Neal Patterson
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Neal Patterson was an American businessman best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of the health information technology company Cerner Corporation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Neal Patterson canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T956444 — 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: Neal Patterson Context triple: [Cerner, foundedBy, Neal Patterson]
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A.
Tom Luddy
Tom Luddy was an American film producer, curator, and influential cinephile best known as a co-founder and long-time guiding force of the Telluride Film Festival.
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B.
Rex Walters
Rex Walters is an American former professional basketball player and college coach best known for his head coaching tenure at the University of San Francisco and his sharpshooting guard play at Kansas.
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C.
Ted Cheesman
Ted Cheesman was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood productions, including the 1933 monster film "King Kong."
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D.
Gary Morton
Gary Morton was an American comedian and television producer best known as the second husband of Lucille Ball and for his behind-the-scenes work on her later TV projects.
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E.
Merritt Paulson
Merritt Paulson is an American sports executive best known for owning and leading Portland’s professional soccer clubs, including the Portland Timbers of Major League Soccer and the Portland Thorns FC of the National Women's Soccer League.
- 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: Neal Patterson Target entity description: Neal Patterson was an American businessman best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of the health information technology company Cerner Corporation.
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A.
Tom Luddy
Tom Luddy was an American film producer, curator, and influential cinephile best known as a co-founder and long-time guiding force of the Telluride Film Festival.
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B.
Rex Walters
Rex Walters is an American former professional basketball player and college coach best known for his head coaching tenure at the University of San Francisco and his sharpshooting guard play at Kansas.
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C.
Ted Cheesman
Ted Cheesman was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood productions, including the 1933 monster film "King Kong."
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D.
Gary Morton
Gary Morton was an American comedian and television producer best known as the second husband of Lucille Ball and for his behind-the-scenes work on her later TV projects.
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E.
Merritt Paulson
Merritt Paulson is an American sports executive best known for owning and leading Portland’s professional soccer clubs, including the Portland Timbers of Major League Soccer and the Portland Thorns FC of the National Women's Soccer League.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
ⓘ
chief executive officer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Oklahoma State University Distinguished Alumni Award ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | soft-tissue cancer ⓘ |
| coFounded |
Cerner Corporation
ⓘ
linked to:
Cerner
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1949-12-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2017-07-09 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Oklahoma State University
ⓘ
University of Oklahoma ⓘ |
| employer |
Cerner Corporation
ⓘ
linked to:
Cerner
|
| familyName | Patterson ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
health information technology
ⓘ
healthcare IT industry ⓘ |
| founded |
Kansas City Wizards ownership group
ⓘ
linked to:
Sporting Kansas City
|
| givenName | Neal ⓘ |
| hasChild | three children ⓘ |
| industry | health information technology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding Cerner Corporation
ⓘ
leading Cerner Corporation ⓘ |
| memberOf | Cerner Corporation board of directors ⓘ |
| notableRole |
co-founder of Cerner Corporation
ⓘ
longtime CEO of Cerner Corporation ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Cerner Corporation
ⓘ
linked to:
Cerner
|
| occupation |
businessman
ⓘ
chief executive officer ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ |
| owned |
Sporting Kansas City (formerly Kansas City Wizards)
ⓘ
linked to:
Sporting Kansas City
|
| placeOfBirth | Anthony, Kansas, United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
CEO of Cerner Corporation
ⓘ
chairman of Cerner Corporation ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
ⓘ
linked to:
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sportsDiscipline | association football club ownership ⓘ |
| spouse | Jeanne Lillig-Patterson ⓘ |
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: Neal Patterson Description of subject: Neal Patterson was an American businessman best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of the health information technology company Cerner Corporation.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.