Patrick Harper
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Patrick Harper is a fiercely loyal Irish sergeant and close companion to Richard Sharpe in Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe historical military novels and their television adaptations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patrick Harper canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10844783 — 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 Harper Context triple: [Richard Sharpe, notableRelationship, Patrick Harper]
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A.
Patrick Osbourne
Patrick Osbourne is a character from the television series "Revenge," known for his complex romantic involvement with tech billionaire Nolan Ross.
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B.
Michael Haley
Michael Haley is an American military officer and businessman best known as the husband of former South Carolina governor and U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley.
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C.
Levar Stoney
Levar Stoney is an American politician who serves as the mayor of Richmond, Virginia, and is known for being one of the youngest mayors in the city’s history.
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D.
Kwame Harris
Kwame Harris is a former American football offensive tackle who played in the NFL, primarily for the San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders.
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E.
Tony Porter
Tony Porter is a British public official who served as the UK's Surveillance Camera Commissioner, overseeing the regulation and ethical use of surveillance camera systems.
- 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 Harper Target entity description: Patrick Harper is a fiercely loyal Irish sergeant and close companion to Richard Sharpe in Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe historical military novels and their television adaptations.
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A.
Patrick Osbourne
Patrick Osbourne is a character from the television series "Revenge," known for his complex romantic involvement with tech billionaire Nolan Ross.
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B.
Michael Haley
Michael Haley is an American military officer and businessman best known as the husband of former South Carolina governor and U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley.
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C.
Levar Stoney
Levar Stoney is an American politician who serves as the mayor of Richmond, Virginia, and is known for being one of the youngest mayors in the city’s history.
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D.
Kwame Harris
Kwame Harris is a former American football offensive tackle who played in the NFL, primarily for the San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders.
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E.
Tony Porter
Tony Porter is a British public official who served as the UK's Surveillance Camera Commissioner, overseeing the regulation and ethical use of surveillance camera systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish person
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| allegiance |
95th Rifles
NERFINISHED
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British Army NERFINISHED ⓘ Rifle Brigade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Sharpe (TV series)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sharpe (novel series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorOfWork | Bernard Cornwell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Napoleonic Wars soldier archetype ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
brave
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good-humoured ⓘ loyal ⓘ physically strong ⓘ |
| closeCompanionOf | Richard Sharpe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Bernard Cornwell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Irish ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Sharpe series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Sharpe's Rifles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| friendOf | Riflemen of the 95th NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | historical military fiction ⓘ |
| hasCompanion | Richard Sharpe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| loyalTo |
British Crown
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Richard Sharpe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium |
novel
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Sergeant ⓘ |
| nationality | Irish ⓘ |
| occupation | sergeant ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Daragh O'Malley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primarySetting | Napoleonic Wars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesUnder | Richard Sharpe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| weapon | seven-barrelled volley gun ⓘ |
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 Harper Description of subject: Patrick Harper is a fiercely loyal Irish sergeant and close companion to Richard Sharpe in Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe historical military novels and their television adaptations.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.