Patrick Auffay
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Patrick Auffay is a French actor best known for his role in François Truffaut’s classic film "The 400 Blows."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Patrick Auffay canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9846210 — 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 Auffay Context triple: [The 400 Blows, castMember, Patrick Auffay]
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A.
Patrick Degorce
Patrick Degorce is a French hedge fund manager and investor best known as the founder of Theleme Partners and previously a prominent figure at The Children’s Investment Fund (TCI).
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B.
Denis Defforey
Denis Defforey was a French businessman best known as one of the founding figures behind the multinational retail corporation Carrefour.
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C.
Patrick Baudry
Patrick Baudry is a French astronaut and test pilot who became one of the first French citizens to fly in space.
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D.
Ian La Frenais
Ian La Frenais is a British screenwriter best known for co-creating classic TV comedies such as "Porridge" and "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet," and for his long-time writing partnership with Dick Clement.
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E.
Paul Bonhomme
Paul Bonhomme is a British aerobatic and commercial pilot best known as one of the most successful competitors in the Red Bull Air Race World Championship.
- 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 Auffay Target entity description: Patrick Auffay is a French actor best known for his role in François Truffaut’s classic film "The 400 Blows."
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A.
Patrick Degorce
Patrick Degorce is a French hedge fund manager and investor best known as the founder of Theleme Partners and previously a prominent figure at The Children’s Investment Fund (TCI).
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B.
Denis Defforey
Denis Defforey was a French businessman best known as one of the founding figures behind the multinational retail corporation Carrefour.
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C.
Patrick Baudry
Patrick Baudry is a French astronaut and test pilot who became one of the first French citizens to fly in space.
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D.
Ian La Frenais
Ian La Frenais is a British screenwriter best known for co-creating classic TV comedies such as "Porridge" and "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet," and for his long-time writing partnership with Dick Clement.
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E.
Paul Bonhomme
Paul Bonhomme is a British aerobatic and commercial pilot best known as one of the most successful competitors in the Red Bull Air Race World Championship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ |
| actedIn | The 400 Blows ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| director | François Truffaut ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | French people ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | cinema ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
film ⓘ |
| knownFor | role in François Truffaut’s film "The 400 Blows" ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| nationality | France ⓘ |
| notableWork | The 400 Blows ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| workLocation | France ⓘ |
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 Auffay Description of subject: Patrick Auffay is a French actor best known for his role in François Truffaut’s classic film "The 400 Blows."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.