Paul Richard
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Paul Richard was a French lawyer, politician, and spiritual seeker known for his association with Sri Aurobindo and marriage to Mirra Alfassa, later revered as "The Mother."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul Richard canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4516284 — 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 Richard Context triple: [The Mother (Mirra Alfassa), spouse, Paul Richard]
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A.
Paul Christman
Paul Christman was an American football quarterback who became a prominent television sportscaster in the 1950s and 1960s.
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B.
Peter Franklin
Peter Franklin was one of Benjamin Franklin’s lesser-known siblings, a member of the large Franklin family in colonial New England.
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C.
Paul Mann
Paul Mann was a Canadian-born character actor best known for his stage and film work in mid-20th-century productions, including prominent roles in classic musicals and dramas.
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D.
Paul Riser
Paul Riser is an American Motown trombonist and arranger best known for crafting the lush orchestral arrangements on many of Stevie Wonder’s classic recordings.
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E.
Charles Pritchard
Charles Pritchard was a 19th-century British astronomer and clergyman known for his pioneering work in stellar photometry and his influential role in developing observational astronomy at Oxford.
- 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 Richard Target entity description: Paul Richard was a French lawyer, politician, and spiritual seeker known for his association with Sri Aurobindo and marriage to Mirra Alfassa, later revered as "The Mother."
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A.
Paul Christman
Paul Christman was an American football quarterback who became a prominent television sportscaster in the 1950s and 1960s.
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B.
Peter Franklin
Peter Franklin was one of Benjamin Franklin’s lesser-known siblings, a member of the large Franklin family in colonial New England.
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C.
Paul Mann
Paul Mann was a Canadian-born character actor best known for his stage and film work in mid-20th-century productions, including prominent roles in classic musicals and dramas.
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D.
Paul Riser
Paul Riser is an American Motown trombonist and arranger best known for crafting the lush orchestral arrangements on many of Stevie Wonder’s classic recordings.
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E.
Charles Pritchard
Charles Pritchard was a 19th-century British astronomer and clergyman known for his pioneering work in stellar photometry and his influential role in developing observational astronomy at Oxford.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French lawyer
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French politician ⓘ human ⓘ spiritual leader ⓘ spiritual seeker ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | The Mother ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Sri Aurobindo ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasSpiritualInterestIn |
Eastern spirituality
ⓘ
Hindu philosophy ⓘ |
| influenced | early spiritual life of Mirra Alfassa ⓘ |
| knownFor | early support of Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | French ⓘ |
| marriageStartWithMirraAlfassa | 1911 ⓘ |
| movement |
mysticism
ⓘ
spiritualism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with Sri Aurobindo
ⓘ
marriage to Mirra Alfassa ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
politician ⓘ spiritual teacher ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
France
ⓘ
Pondicherry ⓘ
linked to:
Puducherry
|
| politicalActivity | French politics ⓘ |
| religiousOrPhilosophicalAssociation |
Integral Yoga milieu
ⓘ
Sri Aurobindo ⓘ |
| spouse |
Mirra Alfassa
ⓘ
linked to:
The Mother (Mirra Alfassa)
Paul Richard ⓘ |
| traveledWith |
Mirra Alfassa
ⓘ
linked to:
The Mother (Mirra Alfassa)
|
| visited | Pondicherry with Mirra Alfassa ⓘ |
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 Richard Description of subject: Paul Richard was a French lawyer, politician, and spiritual seeker known for his association with Sri Aurobindo and marriage to Mirra Alfassa, later revered as "The Mother."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.