Tom Patey
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Tom Patey was a renowned Scottish climber, mountaineer, and humorist known for pioneering hard sea-cliff and mountain routes in the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom Patey canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3452508 — 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: Tom Patey Context triple: [Old Man of Hoy, firstAscentBy, Tom Patey]
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A.
Tim Pugh
Tim Pugh is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played primarily for the Cincinnati Reds in the early 1990s.
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B.
Tony Fitzpatrick
Tony Fitzpatrick is a former Scottish footballer and manager best known for his long association with St Mirren, where he became a club legend as a player and later served as manager and chief executive.
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C.
Tom Bateman
Tom Bateman is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including prominent roles in period dramas and crime mysteries.
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D.
Michael Potts
Michael Potts is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in projects like "The Wire," "True Detective," and various Broadway productions.
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E.
Tim Haines
Tim Haines is a British television producer and director best known for creating groundbreaking prehistoric and natural history series that blend documentary storytelling with cutting-edge visual effects.
- 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: Tom Patey Target entity description: Tom Patey was a renowned Scottish climber, mountaineer, and humorist known for pioneering hard sea-cliff and mountain routes in the mid-20th century.
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A.
Tim Pugh
Tim Pugh is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played primarily for the Cincinnati Reds in the early 1990s.
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B.
Tony Fitzpatrick
Tony Fitzpatrick is a former Scottish footballer and manager best known for his long association with St Mirren, where he became a club legend as a player and later served as manager and chief executive.
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C.
Tom Bateman
Tom Bateman is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including prominent roles in period dramas and crime mysteries.
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D.
Michael Potts
Michael Potts is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in projects like "The Wire," "True Detective," and various Broadway productions.
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E.
Tim Haines
Tim Haines is a British television producer and director best known for creating groundbreaking prehistoric and natural history series that blend documentary storytelling with cutting-edge visual effects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish person
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human ⓘ humorist ⓘ mountaineer ⓘ rock climber ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Patey ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Scottish mountaineering
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alpine climbing ⓘ sea-cliff climbing ⓘ |
| genre |
humorous writing
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mountaineering literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Tom ⓘ |
| hasNotableAttribute |
pioneer of difficult routes
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renowned Scottish climber ⓘ witty climbing writer ⓘ |
| knownFor |
humorous mountaineering writing
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pioneering hard mountain routes ⓘ pioneering hard sea-cliff routes ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Tom Patey self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
first ascents on Scottish mountain crags
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first ascents on Scottish sea cliffs ⓘ |
| notableWork | One Man’s Mountains ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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climber ⓘ general practitioner ⓘ humorist ⓘ mountaineer ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Scotland
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Scottish Highlands ⓘ Scottish sea cliffs ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport |
alpinism
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climbing ⓘ |
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: Tom Patey Description of subject: Tom Patey was a renowned Scottish climber, mountaineer, and humorist known for pioneering hard sea-cliff and mountain routes in the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Muztagh Tower