Patrick Flanagan
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Patrick Flanagan is an American inventor and author best known for his work on neurophone technology and fringe scientific and New Age concepts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Patrick Flanagan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3398719 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Patrick Flanagan Context triple: [Flanagan, hasNotableBearer, Patrick Flanagan]
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A.
Patrick Doherty
Patrick Doherty was one of the unarmed civil rights marchers shot and killed by British soldiers during the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1972.
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B.
John McSherry
John McSherry was a longtime Major League Baseball umpire known for his work in numerous postseason games and his sudden on-field death during a 1996 Opening Day game.
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C.
Kevin O'Connor
Kevin O'Connor is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of the online advertising company DoubleClick.
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D.
Kevin Tighe
Kevin Tighe is an American actor best known for his role as firefighter-paramedic Roy DeSoto on the television series "Emergency!" and for numerous character roles in film and television.
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E.
Brían F. O'Byrne
Brían F. O'Byrne is an Irish actor known for his acclaimed work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in projects such as "Mildred Pierce," "Brooklyn," and "Little Boy Blue."
- 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 Flanagan Target entity description: Patrick Flanagan is an American inventor and author best known for his work on neurophone technology and fringe scientific and New Age concepts.
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A.
Patrick Doherty
Patrick Doherty was one of the unarmed civil rights marchers shot and killed by British soldiers during the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1972.
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B.
John McSherry
John McSherry was a longtime Major League Baseball umpire known for his work in numerous postseason games and his sudden on-field death during a 1996 Opening Day game.
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C.
Kevin O'Connor
Kevin O'Connor is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of the online advertising company DoubleClick.
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D.
Kevin Tighe
Kevin Tighe is an American actor best known for his role as firefighter-paramedic Roy DeSoto on the television series "Emergency!" and for numerous character roles in film and television.
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E.
Brían F. O'Byrne
Brían F. O'Byrne is an Irish actor known for his acclaimed work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in projects such as "Mildred Pierce," "Brooklyn," and "Little Boy Blue."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New Age writer
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author ⓘ human ⓘ inventor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
New Age concepts
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fringe science ⓘ neurophone technology ⓘ |
| genre |
New Age literature
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popular science ⓘ |
| hasPublishedIn |
New Age magazines
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alternative science publications ⓘ |
| hasWrittenAbout |
alternative health
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electromagnetic fields ⓘ human consciousness ⓘ meditation ⓘ pyramid power ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
New Age spirituality
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fringe scientific theories ⓘ |
| knownFor |
developing the neurophone concept
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promoting New Age and fringe scientific ideas ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
New Age
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surface form:
New Age movement
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| notableIdea |
electronic telepathy via neurophone
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pyramid power ⓘ structured water ⓘ subtle energy ⓘ |
| notableWork | Neurophone ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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inventor ⓘ |
| positionHeld | lecturer on New Age topics ⓘ |
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 Flanagan Description of subject: Patrick Flanagan is an American inventor and author best known for his work on neurophone technology and fringe scientific and New Age concepts.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.