Patricia Shields
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Patricia Shields is an American scholar known for her contributions to public administration, research methodology, and the philosophy of pragmatism.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Patricia Shields canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8177315 — 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 Shields Context triple: [Shields, hasNotableBearer, Patricia Shields]
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A.
Patricia Strawn
Patricia Strawn is known as the wife of American film producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr., a prominent figure in the Hollywood film industry.
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B.
Patricia McGuire
Patricia McGuire is best known as the wife of Hall of Fame college basketball coach and broadcaster Al McGuire.
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C.
Patricia McGuire
Patricia McGuire is an American higher education leader best known as the longtime president of Trinity Washington University and an advocate for women’s education and social justice.
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D.
Patricia Wallace
Patricia Wallace is known as the wife of the late American broadcast journalist Mike Wallace, a longtime correspondent for CBS's "60 Minutes."
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E.
Virginia Weidler
Virginia Weidler was an American child actress of the 1930s and 1940s, best remembered for her witty supporting roles in classic Hollywood films such as "The Philadelphia Story."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Patricia Shields Target entity description: Patricia Shields is an American scholar known for her contributions to public administration, research methodology, and the philosophy of pragmatism.
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A.
Patricia Strawn
Patricia Strawn is known as the wife of American film producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr., a prominent figure in the Hollywood film industry.
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B.
Patricia McGuire
Patricia McGuire is best known as the wife of Hall of Fame college basketball coach and broadcaster Al McGuire.
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C.
Patricia McGuire
Patricia McGuire is an American higher education leader best known as the longtime president of Trinity Washington University and an advocate for women’s education and social justice.
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D.
Patricia Wallace
Patricia Wallace is known as the wife of the late American broadcast journalist Mike Wallace, a longtime correspondent for CBS's "60 Minutes."
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E.
Virginia Weidler
Virginia Weidler was an American child actress of the 1930s and 1940s, best remembered for her witty supporting roles in classic Hollywood films such as "The Philadelphia Story."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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scholar ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | political science ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Northern Illinois University
NERFINISHED
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University of Missouri–Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Texas State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
feminist theory
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military studies ⓘ philosophy of pragmatism ⓘ public administration ⓘ public policy ⓘ research methodology ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasAcademicApproach | pragmatism ⓘ |
| hasConcept | application of the community of inquiry to public administration ⓘ |
| hasResearchInterest |
civil–military relations
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ethics in public administration ⓘ feminist pragmatism ⓘ public administration theory ⓘ research design ⓘ |
| hasWritten |
articles on civil–military relations
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articles on military privatization ⓘ articles on pragmatism and public administration ⓘ articles on research methods in public administration ⓘ works on Jane Addams as a pragmatist ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Jane Addams
NERFINISHED
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John Dewey NERFINISHED ⓘ classical American pragmatism ⓘ |
| knownFor |
applying pragmatism to public administration
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research on military privatization and civil–military relations ⓘ scholarship on Jane Addams and pragmatism ⓘ work on research methodology in public administration ⓘ work on the concept of the community of inquiry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableWork |
research on research methodology in public administration
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scholarship on pragmatism in public administration ⓘ studies of military privatization and civil–military relations ⓘ |
| occupation |
editor
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professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
editor-in-chief of Armed Forces & Society
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graduate director in the Department of Political Science at Texas State University ⓘ professor of political science at Texas State University ⓘ |
| workLocation | San Marcos, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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Instruction
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