Patricia McPherson
E691260
Patricia McPherson is the wife of Pulitzer Prize–winning Civil War historian James M. McPherson.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patricia McPherson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5303091 — 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 McPherson Context triple: [James M. McPherson, spouse, Patricia McPherson]
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A.
Patricia Conolly
Patricia Conolly is an Australian-born stage actress known for her extensive work on Broadway and in major theatre productions internationally.
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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 Gaul
Patricia Gaul is an American character actress known for her supporting roles in films such as "The Big Chill," "Silverado," and "Road Trip."
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D.
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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E.
Patricia O’Callaghan
Patricia O’Callaghan is a Canadian soprano and cabaret-style singer known for her interpretations of Leonard Cohen’s songs and eclectic repertoire spanning classical, pop, and chanson.
- 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 McPherson Target entity description: Patricia McPherson is the wife of Pulitzer Prize–winning Civil War historian James M. McPherson.
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A.
Patricia Conolly
Patricia Conolly is an Australian-born stage actress known for her extensive work on Broadway and in major theatre productions internationally.
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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 Gaul
Patricia Gaul is an American character actress known for her supporting roles in films such as "The Big Chill," "Silverado," and "Road Trip."
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D.
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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E.
Patricia O’Callaghan
Patricia O’Callaghan is a Canadian soprano and cabaret-style singer known for her interpretations of Leonard Cohen’s songs and eclectic repertoire spanning classical, pop, and chanson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Pulitzer Prize ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | American Civil War history ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Civil War historian James M. McPherson ⓘ |
| occupation | historian ⓘ |
| spouse |
James M. McPherson
ⓘ
Patricia McPherson ⓘ |
| spouseOfPulitzerPrizeWinner | James M. McPherson ⓘ |
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 McPherson Description of subject: Patricia McPherson is the wife of Pulitzer Prize–winning Civil War historian James M. McPherson.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Patricia McPherson