Patrick Cory
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Patrick Cory is the scientist protagonist in the science fiction novel "Donovan's Brain," known for preserving and communicating with a disembodied brain.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patrick Cory canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9914677 — 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 Cory Context triple: [Donovan's Brain, hasCharacter, Patrick Cory]
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A.
Timothy O'Leary
Timothy O'Leary is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably shared with the more widely recognized cultural figure Timothy Leary, though specific distinguishing details about him are not well documented.
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B.
Patrick Lucey
Patrick Lucey was an American politician and former governor of Wisconsin who later ran for vice president as an independent in the 1980 U.S. presidential election.
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C.
Calvin O’Keefe
Calvin O’Keefe is a kind, intuitive, and athletic teenage boy who joins Meg and Charles Wallace Murry on their interdimensional quest in Madeleine L’Engle’s novel "A Wrinkle in Time."
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D.
Patrick Sullivan
Patrick Sullivan is a distinguished member of the Sullivan family recognized for his prominence and contributions associated with the family name.
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E.
Matthew Holworthy
Matthew Holworthy was a 17th-century English merchant and philanthropist best known for endowing the Holworthy Professorship of English Law at the University of Cambridge.
- 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 Cory Target entity description: Patrick Cory is the scientist protagonist in the science fiction novel "Donovan's Brain," known for preserving and communicating with a disembodied brain.
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A.
Timothy O'Leary
Timothy O'Leary is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably shared with the more widely recognized cultural figure Timothy Leary, though specific distinguishing details about him are not well documented.
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B.
Patrick Lucey
Patrick Lucey was an American politician and former governor of Wisconsin who later ran for vice president as an independent in the 1980 U.S. presidential election.
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C.
Calvin O’Keefe
Calvin O’Keefe is a kind, intuitive, and athletic teenage boy who joins Meg and Charles Wallace Murry on their interdimensional quest in Madeleine L’Engle’s novel "A Wrinkle in Time."
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D.
Patrick Sullivan
Patrick Sullivan is a distinguished member of the Sullivan family recognized for his prominence and contributions associated with the family name.
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E.
Matthew Holworthy
Matthew Holworthy was a 17th-century English merchant and philanthropist best known for endowing the Holworthy Professorship of English Law at the University of Cambridge.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional scientist
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literary character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Donovan's Brain ⓘ |
| appearsInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| associatedWith | W.H. Donovan ⓘ |
| characterRole |
central point-of-view character
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lead researcher in brain experiment ⓘ |
| communicatesWith | Donovan's brain via telepathy ⓘ |
| controlsDevice | life-support apparatus for Donovan's brain ⓘ |
| createdBy | Curt Siodmak ⓘ |
| ethicalConflict |
consequences of sustaining a disembodied brain
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loss of autonomy under brain's influence ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Donovan's Brain universe
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linked to:
Donovan's Brain
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| fieldOfStudy |
brain research
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neuroscience ⓘ physiology ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Donovan's Brain ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | film adaptations of Donovan's Brain ⓘ |
| influences | later depictions of disembodied brains in fiction ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | to explore moral limits of scientific experimentation ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
communicating with a disembodied brain
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preserving a disembodied brain ⓘ |
| occupation |
neurologist
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scientist ⓘ |
| performsExperimentOn |
W.H. Donovan's brain
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linked to:
Donovan's Brain
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| publicationYearOfFirstAppearance | 1942 ⓘ |
| settingOfWork |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| strugglesAgainst | mental domination by Donovan's brain ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
ethics of medical experimentation
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identity ⓘ mind control ⓘ scientific hubris ⓘ |
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 Cory Description of subject: Patrick Cory is the scientist protagonist in the science fiction novel "Donovan's Brain," known for preserving and communicating with a disembodied brain.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.