Janet Patterson
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Janet Patterson was an acclaimed Australian costume and production designer known for her richly detailed period work on films such as "The Piano" and "Oscar and Lucinda."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Janet Patterson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T977151 — 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: Janet Patterson Context triple: [Oscar and Lucinda, costumeDesigner, Janet Patterson]
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A.
Janice Gordon
Janice Gordon is known as the first wife of American country music singer Kenny Rogers, whom he married before rising to fame.
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B.
Janet Healy
Janet Healy is a film producer known for her work on animated features, including the 2012 adaptation of Dr. Seuss's "The Lorax."
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C.
Janet Shearon
Janet Shearon was the first wife of astronaut Neil Armstrong, with whom she shared much of his early aviation and NASA career before their divorce.
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D.
Janice Wallace
Janice Wallace is known as one of the children of George Wallace, the former governor of Alabama and prominent figure in mid-20th-century American politics.
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E.
Diane Bemus Patrick
Diane Bemus Patrick is an American attorney and mental health advocate best known as the wife of former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick.
- 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: Janet Patterson Target entity description: Janet Patterson was an acclaimed Australian costume and production designer known for her richly detailed period work on films such as "The Piano" and "Oscar and Lucinda."
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A.
Janice Gordon
Janice Gordon is known as the first wife of American country music singer Kenny Rogers, whom he married before rising to fame.
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B.
Janet Healy
Janet Healy is a film producer known for her work on animated features, including the 2012 adaptation of Dr. Seuss's "The Lorax."
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C.
Janet Shearon
Janet Shearon was the first wife of astronaut Neil Armstrong, with whom she shared much of his early aviation and NASA career before their divorce.
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D.
Janice Wallace
Janice Wallace is known as one of the children of George Wallace, the former governor of Alabama and prominent figure in mid-20th-century American politics.
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E.
Diane Bemus Patrick
Diane Bemus Patrick is an American attorney and mental health advocate best known as the wife of former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
costume designer
ⓘ
film professional ⓘ production designer ⓘ |
| awardNominationForWork |
Academy Award for Best Costume Design
ⓘ
surface form:
Academy Award for Best Costume Design for Bright Star
Academy Award for Best Costume Design ⓘ
surface form:
Academy Award for Best Costume Design for Oscar and Lucinda
Academy Award for Best Costume Design ⓘ
surface form:
Academy Award for Best Costume Design for The Piano
Academy Award for Best Costume Design ⓘ
surface form:
Academy Award for Best Costume Design for The Portrait of a Lady
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| collaboratedWith | Jane Campion ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Australia ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film costume design
ⓘ
film production design ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| influencedDomain | contemporary period film design ⓘ |
| knownFor |
collaborations with director Jane Campion
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richly detailed period costume design ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| nationality | Australian ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Costume Design ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bright Star
ⓘ
Holy Smoke! ⓘ Oscar and Lucinda (novel) ⓘ
surface form:
Oscar and Lucinda
The Last Days of Chez Nous ⓘ The Piano ⓘ The Portrait of a Lady ⓘ The Railway Man ⓘ |
| occupation |
costume designer
ⓘ
production designer ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Australia
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United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| style |
historically researched costumes
ⓘ
period costume design ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Bright Star
ⓘ
Holy Smoke! ⓘ Oscar and Lucinda (novel) ⓘ
surface form:
Oscar and Lucinda
The Last Days of Chez Nous ⓘ The Piano ⓘ The Portrait of a Lady ⓘ The Railway Man ⓘ |
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: Janet Patterson Description of subject: Janet Patterson was an acclaimed Australian costume and production designer known for her richly detailed period work on films such as "The Piano" and "Oscar and Lucinda."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Oscar and Lucinda