Paul Shenar
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Paul Shenar was an American actor best known for his intense character roles in film and television, including his portrayal of Bolivian drug lord Alejandro Sosa in "Scarface."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul Shenar canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13216951 — 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: Paul Shenar Context triple: [The Big Blue, starring, Paul Shenar]
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A.
Kevin Chinoy
Kevin Chinoy is an American film and television producer best known for his work on acclaimed independent projects such as "The Florida Project."
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B.
Ed Cherney
Ed Cherney was a Grammy-winning American recording engineer and mixer renowned for his work with artists such as Eric Clapton, Bonnie Raitt, and the Rolling Stones.
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C.
John Sarrao
John Sarrao is an American physicist and scientific leader known for his work in condensed matter physics and for directing major U.S. research institutions, including the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
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D.
Daren Kagasoff
Daren Kagasoff is an American actor best known for his starring role as Ricky Underwood on the teen drama series "The Secret Life of the American Teenager."
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E.
Phil Shaouy
Phil Shaouy is a music producer best known for his work on Maroon 5’s album "Red Pill Blues."
- 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: Paul Shenar Target entity description: Paul Shenar was an American actor best known for his intense character roles in film and television, including his portrayal of Bolivian drug lord Alejandro Sosa in "Scarface."
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A.
Kevin Chinoy
Kevin Chinoy is an American film and television producer best known for his work on acclaimed independent projects such as "The Florida Project."
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B.
Ed Cherney
Ed Cherney was a Grammy-winning American recording engineer and mixer renowned for his work with artists such as Eric Clapton, Bonnie Raitt, and the Rolling Stones.
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C.
John Sarrao
John Sarrao is an American physicist and scientific leader known for his work in condensed matter physics and for directing major U.S. research institutions, including the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
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D.
Daren Kagasoff
Daren Kagasoff is an American actor best known for his starring role as Ricky Underwood on the teen drama series "The Secret Life of the American Teenager."
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E.
Phil Shaouy
Phil Shaouy is a music producer best known for his work on Maroon 5’s album "Red Pill Blues."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
American film industry
NERFINISHED
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American television industry ⓘ American theatre ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Best Seller
NERFINISHED
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Raw Deal NERFINISHED ⓘ The Big Blue NERFINISHED ⓘ Zorro: The Gay Blade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Albert Paul Shenar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Wisconsin, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | AIDS-related complications ⓘ |
| characterIn | Scarface NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1936-02-12 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1989-10-11 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Polish American NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Shenar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName |
Albert
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paul ⓘ |
| knownFor |
intense character roles
ⓘ
portrayal of villains ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Paul Shenar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Best Seller
NERFINISHED
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Raw Deal NERFINISHED ⓘ Scarface NERFINISHED ⓘ The Big Blue NERFINISHED ⓘ The Secret of NIMH NERFINISHED ⓘ Zorro: The Gay Blade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | West Hollywood, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayed |
Alejandro Sosa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jenner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| voiceWorkIn | The Secret of NIMH NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1960s–1980s ⓘ |
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: Paul Shenar Description of subject: Paul Shenar was an American actor best known for his intense character roles in film and television, including his portrayal of Bolivian drug lord Alejandro Sosa in "Scarface."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.