Patrick O'Brian
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Patrick O'Brian was a British novelist best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of historical naval novels set during the Napoleonic Wars.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Patrick O’Brian | 44 |
| Patrick O'Brian canonical | 19 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1207885 — 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 O'Brian Context triple: [Captain Jack Aubrey, createdBy, Patrick O'Brian]
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A.
C.J. Sansom
C.J. Sansom was a British historical crime novelist best known for his bestselling Shardlake series set in Tudor England.
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William Fleming
William Fleming is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as politics, education, and sports.
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Jack Higgins
Jack Higgins was a bestselling British thriller novelist, best known for his World War II espionage novel "The Eagle Has Landed."
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Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey Archer is a British author and former politician best known for his bestselling novels and thrillers.
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Richard Hughes
Richard Hughes is a British economist and civil servant who serves as the head of the UK's independent fiscal watchdog, overseeing analysis of the government's public finances and economic forecasts.
- 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 O'Brian Target entity description: Patrick O'Brian was a British novelist best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of historical naval novels set during the Napoleonic Wars.
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A.
C.J. Sansom
C.J. Sansom was a British historical crime novelist best known for his bestselling Shardlake series set in Tudor England.
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B.
William Fleming
William Fleming is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as politics, education, and sports.
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C.
Jack Higgins
Jack Higgins was a bestselling British thriller novelist, best known for his World War II espionage novel "The Eagle Has Landed."
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D.
Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey Archer is a British author and former politician best known for his bestselling novels and thrillers.
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E.
Richard Hughes
Richard Hughes is a British economist and civil servant who serves as the head of the UK's independent fiscal watchdog, overseeing analysis of the government's public finances and economic forecasts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
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 O'Brian Description of subject: Patrick O'Brian was a British novelist best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of historical naval novels set during the Napoleonic Wars.
Referenced by (63)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Captain Jack Aubrey in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
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The Surgeon’s Mate
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Richard Patrick Russ
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French privateer Acheron
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