Patrick Wilson
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Patrick Wilson is an American musician best known as the longtime drummer for the rock band Weezer.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patrick Wilson canonical | 20 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3972901 — 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: Patrick Wilson Context triple: [Weezer Blue Album, drummer, Patrick Wilson]
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A.
Patrick Wilson
Patrick Wilson is an American actor known for his roles in major horror franchises like The Conjuring and Insidious, as well as superhero and blockbuster films.
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B.
Brad Fuller
Brad Fuller is a film editor known for his work on the documentary "He Named Me Malala."
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C.
Brad Fuller
Brad Fuller is an American film and television producer best known for co-founding Platinum Dunes and producing numerous horror franchises, including remakes of classic slasher films and projects like The Purge.
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D.
Ryan Joseph Wilson
Ryan Joseph Wilson is the birth name of Ryan Giggs, the celebrated Welsh former professional footballer and long-serving Manchester United winger and coach.
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E.
Matthew Fox
Matthew Fox is an American actor best known for his leading role as Jack Shephard on the television series "Lost" and for appearances in films such as "Smokin' Aces."
- 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 Wilson Target entity description: Patrick Wilson is an American musician best known as the longtime drummer for the rock band Weezer.
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A.
Patrick Wilson
Patrick Wilson is an American actor known for his roles in major horror franchises like The Conjuring and Insidious, as well as superhero and blockbuster films.
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B.
Brad Fuller
Brad Fuller is a film editor known for his work on the documentary "He Named Me Malala."
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C.
Brad Fuller
Brad Fuller is an American film and television producer best known for co-founding Platinum Dunes and producing numerous horror franchises, including remakes of classic slasher films and projects like The Purge.
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D.
Ryan Joseph Wilson
Ryan Joseph Wilson is the birth name of Ryan Giggs, the celebrated Welsh former professional footballer and long-serving Manchester United winger and coach.
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E.
Matthew Fox
Matthew Fox is an American actor best known for his leading role as Jack Shephard on the television series "Lost" and for appearances in films such as "Smokin' Aces."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drummer
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | late 1980s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
The Special Goodness
ⓘ
Weezer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| birthDate | 1969-02-01 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Buffalo
ⓘ
surface form:
Buffalo, New York, United States
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Wilson ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
power pop ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Patrick ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://weezer.com/ ⓘ |
| instrument |
drum kit
ⓘ
guitar ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
The Special Goodness
ⓘ
Weezer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Patrick Wilson ⓘ |
| notableRole | longtime drummer for Weezer ⓘ |
| notableSongContribution |
Buddy Holly
ⓘ
surface form:
“Buddy Holly” (drums)
“Say It Ain’t So” (drums) ⓘ Undone – The Sweater Song ⓘ
surface form:
“Undone – The Sweater Song” (drums)
|
| notableWork |
Everything Will Be Alright in the End
ⓘ
Hurley ⓘ Make Believe ⓘ Maladroit ⓘ OK Human ⓘ Pacific Daydream ⓘ Pinkerton ⓘ Raditude ⓘ Van Weezer NERFINISHED ⓘ Weezer (Black Album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Weezer (Blue Album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Weezer (Green Album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Weezer (Red Album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Weezer (Teal Album) NERFINISHED ⓘ Weezer (White Album) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
drummer
ⓘ
musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| partOf | original Weezer lineup ⓘ |
| positionHeld | drummer of Weezer ⓘ |
| spouse | Jennifer Wilson ⓘ |
| startTime (Weezer membership) | 1992 ⓘ |
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 Wilson Description of subject: Patrick Wilson is an American musician best known as the longtime drummer for the rock band Weezer.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Surf Wax America
subject surface form:
Weezer (Blue Album)