Patty Dann
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Patty Dann is an American novelist and memoirist best known for writing the coming-of-age novel "Mermaids," which was adapted into a popular 1990 film.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Patty Dann canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7554449 — 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: Patty Dann Context triple: [Mermaids, basedOnWorkAuthor, Patty Dann]
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A.
Patty Andrews
Patty Andrews was the lead singer of the famed American close-harmony trio The Andrews Sisters, known for their popular swing and boogie-woogie recordings during the World War II era.
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B.
Patty Greene
Patty Greene is the socially awkward yet witty teenage protagonist of the early 1980s sitcom "Square Pegs," known for her attempts to fit into high school cliques.
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C.
Patty More
Patty More was an English woman of the 18th–19th century best known as the sister and close companion of writer and philanthropist Hannah More, with whom she shared a deeply religious and domestic life.
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D.
Patti Palmer
Patti Palmer was an American singer and entertainer best known as the first wife of comedian and actor Jerry Lewis.
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E.
Sandy Rogers
Sandy Rogers is one of the adopted children of American singer, actress, and cowgirl icon Dale Evans and her husband Roy Rogers.
- 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: Patty Dann Target entity description: Patty Dann is an American novelist and memoirist best known for writing the coming-of-age novel "Mermaids," which was adapted into a popular 1990 film.
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A.
Patty Andrews
Patty Andrews was the lead singer of the famed American close-harmony trio The Andrews Sisters, known for their popular swing and boogie-woogie recordings during the World War II era.
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B.
Patty Greene
Patty Greene is the socially awkward yet witty teenage protagonist of the early 1980s sitcom "Square Pegs," known for her attempts to fit into high school cliques.
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C.
Patty More
Patty More was an English woman of the 18th–19th century best known as the sister and close companion of writer and philanthropist Hannah More, with whom she shared a deeply religious and domestic life.
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D.
Patti Palmer
Patti Palmer was an American singer and entertainer best known as the first wife of comedian and actor Jerry Lewis.
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E.
Sandy Rogers
Sandy Rogers is one of the adopted children of American singer, actress, and cowgirl icon Dale Evans and her husband Roy Rogers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
memoirist
ⓘ
novelist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| author | Patty Dann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Mermaids (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Patricia Dann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Hunter College
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The New School NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Sarah Lawrence College
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The New School NERFINISHED ⓘ West Side YMCA Writer’s Voice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
creative writing
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literature ⓘ memoir writing ⓘ |
| genre |
coming-of-age fiction
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fiction ⓘ memoir ⓘ |
| hasChild | one son ⓘ |
| hasTaught |
fiction writing
ⓘ
memoir writing ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
teaching writing workshops
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writing the novel Mermaids ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Mermaids
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mermaids: A Novel NERFINISHED ⓘ Starfish NERFINISHED ⓘ Sweet & Crazy NERFINISHED ⓘ The Baby Boat: A Memoir of Adoption NERFINISHED ⓘ The Butterfly Hours: Transforming Memories into Memoir NERFINISHED ⓘ The Butterfly Hours: Writing Your Story NERFINISHED ⓘ The Goldfish Went on Vacation: A Memoir of Loss NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wright Sister NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
memoirist
ⓘ
novelist ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| spouse | Michael Dorris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workAdaptedAs | Mermaids (1990 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
coming-of-age narratives
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family-centered stories ⓘ first-person narrative ⓘ |
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: Patty Dann Description of subject: Patty Dann is an American novelist and memoirist best known for writing the coming-of-age novel "Mermaids," which was adapted into a popular 1990 film.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.