Pat Quinn
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Pat Quinn is an American Democratic politician who served as the 41st governor of Illinois from 2009 to 2015.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pat Quinn canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13421718 — 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: Pat Quinn Context triple: [Bruce Rauner, replaced, Pat Quinn]
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A.
Pat Quinn
Pat Quinn was a highly respected Canadian NHL coach and executive known for leading multiple teams to deep playoff runs and coaching Team Canada to international success.
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B.
Dennis Casey
Dennis Casey is an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of the wildlife park and drive-through animal attraction Bear Country USA in South Dakota.
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C.
Mark McGann
Mark McGann is an English actor and director known for his work in television, film, and theatre, and as one of the four acting McGann brothers.
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D.
Patrick Eagan
Patrick Eagan was an early Irish immigrant settler and local political figure after whom the city of Eagan, Minnesota, is named.
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E.
Michael Hogan
Michael Hogan was a screenwriter known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including contributing to the script of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 adaptation of "Rebecca."
- 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: Pat Quinn Target entity description: Pat Quinn is an American Democratic politician who served as the 41st governor of Illinois from 2009 to 2015.
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A.
Pat Quinn
Pat Quinn was a highly respected Canadian NHL coach and executive known for leading multiple teams to deep playoff runs and coaching Team Canada to international success.
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B.
Dennis Casey
Dennis Casey is an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of the wildlife park and drive-through animal attraction Bear Country USA in South Dakota.
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C.
Mark McGann
Mark McGann is an English actor and director known for his work in television, film, and theatre, and as one of the four acting McGann brothers.
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D.
Patrick Eagan
Patrick Eagan was an early Irish immigrant settler and local political figure after whom the city of Eagan, Minnesota, is named.
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E.
Michael Hogan
Michael Hogan was a screenwriter known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including contributing to the script of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 adaptation of "Rebecca."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
governor
ⓘ
human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Chicago
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Georgetown University
ⓘ
Northwestern University ⓘ |
| election |
2010 Illinois gubernatorial election
ⓘ
2014 Illinois gubernatorial election ⓘ |
| electionOutcome |
lost 2014 Illinois gubernatorial election
ⓘ
won 2010 Illinois gubernatorial election ⓘ |
| endTime | 2015-01-12 ⓘ |
| familyName | Quinn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | law ⓘ |
| givenName | Patrick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction | State of Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Democratic Party
ⓘ
surface form:
Democratic Party (United States)
|
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
ethics reform in Illinois government
ⓘ
signing abolition of death penalty in Illinois ⓘ support for same-sex marriage legislation in Illinois ⓘ |
| occupation | politician ⓘ |
| officeEndForGovernorOfIllinois | 2015 ⓘ |
| officeEndForLieutenantGovernorOfIllinois | 2009 ⓘ |
| officeEndForTreasurerOfIllinois | 1995 ⓘ |
| officeStartForGovernorOfIllinois | 2009 ⓘ |
| officeStartForLieutenantGovernorOfIllinois | 2003 ⓘ |
| officeStartForTreasurerOfIllinois | 1991 ⓘ |
| ordinalInOffice | 41st Governor of Illinois ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Treasurer of Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Bruce Rauner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedUnder | Rod Blagojevich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| significantEvent | assumed governorship after impeachment of Rod Blagojevich ⓘ |
| startTime | 2009-01-29 ⓘ |
| succeeded | Rod Blagojevich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Chicago, Illinois
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Springfield, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Pat Quinn Description of subject: Pat Quinn is an American Democratic politician who served as the 41st governor of Illinois from 2009 to 2015.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.