Paul
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Paul is the introspective, emotionally vulnerable narrator and protagonist of Julian Barnes’s novel "The Only Story," whose lifelong love affair shapes the book’s exploration of memory and regret.
All labels observed (1)
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| Paul canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20199117 — 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 Context triple: [The Only Story, mainCharacter, Paul]
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Paul is the middle-aged American widower portrayed by Marlon Brando in the controversial 1972 film "Last Tango in Paris."
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Paul is a laid-back, charming sperm donor whose unexpected involvement with his biological children disrupts a lesbian couple’s family dynamic in the film "The Kids Are All Right."
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Paul is a 2011 sci-fi comedy film about two British geeks who encounter a wisecracking alien during a road trip across the United States.
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Paul is a fictional character from Wallace Thurman's Harlem Renaissance novel "Infants of the Spring," which satirically portrays life in a bohemian Black artists' colony.
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Paul is a character in the film "Her," known as Theodore Twombly’s supportive and easygoing close friend.
- 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 Target entity description: Paul is the introspective, emotionally vulnerable narrator and protagonist of Julian Barnes’s novel "The Only Story," whose lifelong love affair shapes the book’s exploration of memory and regret.
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Paul
Paul is the central character of the story "Paul the Peddler," depicted as a resourceful young street vendor navigating the challenges of urban life.
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Paul is the ill-fated, obsessive young boy in D. H. Lawrence’s short story “The Rocking-Horse Winner,” whose frantic quest to secure his family’s financial fortune drives the plot’s tragic climax.
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Paul is the tormented protagonist of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s opera "Die tote Stadt," struggling with grief and obsession over his dead wife in the decaying city of Bruges.
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Paul is a central character in Terrence McNally’s play "The Lisbon Traviata," a darkly comic drama about friendship, obsession, and opera.
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Paul is the charismatic young con artist at the center of the play and film "Six Degrees of Separation," whose deception exposes themes of class, connection, and identity among wealthy New Yorkers.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.