Craig Patrick
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general manager
human
ice hockey coach
ice hockey executive
ice hockey player
member of the Hockey Hall of Fame
Craig Patrick is an American former ice hockey player, coach, and Hall of Fame general manager best known for his key roles with the "Miracle on Ice" 1980 U.S. Olympic team and the Pittsburgh Penguins' Stanley Cup championships.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Craig Patrick canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2020763 — 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: Craig Patrick Context triple: [1980 U.S. Olympic ice hockey team, assistantCoach, Craig Patrick]
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A.
Duncan Reid
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B.
Craig McKay
Craig McKay is an American film editor best known for his acclaimed work on major films such as "The Silence of the Lambs."
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C.
Ewen Bremner
Ewen Bremner is a Scottish character actor best known for his role as Spud in the "Trainspotting" films and numerous supporting performances in British and Hollywood cinema.
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D.
Stuart Kirwan
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E.
Brian Minchin
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- 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: Craig Patrick Target entity description: Craig Patrick is an American former ice hockey player, coach, and Hall of Fame general manager best known for his key roles with the "Miracle on Ice" 1980 U.S. Olympic team and the Pittsburgh Penguins' Stanley Cup championships.
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A.
Duncan Reid
Duncan Reid is a musician best known as the former bassist and vocalist for the UK punk band The Boys and for his solo work with Duncan Reid and the Big Heads.
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B.
Craig McKay
Craig McKay is an American film editor best known for his acclaimed work on major films such as "The Silence of the Lambs."
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C.
Ewen Bremner
Ewen Bremner is a Scottish character actor best known for his role as Spud in the "Trainspotting" films and numerous supporting performances in British and Hollywood cinema.
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D.
Stuart Kirwan
Stuart Kirwan is a musician best known as a member of the Australian rock band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, fronted by actor Russell Crowe.
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E.
Brian Minchin
Brian Minchin is a British television producer best known for his work as an executive producer on major BBC science fiction and drama series, including Doctor Who and Torchwood.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
general manager
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human ⓘ ice hockey coach ⓘ ice hockey executive ⓘ ice hockey player ⓘ member of the Hockey Hall of Fame ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Pittsburgh Penguins
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United States men's national ice hockey team ⓘ
surface form:
United States men’s national ice hockey team
|
| familyName | Patrick ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
professional ice hockey coaching
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professional ice hockey management ⓘ professional ice hockey playing ⓘ |
| fullName | Craig Patrick self-link ⓘ |
| givenName | Craig ⓘ |
| hallOfFameCategory | builder ⓘ |
| hallOfFameInduction | Hockey Hall of Fame ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Patrick family (ice hockey) ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| leaguePlayedIn | National Hockey League ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Pittsburgh Penguins ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
built Pittsburgh Penguins teams that won Stanley Cup championships
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key management role in the "Miracle on Ice" 1980 U.S. Olympic team ⓘ oversaw drafting and early NHL career of Jaromir Jagr with the Pittsburgh Penguins ⓘ served as general manager during Mario Lemieux era with the Pittsburgh Penguins ⓘ |
| notableWork |
assistant coach and assistant general manager of the 1980 U.S. Olympic ice hockey team
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general manager of the Pittsburgh Penguins ⓘ |
| occupation |
general manager
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ice hockey coach ⓘ ice hockey executive ⓘ ice hockey player ⓘ |
| participantIn |
1980 Winter Olympics
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surface form:
1980 Winter Olympics ice hockey tournament
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| positionPlayed | right wing ⓘ |
| relative |
Lester Patrick
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Lynn Patrick ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | ice hockey ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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surface form:
Pittsburgh
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
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: Craig Patrick Description of subject: Craig Patrick is an American former ice hockey player, coach, and Hall of Fame general manager best known for his key roles with the "Miracle on Ice" 1980 U.S. Olympic team and the Pittsburgh Penguins' Stanley Cup championships.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.