Patrick Monahan
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Patrick Monahan is a Canadian legal scholar and former provost of York University, known for his expertise in constitutional law and public policy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Patrick Monahan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10190814 — 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 Monahan Context triple: [Osgoode Hall Law School, notableAlumnus, Patrick Monahan]
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A.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Billie Joe Armstrong is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the punk rock band Green Day.
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B.
Jacoby Shaddix
Jacoby Shaddix is an American singer and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist and frontman of the rock band Papa Roach.
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C.
Dean DeLeo
Dean DeLeo is an American guitarist best known as the lead guitarist and primary songwriter for the rock band Stone Temple Pilots.
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D.
Brian McCoy
Brian McCoy was one of the three members of the popular Irish cabaret group the Miami Showband who were murdered in the notorious 1975 loyalist paramilitary attack in County Down, Northern Ireland.
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E.
Pat Smear
Pat Smear is an American guitarist best known for his work with the punk band Germs, his role as a touring and later full-time member of Nirvana, and as a longtime guitarist for Foo Fighters.
- 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 Monahan Target entity description: Patrick Monahan is a Canadian legal scholar and former provost of York University, known for his expertise in constitutional law and public policy.
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A.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Billie Joe Armstrong is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the punk rock band Green Day.
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B.
Jacoby Shaddix
Jacoby Shaddix is an American singer and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist and frontman of the rock band Papa Roach.
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C.
Dean DeLeo
Dean DeLeo is an American guitarist best known as the lead guitarist and primary songwriter for the rock band Stone Temple Pilots.
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D.
Brian McCoy
Brian McCoy was one of the three members of the popular Irish cabaret group the Miami Showband who were murdered in the notorious 1975 loyalist paramilitary attack in County Down, Northern Ireland.
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E.
Pat Smear
Pat Smear is an American guitarist best known for his work with the punk band Germs, his role as a touring and later full-time member of Nirvana, and as a longtime guitarist for Foo Fighters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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legal scholar ⓘ university administrator ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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Osgoode Hall Law School ⓘ University of Ottawa ⓘ |
| employer |
Osgoode Hall Law School
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York University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
constitutional law
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public policy ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree |
LL.B.
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LL.M. ⓘ Ph.D. in law ⓘ |
| knownFor |
expertise in Canadian constitutional law
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expertise in public policy ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
writings on constitutional reform
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writings on public policy and governance ⓘ writings on the Canadian Constitution ⓘ |
| occupation |
law professor
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legal scholar ⓘ university administrator ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
dean of Osgoode Hall Law School
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provost of York University ⓘ vice-president academic of York University ⓘ |
| workLocation | Toronto ⓘ |
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 Monahan Description of subject: Patrick Monahan is a Canadian legal scholar and former provost of York University, known for his expertise in constitutional law and public policy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.