Patrick Tobin
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Patrick Tobin is an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the 2014 drama film "Cake" starring Jennifer Aniston.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Patrick Tobin canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10682390 — 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 Tobin Context triple: [Cake (2014 film), screenwriter, Patrick Tobin]
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A.
Sean Tuohy
Sean Tuohy is an American former college basketball player, sports commentator, and businessman best known as the adoptive father of NFL player Michael Oher, whose story inspired the book and film "The Blind Side."
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B.
Anthony O’Donnell
Anthony O’Donnell is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including a role in the Mike Leigh production "Nuts in May."
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C.
John Doherty
John Doherty is known as the husband of American actress Michael Learned, famed for her role as Olivia Walton on the television series "The Waltons."
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D.
Michael McCusker
Michael McCusker is an American film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the thriller "The Girl on the Train" (2016).
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E.
George Tobin
George Tobin is an American record producer best known for his work in the 1980s and 1990s with pop artists such as Tiffany.
- 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 Tobin Target entity description: Patrick Tobin is an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the 2014 drama film "Cake" starring Jennifer Aniston.
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A.
Sean Tuohy
Sean Tuohy is an American former college basketball player, sports commentator, and businessman best known as the adoptive father of NFL player Michael Oher, whose story inspired the book and film "The Blind Side."
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B.
Anthony O’Donnell
Anthony O’Donnell is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including a role in the Mike Leigh production "Nuts in May."
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C.
John Doherty
John Doherty is known as the husband of American actress Michael Learned, famed for her role as Olivia Walton on the television series "The Waltons."
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D.
Michael McCusker
Michael McCusker is an American film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the thriller "The Girl on the Train" (2016).
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E.
George Tobin
George Tobin is an American record producer best known for his work in the 1980s and 1990s with pop artists such as Tiffany.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American screenwriter
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drama film ⓘ film ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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English ⓘ |
| notableFor | writing the screenplay for the 2014 film "Cake" ⓘ |
| notableWork | Cake ⓘ |
| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2014 ⓘ |
| starring | Jennifer Aniston ⓘ |
| wroteScreenplayFor | Cake ⓘ |
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 Tobin Description of subject: Patrick Tobin is an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the 2014 drama film "Cake" starring Jennifer Aniston.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Cake
subject linked to:
Claire Bennett – Jennifer Aniston
subject linked to:
Claire Bennett