William Patrick Power
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William Patrick Power was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest and academic who served as the first rector of the Université Laval in Quebec City.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Patrick Power canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1896475 — 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: William Patrick Power Context triple: [Power, hasNotableBearer, William Patrick Power]
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A.
Brian Power
Brian Power is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including professionals in fields such as sports, music, and public service.
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B.
Richard Power
Richard Power is a personal name shared by several notable individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts.
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C.
Denis Power
Denis Power is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Power, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
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D.
Joe Power
Joe Power is a British psychic medium and author known for his public demonstrations of alleged communication with the dead and related media appearances.
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E.
Frank Power
Frank Power is a notable individual recognized for achievements or public prominence associated with the surname Power.
- 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: William Patrick Power Target entity description: William Patrick Power was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest and academic who served as the first rector of the Université Laval in Quebec City.
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A.
Brian Power
Brian Power is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including professionals in fields such as sports, music, and public service.
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B.
Richard Power
Richard Power is a personal name shared by several notable individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts.
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C.
Denis Power
Denis Power is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Power, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
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D.
Joe Power
Joe Power is a British psychic medium and author known for his public demonstrations of alleged communication with the dead and related media appearances.
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E.
Frank Power
Frank Power is a notable individual recognized for achievements or public prominence associated with the surname Power.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roman Catholic priest
ⓘ
academic ⓘ human ⓘ rector ⓘ |
| continentOfCitizenship | North America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Université Laval ⓘ |
| employer | Université Laval ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Catholic education
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higher education administration ⓘ theology ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Power ⓘ |
| hasGivenName |
Patrick
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William ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first rector of Université Laval ⓘ |
| occupation |
Roman Catholic priest
ⓘ
academic ⓘ |
| partOfClergyOf |
Roman Catholic Church in Canada
ⓘ
linked to:
Catholic Church in Canada
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| positionHeld |
first rector of Université Laval
ⓘ
rector of Université Laval ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence | Quebec City ⓘ |
| workLocation | Quebec City ⓘ |
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: William Patrick Power Description of subject: William Patrick Power was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest and academic who served as the first rector of the Université Laval in Quebec City.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.