Patrick Gass
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Patrick Gass was an American soldier and carpenter best known for serving as a sergeant and diarist on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, whose published journal became a key early account of the journey.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Patrick Gass canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5341243 — 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 Gass Context triple: [Lewis and Clark Expedition, member, Patrick Gass]
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A.
Zebulon Pike
Zebulon Pike was an early 19th-century American explorer and U.S. Army officer best known for his expeditions into the American West, including the discovery of the peak in Colorado that now bears his name, Pike's Peak.
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B.
George Donner
George Donner was an American pioneer and leader of the ill-fated Donner Party wagon train that became trapped in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846–1847.
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C.
Meriwether Lewis
Meriwether Lewis was an American explorer, soldier, and politician best known for co-leading the Lewis and Clark Expedition that charted the newly acquired western territories of the United States.
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D.
Nicholas Trist
Nicholas Trist was a 19th-century American diplomat best known for negotiating the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican–American War.
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E.
Samuel Ballard
Samuel Ballard is a fictional barrister and conservative, somewhat pompous head of chambers in John Mortimer’s Rumpole of the Bailey stories.
- 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 Gass Target entity description: Patrick Gass was an American soldier and carpenter best known for serving as a sergeant and diarist on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, whose published journal became a key early account of the journey.
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A.
Zebulon Pike
Zebulon Pike was an early 19th-century American explorer and U.S. Army officer best known for his expeditions into the American West, including the discovery of the peak in Colorado that now bears his name, Pike's Peak.
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B.
George Donner
George Donner was an American pioneer and leader of the ill-fated Donner Party wagon train that became trapped in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846–1847.
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C.
Meriwether Lewis
Meriwether Lewis was an American explorer, soldier, and politician best known for co-leading the Lewis and Clark Expedition that charted the newly acquired western territories of the United States.
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D.
Nicholas Trist
Nicholas Trist was a 19th-century American diplomat best known for negotiating the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican–American War.
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E.
Samuel Ballard
Samuel Ballard is a fictional barrister and conservative, somewhat pompous head of chambers in John Mortimer’s Rumpole of the Bailey stories.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American soldier
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carpenter ⓘ diarist ⓘ explorer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Gass ⓘ |
| genre | travel literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Patrick ⓘ |
| hasRole |
carpenter for the Lewis and Clark Expedition
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journal keeper on the Lewis and Clark Expedition ⓘ non-commissioned officer in the Lewis and Clark Expedition ⓘ |
| knownFor |
early published account of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
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keeping a journal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition ⓘ serving as sergeant on the Lewis and Clark Expedition ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Lewis and Clark Expedition ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| notableFor | providing one of the earliest published narratives of the Lewis and Clark journey ⓘ |
| notableWork | Journal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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carpenter ⓘ explorer ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Lewis and Clark Expedition ⓘ |
| positionHeld | sergeant ⓘ |
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 Gass Description of subject: Patrick Gass was an American soldier and carpenter best known for serving as a sergeant and diarist on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, whose published journal became a key early account of the journey.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.