Pat Brown
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Pat Brown was a mid-20th-century Democratic politician who served as the 32nd governor of California and played a major role in expanding the state's infrastructure and higher education system.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pat Brown canonical | 4 |
| Edmund G. "Pat" Brown | 2 |
| Edmund G. Pat Brown | 2 |
| Edmund G. Brown Sr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T244905 — 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 Brown Context triple: [California Governor's Mansion, hasResidentGovernor, Pat Brown]
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A.
William Newsom
William Newsom was an American state appeals court judge and prominent San Francisco attorney known as the father of California Governor Gavin Newsom and for his long-standing connections to influential political and business circles.
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B.
Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown is an American Democratic politician who served multiple terms as governor of California and ran several times for the U.S. presidency.
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C.
Gray Davis
Gray Davis is an American Democratic politician who served as the 37th Governor of California from 1999 until his recall in 2003.
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D.
Hiram Johnson
Hiram Johnson was a prominent early 20th-century American progressive politician who served as governor of California and later as a long-tenured U.S. senator.
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E.
Hartland Snyder
Hartland Snyder was an American theoretical physicist known for his early work on black hole physics and for being one of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s notable doctoral students.
- 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 Brown Target entity description: Pat Brown was a mid-20th-century Democratic politician who served as the 32nd governor of California and played a major role in expanding the state's infrastructure and higher education system.
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A.
William Newsom
William Newsom was an American state appeals court judge and prominent San Francisco attorney known as the father of California Governor Gavin Newsom and for his long-standing connections to influential political and business circles.
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B.
Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown is an American Democratic politician who served multiple terms as governor of California and ran several times for the U.S. presidency.
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C.
Gray Davis
Gray Davis is an American Democratic politician who served as the 37th Governor of California from 1999 until his recall in 2003.
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D.
Hiram Johnson
Hiram Johnson was a prominent early 20th-century American progressive politician who served as governor of California and later as a long-tenured U.S. senator.
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E.
Hartland Snyder
Hartland Snyder was an American theoretical physicist known for his early work on black hole physics and for being one of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s notable doctoral students.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Governor of California
ⓘ
human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Brown ⓘ |
| fatherOf | Jerry Brown ⓘ |
| givenName | Edmund ⓘ |
| ideology | American liberalism ⓘ |
| Jerry Brown | also served as Governor of California ⓘ |
| knownFor |
expanding California's water infrastructure
ⓘ
expanding public higher education in California ⓘ modernizing California state government ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| nickname | Pat ⓘ |
| notableWork | development of the California Master Plan for Higher Education ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
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public servant ⓘ |
| officeEndTime | 1967-01-02 ⓘ |
| officeStartTime | 1959-01-05 ⓘ |
| playedMajorRoleIn |
expansion of California's higher education system
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expansion of California's infrastructure ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
32nd Governor of California
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Attorney General of California ⓘ District Attorney of San Francisco ⓘ |
| residence |
Sacramento
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surface form:
Sacramento, California
San Francisco ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco, California
|
| servedAsGovernorOf |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| supported |
freeways and transportation infrastructure in California
ⓘ
large-scale water projects in California ⓘ |
| timePeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Brown Description of subject: Pat Brown was a mid-20th-century Democratic politician who served as the 32nd governor of California and played a major role in expanding the state's infrastructure and higher education system.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Edmund G. Brown Sr.
this entity surface form:
Edmund G. "Pat" Brown
this entity surface form:
Edmund G. "Pat" Brown
subject surface form:
Gerald Jerry Brown
this entity surface form:
Edmund G. Pat Brown