John Patee
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John Patee was a 19th-century American entrepreneur and hotelier best known for establishing the historic Patee House in St. Joseph, Missouri.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Patee canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11210020 — 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: John Patee Context triple: [Patee House Museum, namedAfter, John Patee]
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A.
James Ewing
James Ewing was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from Pennsylvania who served as a militia general and later as the state's vice president (lieutenant governor).
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B.
James Ewing
James Ewing was a pioneering American pathologist and oncologist whose work helped establish cancer research and treatment as a distinct medical discipline.
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C.
Pierpont Edwards
Pierpont Edwards was an American lawyer, politician, and federal judge from Connecticut who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress and became the first U.S. District Judge for the District of Connecticut.
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D.
Gilbert Redman
Gilbert Redman is the witty, resourceful young musicologist who becomes the male lead and key ally to Iris Henderson in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller "The Lady Vanishes."
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E.
Hoyt Wilhelm
Hoyt Wilhelm was a pioneering Major League Baseball relief pitcher renowned for his knuckleball and longevity, becoming one of the first relievers elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
- 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: John Patee Target entity description: John Patee was a 19th-century American entrepreneur and hotelier best known for establishing the historic Patee House in St. Joseph, Missouri.
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A.
James Ewing
James Ewing was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from Pennsylvania who served as a militia general and later as the state's vice president (lieutenant governor).
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B.
James Ewing
James Ewing was a pioneering American pathologist and oncologist whose work helped establish cancer research and treatment as a distinct medical discipline.
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C.
Pierpont Edwards
Pierpont Edwards was an American lawyer, politician, and federal judge from Connecticut who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress and became the first U.S. District Judge for the District of Connecticut.
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D.
Gilbert Redman
Gilbert Redman is the witty, resourceful young musicologist who becomes the male lead and key ally to Iris Henderson in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller "The Lady Vanishes."
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E.
Hoyt Wilhelm
Hoyt Wilhelm was a pioneering Major League Baseball relief pitcher renowned for his knuckleball and longevity, becoming one of the first relievers elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrepreneur
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hotel ⓘ hotelier ⓘ person ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
business
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hospitality industry ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | American ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | historic building ⓘ |
| inception | 19th century ⓘ |
| knownFor | Patee House ⓘ |
| location | St. Joseph, Missouri ⓘ |
| namedAfter | John Patee ⓘ |
| notableWork | Patee House ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
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hotelier ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | St. Joseph, Missouri ⓘ |
| residence | St. Joseph, Missouri ⓘ |
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: John Patee Description of subject: John Patee was a 19th-century American entrepreneur and hotelier best known for establishing the historic Patee House in St. Joseph, Missouri.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
John Patee