Patricia Scott
E359513
Patricia Scott was the first wife of acclaimed film and theater director Mike Nichols.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patricia Scott canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2297786 — 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: Patricia Scott Context triple: [Mike Nichols, spouse, Patricia Scott]
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A.
Patricia Southall
Patricia Southall is a former Miss Virginia USA and philanthropist who was previously married to comedian Martin Lawrence and later to NFL Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith.
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B.
Patricia Curry
Patricia Curry is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Curry, though specific widely known public details about her are not clearly established.
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C.
Elaine Anderson Scott
Elaine Anderson Scott was the third wife of American author John Steinbeck, with whom she shared his later life and literary success.
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D.
Janet Patterson
Janet Patterson was an acclaimed Australian costume and production designer known for her richly detailed period work on films such as "The Piano" and "Oscar and Lucinda."
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E.
Diane Bemus Patrick
Diane Bemus Patrick is an American attorney and mental health advocate best known as the wife of former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick.
- 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: Patricia Scott Target entity description: Patricia Scott was the first wife of acclaimed film and theater director Mike Nichols.
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A.
Patricia Southall
Patricia Southall is a former Miss Virginia USA and philanthropist who was previously married to comedian Martin Lawrence and later to NFL Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith.
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B.
Patricia Curry
Patricia Curry is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Curry, though specific widely known public details about her are not clearly established.
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C.
Elaine Anderson Scott
Elaine Anderson Scott was the third wife of American author John Steinbeck, with whom she shared his later life and literary success.
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D.
Janet Patterson
Janet Patterson was an acclaimed Australian costume and production designer known for her richly detailed period work on films such as "The Piano" and "Oscar and Lucinda."
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E.
Diane Bemus Patrick
Diane Bemus Patrick is an American attorney and mental health advocate best known as the wife of former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of director Mike Nichols ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film director ⓘ stage actor ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Mike Nichols
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Patricia Scott ⓘ |
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: Patricia Scott Description of subject: Patricia Scott was the first wife of acclaimed film and theater director Mike Nichols.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Patricia Scott