Patrick Egan
E580867
Patrick Egan was a notable figure significant enough in regional history or exploration to have the Egan Range in Nevada named in his honor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patrick Egan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6132467 — 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 Egan Context triple: [Egan Range, namedAfter, Patrick Egan]
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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.
Brian Kavanagh
Brian Kavanagh is a film editor best known for his work on notable Australian and international films, including the drama "The Devil's Playground."
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C.
John Doherty
John Doherty is known as the husband of American actress Michael Learned, famed for her role as Olivia Walton on the television series "The Waltons."
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D.
Patrick Flanagan
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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E.
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.
- 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 Egan Target entity description: Patrick Egan was a notable figure significant enough in regional history or exploration to have the Egan Range in Nevada named in his honor.
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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.
Brian Kavanagh
Brian Kavanagh is a film editor best known for his work on notable Australian and international films, including the drama "The Devil's Playground."
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C.
John Doherty
John Doherty is known as the husband of American actress Michael Learned, famed for her role as Olivia Walton on the television series "The Waltons."
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D.
Patrick Flanagan
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | person ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Egan Range
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotability |
exploration
ⓘ
regional history ⓘ |
| hasNotabilityRegion | Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honoredBy | Egan Range NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Patrick Egan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Patrick Egan 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: Patrick Egan Description of subject: Patrick Egan was a notable figure significant enough in regional history or exploration to have the Egan Range in Nevada named in his honor.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.