Pat Frank
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Pat Frank was an American novelist and journalist best known for his Cold War-era apocalyptic novel "Alas, Babylon."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pat Frank canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8613712 — 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: Pat Frank Context triple: [Frank, hasNotableBearer, Pat Frank]
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A.
Samuel Fisk
Samuel Fisk is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Fisk.
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B.
Mark Helprin
Mark Helprin is an American novelist and short story writer known for his richly imaginative, lyrical fiction, including the novel "Winter's Tale."
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C.
John W. Blum
John W. Blum is a screenwriter best known for his work on the comedy film "The Man from the Diners' Club."
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D.
Patricia P. Frank
Patricia P. Frank is a screenwriter known for her work on the classic comedy film "The Court Jester."
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E.
George W. Kenner
George W. Kenner was an organic chemist and academic known for mentoring future Nobel laureate Richard J. Roberts during his doctoral studies.
- 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: Pat Frank Target entity description: Pat Frank was an American novelist and journalist best known for his Cold War-era apocalyptic novel "Alas, Babylon."
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A.
Samuel Fisk
Samuel Fisk is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Fisk.
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B.
Mark Helprin
Mark Helprin is an American novelist and short story writer known for his richly imaginative, lyrical fiction, including the novel "Winter's Tale."
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C.
John W. Blum
John W. Blum is a screenwriter best known for his work on the comedy film "The Man from the Diners' Club."
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D.
Patricia P. Frank
Patricia P. Frank is a screenwriter known for her work on the classic comedy film "The Court Jester."
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E.
George W. Kenner
George W. Kenner was an organic chemist and academic known for mentoring future Nobel laureate Richard J. Roberts during his doctoral studies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
journalist
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novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| author |
Pat Frank
NERFINISHED
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Pat Frank NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Harry Hart Frank NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pancreatitis ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| coveredConflict | World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1908-05-05 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1964-10-12 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Florida (incomplete studies) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Office of War Information
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Overseas News Agency NERFINISHED ⓘ United States State Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
apocalyptic fiction
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political fiction ⓘ post-apocalyptic fiction ⓘ satirical science fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryService | United States Office of War Information NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Pat Frank NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Alas, Babylon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mr. Adam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
ⓘ
novelist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Atlantic Beach, Florida, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate |
1946
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1959 ⓘ |
| residence |
Atlantic Beach, Florida, United States
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jacksonville, Florida, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| wrote |
Alas, Babylon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
An Affair of State NERFINISHED ⓘ Forbidden Area NERFINISHED ⓘ Hold Back the Night NERFINISHED ⓘ How to Survive the H-Bomb… and Why NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr. Adam NERFINISHED ⓘ The Long Way Around 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: Pat Frank Description of subject: Pat Frank was an American novelist and journalist best known for his Cold War-era apocalyptic novel "Alas, Babylon."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.