Patrick O'Brien
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Patrick O'Brien is best known as the father of American actor Dylan O'Brien.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patrick O'Brien canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10708382 — 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 O'Brien Context triple: [Dylan O'Brien, parent, Patrick O'Brien]
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A.
Patrick O'Brien Demsey
Patrick O'Brien Demsey is an American actor best known for playing Olympic hockey captain Mike Eruzione in the 2004 film "Miracle."
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B.
Patrick O’Brien
Patrick O’Brien is a film producer best known for his work on the 2014 action movie adaptation of the "Need for Speed" video game series.
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C.
Patrick Thomas O'Brien
Patrick Thomas O'Brien is an American character actor known for his supporting roles in film and television, including a part in the 1993 comedy "Airborne."
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D.
Richard Hull
Richard Hull was an 18th-century English architect best known for designing and constructing Leith Hill Tower in Surrey.
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E.
Robert Shaw Oliver
Robert Shaw Oliver was an American military officer and government official who served in senior leadership roles in the U.S. War Department in the early 20th century.
- 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 O'Brien Target entity description: Patrick O'Brien is best known as the father of American actor Dylan O'Brien.
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A.
Patrick O'Brien Demsey
Patrick O'Brien Demsey is an American actor best known for playing Olympic hockey captain Mike Eruzione in the 2004 film "Miracle."
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B.
Patrick O’Brien
Patrick O’Brien is a film producer best known for his work on the 2014 action movie adaptation of the "Need for Speed" video game series.
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C.
Patrick Thomas O'Brien
Patrick Thomas O'Brien is an American character actor known for his supporting roles in film and television, including a part in the 1993 comedy "Airborne."
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D.
Richard Hull
Richard Hull was an 18th-century English architect best known for designing and constructing Leith Hill Tower in Surrey.
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E.
Robert Shaw Oliver
Robert Shaw Oliver was an American military officer and government official who served in senior leadership roles in the U.S. War Department in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (6)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| child | Dylan O'Brien ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| father | Patrick O'Brien ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the father of American actor Dylan O'Brien ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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 O'Brien Description of subject: Patrick O'Brien is best known as the father of American actor Dylan O'Brien.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Patrick O'Brien