Vincent Van Patten
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Vincent Van Patten is an American actor, former professional tennis player, and poker commentator known for his roles in film and television as well as his work on the World Poker Tour.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Vincent Van Patten canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6320643 — 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: Vincent Van Patten Context triple: [Dick Van Patten, child, Vincent Van Patten]
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A.
Dick Van Patten
Dick Van Patten was an American actor best known for his role as the father on the television series "Eight Is Enough" and for numerous character roles in film and TV comedies.
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B.
Joseph Losey
Joseph Losey was an American-born film director known for his stylistically distinctive and psychologically complex works, particularly in European cinema after his move to the United Kingdom.
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C.
Rudolph Maté
Rudolph Maté was a Polish-born cinematographer and film director renowned for his visually striking work in classic Hollywood cinema, including films like "The Passion of Joan of Arc" and "D.O.A."
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D.
Cyril Tourneur
Cyril Tourneur was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his dark, revenge-themed tragedies such as "The Revenger's Tragedy."
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E.
Robert Rossen
Robert Rossen was an American film director and screenwriter best known for socially conscious dramas such as "All the King's Men" and "The Hustler."
- 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: Vincent Van Patten Target entity description: Vincent Van Patten is an American actor, former professional tennis player, and poker commentator known for his roles in film and television as well as his work on the World Poker Tour.
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A.
Dick Van Patten
Dick Van Patten was an American actor best known for his role as the father on the television series "Eight Is Enough" and for numerous character roles in film and TV comedies.
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B.
Joseph Losey
Joseph Losey was an American-born film director known for his stylistically distinctive and psychologically complex works, particularly in European cinema after his move to the United Kingdom.
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C.
Rudolph Maté
Rudolph Maté was a Polish-born cinematographer and film director renowned for his visually striking work in classic Hollywood cinema, including films like "The Passion of Joan of Arc" and "D.O.A."
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D.
Cyril Tourneur
Cyril Tourneur was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his dark, revenge-themed tragedies such as "The Revenger's Tragedy."
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E.
Robert Rossen
Robert Rossen was an American film director and screenwriter best known for socially conscious dramas such as "All the King's Men" and "The Hustler."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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poker commentator ⓘ tennis player ⓘ |
| achievement | won the 1981 Seiko World Super Tennis tournament in Tokyo ⓘ |
| actedIn |
Apple’s Way
NERFINISHED
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Baywatch NERFINISHED ⓘ Bonanza NERFINISHED ⓘ Hell Night NERFINISHED ⓘ Medical Center NERFINISHED ⓘ Rock ‘n’ Roll High School NERFINISHED ⓘ The Bionic Woman NERFINISHED ⓘ The Break NERFINISHED ⓘ The Young and the Restless NERFINISHED ⓘ Three for the Road NERFINISHED ⓘ Wonder Woman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Duke Van Patten
NERFINISHED
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Jesse Thomas Van Patten NERFINISHED ⓘ Vincent Van Patten Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coAuthored | The Picasso Flop NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1957-10-17 ⓘ |
| familyName | Van Patten NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWriting | poker fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Vincent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| highestATPRankingSingles | 26 ⓘ |
| isKnownFor | World Poker Tour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Vincent Van Patten NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ poker commentator ⓘ professional tennis player ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| parent | Dick Van Patten NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Bellerose, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedFor | United States Davis Cup team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| produced | The Break NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | California, United States ⓘ |
| retiredFromTennis | mid-1980s ⓘ |
| role | co-commentator on the World Poker Tour television series ⓘ |
| sibling |
Nels Van Patten
NERFINISHED
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Tim Van Patten NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport |
poker
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tennis ⓘ |
| spouse |
Betty Sue Lynn
NERFINISHED
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Eileen Davidson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| turnedProInTennis | 1976 ⓘ |
| wrote | The Break NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfHighestATPRankingSingles | 1982 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Vincent Van Patten Description of subject: Vincent Van Patten is an American actor, former professional tennis player, and poker commentator known for his roles in film and television as well as his work on the World Poker Tour.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.