel
ⓘ
linked to:
Station Eleven
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| creatorOf |
Maniac (TV series)
ⓘ
linked to:
Maniac
Station Eleven (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
Station Eleven
|
| educatedAt |
Cornell University
ⓘ
University of Wisconsin–Madison ⓘ |
| employer |
HBO Max
ⓘ
Netflix ⓘ |
| genre |
dark comedy
ⓘ
drama ⓘ literary fiction ⓘ post-apocalyptic fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| hasWrittenForm |
novels
ⓘ
short stories ⓘ television scripts ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableAward |
Peabody Award for Station Eleven (part of creative team)
ⓘ
linked to:
Peabody Award
Writers Guild of America Award nomination (Station Eleven) ⓘ Writers Guild of America Award nomination (The Leftovers) ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Made for Love (TV series)
ⓘ
Maniac ⓘ Station Eleven ⓘ The Bridge (American TV series) ⓘ The Bright River ⓘ The Cradle ⓘ The Leftovers (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
The Leftovers
This Bright River ⓘ
linked to:
The Bright River
Trouble (short story collection) ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ showrunner ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| producerOf |
Made for Love (TV series)
ⓘ
Maniac (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
Maniac
Station Eleven (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
Station Eleven
|
| workLocation |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| writerOf |
Made for Love (TV series)
ⓘ
Maniac (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
Maniac
Station Eleven (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
Station Eleven
The Bridge (American TV series) ⓘ The Leftovers (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
The Leftovers
|
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 Somerville Description of subject: Patrick Somerville is an American novelist and television writer-producer known for creating the Netflix limited series "Maniac" and the post-apocalyptic drama "Station Eleven."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.