Simon Patterson
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Simon Patterson is a British conceptual artist best known for his witty reworkings of maps and information systems, often linked to the Young British Artists movement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Simon Patterson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8213978 — 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: Simon Patterson Context triple: [Young British Artists, associatedPerson, Simon Patterson]
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A.
Russell Patterson
Russell Patterson is an American conductor best known for his leadership roles with major U.S. orchestras, including serving as music director of the Kansas City Symphony.
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B.
Michael Greenwood
Michael Greenwood is a member of the Greenwood family, known primarily as a son of British politician Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood.
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C.
Colin Wright
Colin Wright is known primarily as the son of acclaimed American college basketball coach Jay Wright.
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D.
P. J. Patterson
P. J. Patterson is a Jamaican politician who served as Prime Minister from 1992 to 2006 and is a prominent leader of the People's National Party.
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E.
David Hartnett
David Hartnett is a British civil servant best known for serving as the Permanent Secretary for Tax at HM Revenue and Customs, where he was the UK's top tax official.
- 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: Simon Patterson Target entity description: Simon Patterson is a British conceptual artist best known for his witty reworkings of maps and information systems, often linked to the Young British Artists movement.
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A.
Russell Patterson
Russell Patterson is an American conductor best known for his leadership roles with major U.S. orchestras, including serving as music director of the Kansas City Symphony.
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B.
Michael Greenwood
Michael Greenwood is a member of the Greenwood family, known primarily as a son of British politician Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood.
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C.
Colin Wright
Colin Wright is known primarily as the son of acclaimed American college basketball coach Jay Wright.
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D.
P. J. Patterson
P. J. Patterson is a Jamaican politician who served as Prime Minister from 1992 to 2006 and is a prominent leader of the People's National Party.
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E.
David Hartnett
David Hartnett is a British civil servant best known for serving as the Permanent Secretary for Tax at HM Revenue and Customs, where he was the UK's top tax official.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British artist
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conceptual artist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| artisticMovement | conceptual art ⓘ |
| artisticPractice |
appropriation of existing information systems
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humorous subversion of classification systems ⓘ relabeling and reordering of map elements ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Young British Artists ⓘ |
| basedIn | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| contemporaryWith |
Damien Hirst
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Tracey Emin ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
conceptual art
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contemporary art ⓘ |
| genre | conceptual art ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | Young British Artists ⓘ |
| name | Simon Patterson ⓘ |
| nationality | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| notableFor |
map-based artworks
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reworkings of information systems ⓘ witty reworkings of maps ⓘ |
| occupation |
artist
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conceptual artist ⓘ visual artist ⓘ |
| usesMedium |
information graphics
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installation art ⓘ maps ⓘ |
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: Simon Patterson Description of subject: Simon Patterson is a British conceptual artist best known for his witty reworkings of maps and information systems, often linked to the Young British Artists movement.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.