Patrick Swayze
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Patrick Swayze was an American actor and dancer best known for his charismatic leading roles in hit films such as "Dirty Dancing" and "Ghost."
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patrick Swayze canonical | 35 |
| Patrick Swayze as Truman Gates | 1 |
| Patrick Wayne Swayze | 1 |
| Swayze | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2834516 — 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 Swayze Context triple: [Ghost, starring, Patrick Swayze]
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A.
Val Kilmer
Val Kilmer is an American actor known for his versatile performances in films such as "Top Gun," "The Doors," and "Batman Forever."
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B.
Richard Gere
Richard Gere is an American actor known for his leading roles in films such as "American Gigolo," "An Officer and a Gentleman," and "Pretty Woman."
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C.
Scott Baio
Scott Baio is an American actor best known for his roles on the television series "Happy Days," "Joanie Loves Chachi," and "Charles in Charge."
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D.
Luke Perry
Luke Perry was an American actor best known for his role as Dylan McKay on the television series "Beverly Hills, 90210."
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E.
Don Johnson
Don Johnson is an American actor best known for his charismatic leading role in the 1980s TV series "Miami Vice" and numerous film and television appearances.
- 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 Swayze Target entity description: Patrick Swayze was an American actor and dancer best known for his charismatic leading roles in hit films such as "Dirty Dancing" and "Ghost."
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A.
Val Kilmer
Val Kilmer is an American actor known for his versatile performances in films such as "Top Gun," "The Doors," and "Batman Forever."
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B.
Richard Gere
Richard Gere is an American actor known for his leading roles in films such as "American Gigolo," "An Officer and a Gentleman," and "Pretty Woman."
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C.
Scott Baio
Scott Baio is an American actor best known for his roles on the television series "Happy Days," "Joanie Loves Chachi," and "Charles in Charge."
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D.
Luke Perry
Luke Perry was an American actor best known for his role as Dylan McKay on the television series "Beverly Hills, 90210."
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E.
Don Johnson
Don Johnson is an American actor best known for his charismatic leading role in the 1980s TV series "Miami Vice" and numerous film and television appearances.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
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 Swayze Description of subject: Patrick Swayze was an American actor and dancer best known for his charismatic leading roles in hit films such as "Dirty Dancing" and "Ghost."
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
North and South
linked to: Patrick Swayze
linked to: Patrick Swayze
linked to: Patrick Swayze
subject linked to:
Jim Cunningham
subject linked to:
Bodhi is the charismatic leader of a gang of bank robbers and surfer