Patinkin
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Patinkin is the surname of American actor and singer Mandy Patinkin, known for his work in film, television, and musical theatre.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patinkin canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11345543 — 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: Patinkin Context triple: [Mandy Patinkin, familyName, Patinkin]
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A.
Kinnear
Kinnear is an English surname most notably associated with the British actor Rory Kinnear and his theatrical family.
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B.
Narvin Kimball
Narvin Kimball was an American jazz banjoist and vocalist from New Orleans, best known for his work in traditional jazz and his long association with the Preservation Hall scene.
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C.
Indiana Hawke
Indiana Hawke is the daughter of American actor, writer, and director Ethan Hawke.
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D.
Guy Tawney
Guy Tawney is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Tawney.
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E.
Minnelli
Minnelli is a distinguished Italian-American show business family name most famously associated with entertainer Liza Minnelli and film director Vincente Minnelli.
- 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: Patinkin Target entity description: Patinkin is the surname of American actor and singer Mandy Patinkin, known for his work in film, television, and musical theatre.
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A.
Kinnear
Kinnear is an English surname most notably associated with the British actor Rory Kinnear and his theatrical family.
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B.
Narvin Kimball
Narvin Kimball was an American jazz banjoist and vocalist from New Orleans, best known for his work in traditional jazz and his long association with the Preservation Hall scene.
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C.
Indiana Hawke
Indiana Hawke is the daughter of American actor, writer, and director Ethan Hawke.
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D.
Guy Tawney
Guy Tawney is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Tawney.
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E.
Minnelli
Minnelli is a distinguished Italian-American show business family name most famously associated with entertainer Liza Minnelli and film director Vincente Minnelli.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
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American singer ⓘ family name ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ surname ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical ⓘ |
| birthName | Mandel Bruce Patinkin ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1952-11-30 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish Americans ⓘ |
| familyName |
Patinkin
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Patinkin ⓘ Patinkin ⓘ |
| genre | musical theatre ⓘ |
| givenName |
Mandel
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Mandy ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Gideon Patinkin
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Isaac Patinkin ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
Hebrew
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Yiddish ⓘ |
| name | Mandy Patinkin ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Chicago Hope
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Evita ⓘ Homeland ⓘ Sunday in the Park with George ⓘ The Princess Bride ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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actress ⓘ singer ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| spouse | Kathryn Grody ⓘ |
| usedBy | Mandy Patinkin ⓘ |
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: Patinkin Description of subject: Patinkin is the surname of American actor and singer Mandy Patinkin, known for his work in film, television, and musical theatre.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.