Paul
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Paul is a family name most notably borne by Wolfgang Paul, the German physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6660445 — 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: [Wolfgang Paul, hasFamilyName, Paul]
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Paul
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
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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C.
Paul
Paul is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, known for its historic church and coastal setting near Penzance.
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D.
Paul
Paul is a character in the crime drama film "Never Die Alone," which follows the violent, intertwined lives of drug dealers and those around them.
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E.
Paul
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.
- 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 a family name most notably borne by Wolfgang Paul, the German physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics.
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Paul
Paul is a masculine given name of Latin origin, widely used in many Western and Christian-influenced cultures.
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B.
Paul
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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C.
Paul
Paul is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, known for its historic church and coastal setting near Penzance.
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D.
Paul
Paul is the middle-aged American widower portrayed by Marlon Brando in the controversial 1972 film "Last Tango in Paris."
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E.
Paul
Paul is a character in the crime drama film "Never Die Alone," which follows the violent, intertwined lives of drug dealers and those around them.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Nobel Prize in Physics ⓘ |
| categorizedAs |
English-language surname
ⓘ
French-language surname ⓘ German-language surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| derivedFromGivenName | Paul (given name) ⓘ |
| familyName | Paul ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | physics ⓘ |
| givenName | Wolfgang ⓘ |
| hasGenderAssociation | gender-neutral surname ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | Latin ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfUse |
Dutch
ⓘ
English ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ Scandinavian languages ⓘ |
| hasMeaning |
humble
ⓘ
small ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Paolo
ⓘ
Paulus ⓘ
linked to:
Apostle Paul
Pavel ⓘ Pohl ⓘ Powell ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Wolfgang Paul ⓘ |
| notableFor | development of the ion trap ⓘ |
| occupation | physicist ⓘ |
| usedAs | patronymic surname ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: Paul is a family name most notably borne by Wolfgang Paul, the German physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.