Harry Patterson
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Harry Patterson, better known by his pen name Jack Higgins, was a British author famed for his bestselling thriller novels, including "The Eagle Has Landed."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Harry Patterson canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3794140 — 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: Harry Patterson Context triple: [Jack Higgins, alsoKnownAs, Harry Patterson]
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A.
Neal Patterson
Neal Patterson was an American businessman best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of the health information technology company Cerner Corporation.
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B.
Denis Barnett
Denis Barnett was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to high command during and after the Second World War.
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C.
John Brophy
John Brophy was an influential American labor leader and union organizer who played a key role in the early development of industrial unionism in the United States.
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D.
Ray Merrimen
Ray Merrimen is a disciplined, battle-hardened ex-Marine and mastermind leader of a crew of professional bank robbers in the crime film "Den of Thieves."
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E.
Roy McFarland
Roy McFarland is a former English central defender best known for his key role in Derby County’s successful teams of the late 1960s and 1970s and for earning numerous caps for the England national team.
- 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: Harry Patterson Target entity description: Harry Patterson, better known by his pen name Jack Higgins, was a British author famed for his bestselling thriller novels, including "The Eagle Has Landed."
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A.
Neal Patterson
Neal Patterson was an American businessman best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of the health information technology company Cerner Corporation.
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B.
Denis Barnett
Denis Barnett was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to high command during and after the Second World War.
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C.
John Brophy
John Brophy was an influential American labor leader and union organizer who played a key role in the early development of industrial unionism in the United States.
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D.
Ray Merrimen
Ray Merrimen is a disciplined, battle-hardened ex-Marine and mastermind leader of a crew of professional bank robbers in the crime film "Den of Thieves."
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E.
Roy McFarland
Roy McFarland is a former English central defender best known for his key role in Derby County’s successful teams of the late 1960s and 1970s and for earning numerous caps for the England national team.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Harry Patterson Description of subject: Harry Patterson, better known by his pen name Jack Higgins, was a British author famed for his bestselling thriller novels, including "The Eagle Has Landed."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.