Patrick Duffy
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Patrick Duffy is an American actor best known for his role as Bobby Ewing on the long-running television series "Dallas."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patrick Duffy canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9392121 — 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 Duffy Context triple: [Jim Davis, workedWith, Patrick Duffy]
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A.
Greg Reeves
Greg Reeves is an American bass guitarist best known for playing with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, including on their landmark 1970 album "Déjà Vu."
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B.
Warren Foster
Warren Foster was an American animation writer best known for his influential work on classic Warner Bros. cartoons, including many featuring characters like Foghorn Leghorn.
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C.
William Katt
William Katt is an American actor best known for starring in the 1980s television series "The Greatest American Hero" and appearing in films such as "Carrie."
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D.
Paul Dooley
Paul Dooley is an American character actor, writer, and comedian known for his roles in films such as "Breaking Away," "Sixteen Candles," and numerous television series.
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E.
Jeffrey Donovan
Jeffrey Donovan is an American actor best known for starring as Michael Westen in the television series "Burn Notice" and appearing in films such as "Sicario" and its sequel.
- 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 Duffy Target entity description: Patrick Duffy is an American actor best known for his role as Bobby Ewing on the long-running television series "Dallas."
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A.
Greg Reeves
Greg Reeves is an American bass guitarist best known for playing with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, including on their landmark 1970 album "Déjà Vu."
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B.
Warren Foster
Warren Foster was an American animation writer best known for his influential work on classic Warner Bros. cartoons, including many featuring characters like Foghorn Leghorn.
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C.
William Katt
William Katt is an American actor best known for starring in the 1980s television series "The Greatest American Hero" and appearing in films such as "Carrie."
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D.
Paul Dooley
Paul Dooley is an American character actor, writer, and comedian known for his roles in films such as "Breaking Away," "Sixteen Candles," and numerous television series.
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E.
Jeffrey Donovan
Jeffrey Donovan is an American actor best known for starring as Michael Westen in the television series "Burn Notice" and appearing in films such as "Sicario" and its sequel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
director
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ producer ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| almaMater | University of Washington (training at Professional Actors Training Program) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Dallas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Family Guy NERFINISHED ⓘ Knots Landing NERFINISHED ⓘ Man from Atlantis NERFINISHED ⓘ Step by Step NERFINISHED ⓘ The Bold and the Beautiful NERFINISHED ⓘ Welcome to Sweden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Patrick George Duffy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed |
Bobby Ewing
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Frank Lambert NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephen Logan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1949-03-17 ⓘ |
| directed |
episodes of Dallas
ⓘ
episodes of Step by Step ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| genre |
television comedy
ⓘ
television drama ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Joanne Duffy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying Bobby Ewing on Dallas ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1974 ⓘ |
| name | Patrick Duffy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAward | TV Land Award (Dallas cast) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dallas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Man from Atlantis NERFINISHED ⓘ Step by Step NERFINISHED ⓘ The Bold and the Beautiful NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
television director ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Townsend, Montana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism ⓘ |
| spouse | Carlyn Rosser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1970s–present ⓘ |
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 Duffy Description of subject: Patrick Duffy is an American actor best known for his role as Bobby Ewing on the long-running television series "Dallas."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.