Patricia Broderick
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Patricia Broderick was an American playwright and painter best known as the mother of actor Matthew Broderick.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Patricia Broderick canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6558152 — 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 Broderick Context triple: [Matthew Broderick, parent, Patricia Broderick]
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A.
Rosemary Hoyt
Rosemary Hoyt is a young American film actress in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "Tender Is the Night," whose infatuation with Dick Diver catalyzes much of the story’s romantic and psychological tension.
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B.
Peggy Connelly
Peggy Connelly was an American jazz and pop singer known for her solo work in the 1950s and 1960s and for performing with prominent vocal groups and bandleaders.
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C.
Sara Plummer Lemmon
Sara Plummer Lemmon was a 19th-century American botanist and illustrator known for her extensive plant-collecting work in the American West and for helping to popularize and document the flora of Arizona and California.
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D.
Letitia McKean
Letitia McKean was a daughter of Thomas McKean, a prominent American Founding Father and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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E.
June Boatwright
June Boatwright is a strong-willed, emotionally guarded cellist and beekeeper who serves as one of the Boatwright sisters providing refuge and guidance in Sue Monk Kidd’s novel "The Secret Life of Bees."
- 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 Broderick Target entity description: Patricia Broderick was an American playwright and painter best known as the mother of actor Matthew Broderick.
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A.
Rosemary Hoyt
Rosemary Hoyt is a young American film actress in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "Tender Is the Night," whose infatuation with Dick Diver catalyzes much of the story’s romantic and psychological tension.
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B.
Peggy Connelly
Peggy Connelly was an American jazz and pop singer known for her solo work in the 1950s and 1960s and for performing with prominent vocal groups and bandleaders.
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C.
Sara Plummer Lemmon
Sara Plummer Lemmon was a 19th-century American botanist and illustrator known for her extensive plant-collecting work in the American West and for helping to popularize and document the flora of Arizona and California.
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D.
Letitia McKean
Letitia McKean was a daughter of Thomas McKean, a prominent American Founding Father and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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E.
June Boatwright
June Boatwright is a strong-willed, emotionally guarded cellist and beekeeper who serves as one of the Boatwright sisters providing refuge and guidance in Sue Monk Kidd’s novel "The Secret Life of Bees."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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painter ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| child | Matthew Broderick ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
television
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theatre ⓘ visual arts ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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television drama ⓘ |
| hasPartInTheCreativeWork |
American painting
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American television industry ⓘ American theatre ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| motherOf | Matthew Broderick ⓘ |
| notableRole | mother of actor Matthew Broderick ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Summer Switch
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Television scripts for "Family" ⓘ The Women of Lockerbie ⓘ |
| occupation |
painter
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playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | James Broderick ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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 Broderick Description of subject: Patricia Broderick was an American playwright and painter best known as the mother of actor Matthew Broderick.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.