de Paul
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De Paul is a French surname most notably associated with Saint Vincent de Paul, a 17th-century Catholic priest renowned for his charitable works and reforms.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3437683 — 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: de Paul Context triple: [Saint Vincent de Paul, familyName, de Paul]
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A.
Frank País
Frank País was a prominent Cuban revolutionary leader and urban organizer of the 26th of July Movement who played a key role in the struggle against the Batista dictatorship before being killed at a young age.
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B.
Cinco Paul
Cinco Paul is an American screenwriter and lyricist best known for co-writing popular animated films such as the Despicable Me series and Dr. Seuss adaptations.
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C.
Pablo Christiani
Pablo Christiani was a 13th-century Jewish convert to Christianity and Dominican friar known for leading anti-Jewish polemics, including the famous Disputation of Barcelona against Nachmanides.
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D.
de Jasso
de Jasso is the family name of Francis Xavier, the 16th-century Spanish Jesuit missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus.
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E.
Alfredo Keil
Alfredo Keil was a Portuguese composer and painter best known for writing the music of Portugal’s national anthem, "A Portuguesa."
- 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: de Paul Target entity description: De Paul is a French surname most notably associated with Saint Vincent de Paul, a 17th-century Catholic priest renowned for his charitable works and reforms.
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A.
Frank País
Frank País was a prominent Cuban revolutionary leader and urban organizer of the 26th of July Movement who played a key role in the struggle against the Batista dictatorship before being killed at a young age.
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B.
Cinco Paul
Cinco Paul is an American screenwriter and lyricist best known for co-writing popular animated films such as the Despicable Me series and Dr. Seuss adaptations.
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C.
Pablo Christiani
Pablo Christiani was a 13th-century Jewish convert to Christianity and Dominican friar known for leading anti-Jewish polemics, including the famous Disputation of Barcelona against Nachmanides.
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D.
de Jasso
de Jasso is the family name of Francis Xavier, the 16th-century Spanish Jesuit missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus.
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E.
Alfredo Keil
Alfredo Keil was a Portuguese composer and painter best known for writing the music of Portugal’s national anthem, "A Portuguesa."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Catholic priest
ⓘ
French-language surname ⓘ saint ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| category | Surnames of French origin ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 17th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1581 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1660 ⓘ |
| etymologyRelatedTo | Paul (given name) ⓘ |
| hasSurname | de Paul self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| knownFor |
charitable works
ⓘ
reforms in the Catholic Church ⓘ work with the poor ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | French ⓘ |
| notablyAssociatedWith |
Saint Vincent de Paul
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surface form:
Vincent de Paul
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| religion |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Catholicism
|
| usedAs | family name ⓘ |
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: de Paul Description of subject: De Paul is a French surname most notably associated with Saint Vincent de Paul, a 17th-century Catholic priest renowned for his charitable works and reforms.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
de Paula
subject surface form:
Vincent de Paul