Moses Pray
E519931
Moses Pray is a charmingly roguish Bible salesman and con man who becomes the reluctant guardian and partner-in-crime of a young girl in the film and novel "Paper Moon."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Moses Pray canonical | 3 |
| Moses Pray (novel character) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5433567 — 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: Moses Pray Context triple: [Paper Moon, character, Moses Pray]
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A.
Moses King
Moses King was an American publisher and editor best known for producing popular guidebooks and illustrated reference works in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Moses
Moses is a central prophet and leader in the Hebrew Bible, traditionally credited with leading the Israelites out of Egypt and receiving the Ten Commandments from God.
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C.
Moses Martin
Moses Martin is the son of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin.
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D.
Yehoshua Kenaz
Yehoshua Kenaz was a prominent Israeli novelist and translator known for his psychologically rich, realist depictions of Israeli society and military life.
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E.
Moses Taylor
Moses Taylor was a prominent 19th-century American merchant, banker, and railroad executive who became one of the wealthiest men of his era.
- 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: Moses Pray Target entity description: Moses Pray is a charmingly roguish Bible salesman and con man who becomes the reluctant guardian and partner-in-crime of a young girl in the film and novel "Paper Moon."
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A.
Moses King
Moses King was an American publisher and editor best known for producing popular guidebooks and illustrated reference works in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Moses
Moses is a central prophet and leader in the Hebrew Bible, traditionally credited with leading the Israelites out of Egypt and receiving the Ten Commandments from God.
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C.
Moses Martin
Moses Martin is the son of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin.
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D.
Yehoshua Kenaz
Yehoshua Kenaz was a prominent Israeli novelist and translator known for his psychologically rich, realist depictions of Israeli society and military life.
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E.
Moses Taylor
Moses Taylor was a prominent 19th-century American merchant, banker, and railroad executive who became one of the wealthiest men of his era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Addie Pray (novel)
ⓘ
Paper Moon (film) ⓘ
linked to:
Paper Moon
|
| basedOn |
Moses Pray (novel character)
ⓘ
linked to:
Moses Pray
|
| characterIn |
Addie Pray (1971 novel)
ⓘ
Paper Moon (1973 film) ⓘ
linked to:
Paper Moon
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | Joe David Brown ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Paper Moon universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Paper Moon
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | comedy-drama ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipWith |
Addie Loggins
ⓘ
linked to:
Addie
|
| medium |
film
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | co-protagonist of Paper Moon ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
charming
ⓘ
fast-talking ⓘ opportunistic ⓘ roguish ⓘ |
| occupation |
Bible salesman
ⓘ
con man ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Ryan O’Neal
ⓘ
linked to:
Ryan O'Neal
|
| role |
partner-in-crime of Addie Loggins
ⓘ
reluctant guardian of Addie Loggins ⓘ |
| setting |
Great Depression-era American Midwest
ⓘ
linked to:
Dust Bowl migrants
|
| usesMethod |
fraudulent Bible sales
ⓘ
small-time cons ⓘ |
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: Moses Pray Description of subject: Moses Pray is a charmingly roguish Bible salesman and con man who becomes the reluctant guardian and partner-in-crime of a young girl in the film and novel "Paper Moon."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Moses Pray