Robert P. Patterson
E202023
American lawyer
United States Army officer
United States federal judge
United States government official
human
Robert P. Patterson was an American lawyer, judge, and government official who played a key leadership role in the U.S. military administration during and immediately after World War II.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert P. Patterson canonical | 5 |
| Robert P. Patterson Jr. | 1 |
| Robert Porter Patterson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T331999 — 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: Robert P. Patterson Context triple: [Secretary of War, positionHeldBy, Robert P. Patterson]
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A.
John A. Wilson
John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
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B.
Edmund G. Ross
Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
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C.
Samuel J. Kirkwood
Samuel J. Kirkwood was a 19th-century American politician best known for serving as governor of Iowa and as a U.S. senator during the Civil War era.
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D.
Joseph E. Sheffield
Joseph E. Sheffield was a 19th-century American railroad executive and philanthropist whose major donations to Yale University led to the establishment of the Sheffield Scientific School.
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E.
John A. Pearson
John A. Pearson was a prominent early 20th-century Canadian architect known for designing major public and institutional buildings.
- 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: Robert P. Patterson Target entity description: Robert P. Patterson was an American lawyer, judge, and government official who played a key leadership role in the U.S. military administration during and immediately after World War II.
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A.
John A. Wilson
John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
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B.
Edmund G. Ross
Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
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C.
Samuel J. Kirkwood
Samuel J. Kirkwood was a 19th-century American politician best known for serving as governor of Iowa and as a U.S. senator during the Civil War era.
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D.
Joseph E. Sheffield
Joseph E. Sheffield was a 19th-century American railroad executive and philanthropist whose major donations to Yale University led to the establishment of the Sheffield Scientific School.
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E.
John A. Pearson
John A. Pearson was a prominent early 20th-century Canadian architect known for designing major public and institutional buildings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Robert P. Patterson Description of subject: Robert P. Patterson was an American lawyer, judge, and government official who played a key leadership role in the U.S. military administration during and immediately after World War II.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Robert P. Patterson
linked to: Robert P. Patterson