Patrick O’Hearn
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Patrick O’Hearn is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer best known for his atmospheric new-age and ambient music, as well as his work as a bassist with artists like Frank Zappa and Missing Persons.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patrick O'Hearn | 3 |
| Patrick O’Hearn canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10734222 — 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’Hearn Context triple: [Private Music, notableArtist, Patrick O’Hearn]
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A.
Dan O'Herlihy
Dan O'Herlihy was an Irish-born actor known for his distinguished character roles in film and television, including an Academy Award–nominated performance in "Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" and memorable parts in movies like "RoboCop" and "Halloween III: Season of the Witch."
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B.
Michael O’Rourke
Michael O’Rourke is best known as the father of the late child actress Heather O’Rourke, who starred in the "Poltergeist" film series.
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C.
Michael O’Rourke
Michael O’Rourke is an Irish media entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the international sports television network Setanta Sports.
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D.
Jim O’Doherty
Jim O’Doherty is an American television writer and producer known for creating and working on various youth-oriented comedy series.
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E.
Mark O’Connor
Mark O’Connor is an American violinist, composer, and fiddler renowned for blending classical, jazz, and American folk traditions, particularly in contemporary string music.
- 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’Hearn Target entity description: Patrick O’Hearn is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer best known for his atmospheric new-age and ambient music, as well as his work as a bassist with artists like Frank Zappa and Missing Persons.
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A.
Dan O'Herlihy
Dan O'Herlihy was an Irish-born actor known for his distinguished character roles in film and television, including an Academy Award–nominated performance in "Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" and memorable parts in movies like "RoboCop" and "Halloween III: Season of the Witch."
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B.
Michael O’Rourke
Michael O’Rourke is best known as the father of the late child actress Heather O’Rourke, who starred in the "Poltergeist" film series.
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C.
Michael O’Rourke
Michael O’Rourke is an Irish media entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the international sports television network Setanta Sports.
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D.
Jim O’Doherty
Jim O’Doherty is an American television writer and producer known for creating and working on various youth-oriented comedy series.
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E.
Mark O’Connor
Mark O’Connor is an American violinist, composer, and fiddler renowned for blending classical, jazz, and American folk traditions, particularly in contemporary string music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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human ⓘ multi-instrumentalist ⓘ musician ⓘ recording artist ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Dale Bozzio
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Frank Zappa ⓘ Group 87 ⓘ Missing Persons ⓘ Terry Bozzio ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
music production
ⓘ
soundtrack composition ⓘ |
| genre |
ambient music
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electronic music ⓘ new-age music ⓘ |
| hasRole |
film composer
ⓘ
television composer ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
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keyboards ⓘ percussion ⓘ synthesizer ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Frank Zappa’s band
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linked to:
The Mothers of Invention
Group 87 ⓘ Missing Persons ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
ambient soundscapes
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atmospheric new-age music ⓘ solo instrumental albums ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ancient Dreams
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Between Two Worlds ⓘ Indigo ⓘ Metaphor ⓘ Rivers Gonna Rise ⓘ Trust ⓘ |
| occupation |
bassist
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composer ⓘ multi-instrumentalist ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Patrick O’Hearn Music (independent releases)
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Private Music ⓘ Windham Hill Records ⓘ |
| style |
ambient sound design
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lush synthesizer textures ⓘ melodic bass lines ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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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’Hearn Description of subject: Patrick O’Hearn is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer best known for his atmospheric new-age and ambient music, as well as his work as a bassist with artists like Frank Zappa and Missing Persons.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Patrick O’Hearn
linked to: Patrick O’Hearn
subject linked to:
White Sands (1992 film)
linked to: Patrick O’Hearn