Patch
E175801
Patch is a surname most notably associated with Alexander Patch, a senior U.S. Army general who played a key role in World War II operations in Europe.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patch canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1550122 — 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: Patch Context triple: [Alexander Patch, familyName, Patch]
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A.
Quick Change
Quick Change is a 1990 crime-comedy film co-directed by and starring Bill Murray as a mastermind bank robber whose escape from New York City goes increasingly awry.
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B.
MOD
MOD is the commonly used abbreviation for the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence, the government department responsible for implementing defense policy and overseeing the armed forces.
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C.
Changes
"Changes" is a track featured on the hip hop album *Universal Mind Control* by Common.
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D.
Changes
"Changes" is a socially conscious hip-hop song by Tupac Shakur that reflects on racism, poverty, and systemic injustice in America.
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E.
Hook
Hook is a village in Hampshire, England, known as a commuter settlement with good transport links to nearby towns and London.
- 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: Patch Target entity description: Patch is a surname most notably associated with Alexander Patch, a senior U.S. Army general who played a key role in World War II operations in Europe.
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A.
Quick Change
Quick Change is a 1990 crime-comedy film co-directed by and starring Bill Murray as a mastermind bank robber whose escape from New York City goes increasingly awry.
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B.
MOD
MOD is the commonly used abbreviation for the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence, the government department responsible for implementing defense policy and overseeing the armed forces.
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C.
Changes
"Changes" is a socially conscious hip-hop song by Tupac Shakur that reflects on racism, poverty, and systemic injustice in America.
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D.
Changes
"Changes" is a track featured on the hip hop album *Universal Mind Control* by Common.
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E.
Hook
Hook is a village in Hampshire, England, known as a commuter settlement with good transport links to nearby towns and London.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Army general
ⓘ
family name ⓘ human ⓘ military officer ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| allegiance |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| awardReceived |
Army Distinguished Service Medal
ⓘ
Distinguished Service Cross ⓘ Legion of Merit ⓘ Purple Heart ⓘ Silver Star ⓘ |
| conflict |
World War I
ⓘ
World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
ground warfare
ⓘ
military strategy ⓘ |
| genre | land warfare leadership ⓘ |
| givenName | Alexander ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Patch self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Alexander Patch ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Lieutenant General ⓘ |
| notableCommand |
U.S. Seventh Army
ⓘ
surface form:
Seventh United States Army
XIV Corps ⓘ U.S. XV Corps ⓘ
surface form:
XV Corps
|
| notableFor |
command of the U.S. Seventh Army
ⓘ
command of the U.S. XIV Corps in the Pacific ⓘ commanding U.S. Army forces in the European Theater during World War II ⓘ |
| occupation | career army officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Operation Dragoon
ⓘ
surface form:
Allied invasion of Southern France
Battle of Guadalcanal ⓘ
surface form:
Guadalcanal Campaign
Operation Dragoon ⓘ |
| partOf |
Allied forces in the Second World War
ⓘ
surface form:
Allied forces in World War II
|
| positionHeld |
commander of Seventh United States Army
ⓘ
commander of XIV Corps ⓘ commander of XV Corps ⓘ |
| theaterOfOperations |
European Theater of Operations, United States Army
ⓘ
surface form:
European Theater of Operations
Pacific Theater of Operations ⓘ |
| usedAs | last name ⓘ |
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: Patch Description of subject: Patch is a surname most notably associated with Alexander Patch, a senior U.S. Army general who played a key role in World War II operations in Europe.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Alexander Patch
subject surface form:
Alexander McCarrell Patch