Patrick Soon-Shiong
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Patrick Soon-Shiong is a South African-born American surgeon, biotech entrepreneur, and billionaire known for developing the cancer drug Abraxane and owning major media and healthcare enterprises.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patrick Soon-Shiong canonical | 2 |
| Nico Soon-Shiong | 1 |
| Soon-Shiong | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2525405 — 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 Soon-Shiong Context triple: [Los Angeles Times, owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong]
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A.
Joseph C. Tsai
Joseph C. Tsai is a Taiwanese-Canadian billionaire businessman, co-founder and executive vice chairman of Alibaba Group, and principal owner of the Brooklyn Nets NBA franchise.
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B.
Morris Chang
Morris Chang is a Taiwanese-American engineer and entrepreneur best known as the founder and longtime leader of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), a pioneering and globally dominant semiconductor foundry.
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C.
T.H. Chan
T.H. Chan was a Hong Kong real estate developer and philanthropist whose family’s major donation led to Harvard’s public health school bearing his name.
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D.
Eric S. Yuan
Eric S. Yuan is a Chinese-American entrepreneur best known as the founder and CEO of Zoom Video Communications, a leading video conferencing platform.
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E.
Kenneth Hsu
Kenneth Hsu is a Swiss geologist and oceanographer known for his influential work on marine geology and the Messinian salinity crisis.
- 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 Soon-Shiong Target entity description: Patrick Soon-Shiong is a South African-born American surgeon, biotech entrepreneur, and billionaire known for developing the cancer drug Abraxane and owning major media and healthcare enterprises.
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A.
Joseph C. Tsai
Joseph C. Tsai is a Taiwanese-Canadian billionaire businessman, co-founder and executive vice chairman of Alibaba Group, and principal owner of the Brooklyn Nets NBA franchise.
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B.
Morris Chang
Morris Chang is a Taiwanese-American engineer and entrepreneur best known as the founder and longtime leader of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), a pioneering and globally dominant semiconductor foundry.
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C.
T.H. Chan
T.H. Chan was a Hong Kong real estate developer and philanthropist whose family’s major donation led to Harvard’s public health school bearing his name.
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D.
Eric S. Yuan
Eric S. Yuan is a Chinese-American entrepreneur best known as the founder and CEO of Zoom Video Communications, a leading video conferencing platform.
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E.
Kenneth Hsu
Kenneth Hsu is a Swiss geologist and oceanographer known for his influential work on marine geology and the Messinian salinity crisis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
billionaire
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biotechnology entrepreneur ⓘ businessperson ⓘ human ⓘ media proprietor ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ surgeon ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1952-07-29 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Port Elizabeth
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surface form:
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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| countryOfCitizenship |
South Africa
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United States of America ⓘ |
| developerOf | Abraxane ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of British Columbia
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University of California, Los Angeles ⓘ University of the Witwatersrand ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Chinese South African ⓘ |
| familyName |
Patrick Soon-Shiong
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Soon-Shiong
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| fieldOfWork |
biotechnology
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oncology ⓘ pharmaceutical industry ⓘ surgery ⓘ |
| founded |
Abraxis BioScience
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Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation ⓘ NantHealth ⓘ NantKwest ⓘ NantWorks ⓘ |
| fullName | Patrick Soon-Shiong self-link ⓘ |
| givenName | Patrick ⓘ |
| hasAcademicPost | faculty member at University of California, Los Angeles (past) ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Patrick Soon-Shiong
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Nico Soon-Shiong
two daughters (name not specified) ⓘ |
| knownFor |
developing Abraxane
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healthcare innovation ⓘ media ownership ⓘ |
| medicalSpecialty |
oncologic surgery
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transplant surgery ⓘ |
| memberOf | American College of Surgeons ⓘ |
| netWorth | several billion US dollars ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | sale of Abraxis BioScience to Celgene ⓘ |
| notableWork | development of the cancer drug Abraxane ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
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entrepreneur ⓘ investor ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ surgeon ⓘ |
| ownerOf |
Los Angeles Times
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The San Diego Union ⓘ
surface form:
The San Diego Union-Tribune
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| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| spouse | Michele B. Chan ⓘ |
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 Soon-Shiong Description of subject: Patrick Soon-Shiong is a South African-born American surgeon, biotech entrepreneur, and billionaire known for developing the cancer drug Abraxane and owning major media and healthcare enterprises.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Soon-Shiong
this entity surface form:
Nico Soon-Shiong