Patty Hearst
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Patty Hearst is an American heiress who became infamous in the 1970s after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army and later participating in their criminal activities, sparking intense public and legal controversy.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Patty Hearst canonical | 10 |
| Patricia Hearst | 6 |
| Patricia Campbell Hearst | 2 |
| Patty Hearst (1988 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6043109 — 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: Patty Hearst Context triple: [Paul Schrader, notableWork, Patty Hearst]
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A.
Elizabeth Jane Cochran
Elizabeth Jane Cochran, better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was a pioneering American investigative journalist famed for her undercover exposés and record-setting trip around the world.
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B.
Aileen Wuornos
Aileen Wuornos was an American serial killer who murdered several men in Florida between 1989 and 1990 and became one of the most infamous female criminals in U.S. history.
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C.
Marian Marsh
Marian Marsh was a Canadian-born American film actress best known for her leading roles in early 1930s Hollywood dramas and crime films.
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D.
Christine Grady
Christine Grady is an American nurse-bioethicist who heads the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center and is known for her work on clinical research ethics.
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E.
Ma Barker
Ma Barker was a notorious American crime matriarch of the early 20th century, associated with the Barker–Karpis gang and widely (though controversially) portrayed as the mastermind behind her sons’ criminal activities.
- 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: Patty Hearst Target entity description: Patty Hearst is an American heiress who became infamous in the 1970s after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army and later participating in their criminal activities, sparking intense public and legal controversy.
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A.
Elizabeth Jane Cochran
Elizabeth Jane Cochran, better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was a pioneering American investigative journalist famed for her undercover exposés and record-setting trip around the world.
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B.
Aileen Wuornos
Aileen Wuornos was an American serial killer who murdered several men in Florida between 1989 and 1990 and became one of the most infamous female criminals in U.S. history.
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C.
Marian Marsh
Marian Marsh was a Canadian-born American film actress best known for her leading roles in early 1930s Hollywood dramas and crime films.
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D.
Christine Grady
Christine Grady is an American nurse-bioethicist who heads the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center and is known for her work on clinical research ethics.
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E.
Ma Barker
Ma Barker was a notorious American crime matriarch of the early 20th century, associated with the Barker–Karpis gang and widely (though controversially) portrayed as the mastermind behind her sons’ criminal activities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Patty Hearst Description of subject: Patty Hearst is an American heiress who became infamous in the 1970s after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army and later participating in their criminal activities, sparking intense public and legal controversy.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Cecil B. Demented (film)
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