Mark Parkinson
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Mark Parkinson is an American politician who served as the 45th Governor of Kansas from 2009 to 2011.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mark Parkinson canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3981203 — 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: Mark Parkinson Context triple: [Kathleen Sebelius, successor (Governor of Kansas), Mark Parkinson]
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A.
Mark Bennett
Mark Bennett is a theatrical sound designer known for his work on major stage productions, including the Broadway trilogy "The Coast of Utopia."
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B.
Brian Pippard
Brian Pippard was a prominent British physicist known for his pioneering work in superconductivity and for serving as Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge.
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C.
Ken Parry
Ken Parry was a British character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in film and television from the 1960s through the 1980s.
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D.
Mark Stott
Mark Stott is a British businessman and property developer best known as the owner and chairman of Stockport County Football Club.
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E.
Ian Roberts
Ian Roberts is a South African actor best known for his roles in film, television, and stage productions, often portraying rugged or authoritative characters.
- 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: Mark Parkinson Target entity description: Mark Parkinson is an American politician who served as the 45th Governor of Kansas from 2009 to 2011.
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A.
Mark Bennett
Mark Bennett is a theatrical sound designer known for his work on major stage productions, including the Broadway trilogy "The Coast of Utopia."
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B.
Brian Pippard
Brian Pippard was a prominent British physicist known for his pioneering work in superconductivity and for serving as Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge.
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C.
Ken Parry
Ken Parry was a British character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in film and television from the 1960s through the 1980s.
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D.
Mark Stott
Mark Stott is a British businessman and property developer best known as the owner and chairman of Stockport County Football Club.
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E.
Ian Roberts
Ian Roberts is a South African actor best known for his roles in film, television, and stage productions, often portraying rugged or authoritative characters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
governor
ⓘ
human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
public administration
ⓘ
state politics ⓘ |
| givenName | Mark ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Democratic Party
ⓘ
Republican Party ⓘ |
| name | Mark Parkinson self-link ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Service as Governor of Kansas
ⓘ
Service as Lieutenant Governor of Kansas ⓘ |
| occupation | politician ⓘ |
| officeEndTime | 2011 ⓘ |
| officeEndTime (Lieutenant Governor of Kansas) | 2009 ⓘ |
| officeStartTime | 2009 ⓘ |
| officeStartTime (Lieutenant Governor of Kansas) | 2007 ⓘ |
| ordinalInOffice | 45th Governor of Kansas ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of Kansas
ⓘ
Lieutenant Governor of Kansas ⓘ |
| residence | Kansas ⓘ |
| stateRepresented | Kansas ⓘ |
| succeeded | Kathleen Sebelius ⓘ |
| wasSucceededBy | Sam Brownback ⓘ |
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: Mark Parkinson Description of subject: Mark Parkinson is an American politician who served as the 45th Governor of Kansas from 2009 to 2011.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.