Paterson
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Paterson is a Scottish-origin surname borne by various notable individuals across politics, law, sports, and the arts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paterson canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2328047 — 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: Paterson Context triple: [William Paterson, familyName, Paterson]
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A.
Paterson
Paterson is an Australian federal electoral division in New South Wales, represented in the national Parliament.
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B.
Paterson, New Jersey
Paterson, New Jersey is a historic industrial city in northern New Jersey known for its diverse immigrant communities, including a significant Dutch American presence.
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C.
Newburgh
Newburgh is a small rural village in Lancashire, England, known for its historic buildings and scenic countryside setting.
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D.
Newburgh
Newburgh is a small historic town in eastern Scotland known for its scenic setting on the River Tay and its traditional Scottish character.
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E.
Newark
Newark was the early colonial town that served as the first capital of Upper Canada, located at the mouth of the Niagara River (now known as Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario).
- 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: Paterson Target entity description: Paterson is a Scottish-origin surname borne by various notable individuals across politics, law, sports, and the arts.
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A.
Paterson
Paterson is an Australian federal electoral division in New South Wales, represented in the national Parliament.
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B.
Paterson, New Jersey
Paterson, New Jersey is a historic industrial city in northern New Jersey known for its diverse immigrant communities, including a significant Dutch American presence.
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C.
Newburgh
Newburgh is a small rural village in Lancashire, England, known for its historic buildings and scenic countryside setting.
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D.
Newburgh
Newburgh is a small historic town in eastern Scotland known for its scenic setting on the River Tay and its traditional Scottish character.
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E.
Newark
Newark is a small suburban city in California’s San Francisco Bay Area, located near the southern end of the East Bay.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| derivedFromGivenName | Patrick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
English-language surnames
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Patronymic surnames ⓘ Scottish surnames ⓘ |
| hasDerivation | patronymic surname ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Paterson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Andrew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
English
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Scots NERFINISHED ⓘ Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| hasNationality |
American
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Australian ⓘ Canadian-American ⓘ New Zealander ⓘ Scottish ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Banjo Paterson
NERFINISHED
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Craig Paterson NERFINISHED ⓘ David Paterson NERFINISHED ⓘ Don Paterson NERFINISHED ⓘ Isabel Paterson NERFINISHED ⓘ James Paterson NERFINISHED ⓘ Jim Paterson NERFINISHED ⓘ Katherine Paterson NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Paterson NERFINISHED ⓘ William Paterson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableWork | Bridge to Terabithia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
author
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children's author ⓘ cricketer ⓘ footballer ⓘ journalist ⓘ jurist ⓘ libertarian theorist ⓘ novelist ⓘ poet ⓘ politician ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPosition |
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Governor of New York ⓘ |
| hasSport |
association football
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cricket ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
PaterSONE
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Patersone ⓘ Patterson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInRegion |
Australia
NERFINISHED
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New Zealand NERFINISHED ⓘ Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Paterson Description of subject: Paterson is a Scottish-origin surname borne by various notable individuals across politics, law, sports, and the arts.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.