Paul Wylie
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Paul Wylie is an American figure skater best known for winning the silver medal at the 1992 Winter Olympics and later becoming a prominent professional show skater and commentator.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul Wylie canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8270987 — 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 Wylie Context triple: [Stars on Ice, performer, Paul Wylie]
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A.
Ian Ward
Ian Ward is a personal name shared by several notable individuals, including professionals in fields such as sports, academia, and the arts.
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B.
Paul Duguid
Paul Duguid is a scholar of information studies and co-author of the influential book "The Social Life of Information" with John Seely Brown.
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C.
Paul Ferroll
Paul Ferroll is a mid-19th-century psychological crime novel by Caroline Clive, notable for its early and unconventional portrayal of a seemingly respectable man who has committed murder.
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D.
Eric Rattray
Eric Rattray is a film producer best known for his work on the fantasy movie "Labyrinth."
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E.
David Ewart
David Ewart was a prominent early 20th-century Canadian architect best known for designing major federal buildings in Ottawa, including landmark public institutions.
- 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 Wylie Target entity description: Paul Wylie is an American figure skater best known for winning the silver medal at the 1992 Winter Olympics and later becoming a prominent professional show skater and commentator.
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A.
Ian Ward
Ian Ward is a personal name shared by several notable individuals, including professionals in fields such as sports, academia, and the arts.
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B.
Paul Duguid
Paul Duguid is a scholar of information studies and co-author of the influential book "The Social Life of Information" with John Seely Brown.
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C.
Paul Ferroll
Paul Ferroll is a mid-19th-century psychological crime novel by Caroline Clive, notable for its early and unconventional portrayal of a seemingly respectable man who has committed murder.
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D.
Eric Rattray
Eric Rattray is a film producer best known for his work on the fantasy movie "Labyrinth."
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E.
David Ewart
David Ewart was a prominent early 20th-century Canadian architect best known for designing major federal buildings in Ottawa, including landmark public institutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Olympic silver medalist
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figure skater ⓘ human ⓘ |
| competitionClass | men's singles ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| discipline | single skating ⓘ |
| familyName | Wylie ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
professional figure skating shows
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sports broadcasting ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Paul ⓘ |
| hasWon | Olympic medal in figure skating ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medal | silver medal at the 1992 Winter Olympics ⓘ |
| name | Paul Wylie ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | Olympic silver medal in figure skating ⓘ |
| notableFor | winning the silver medal in men's singles figure skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics ⓘ |
| occupation |
figure skater
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professional show skater ⓘ sports commentator ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
1991 World Figure Skating Championships
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1992 Winter Olympics ⓘ |
| performedIn | professional ice shows ⓘ |
| representedCountry | United States of America ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| role | television commentator for figure skating ⓘ |
| sport | figure skating ⓘ |
| turnedProfessional | 1992 ⓘ |
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 Wylie Description of subject: Paul Wylie is an American figure skater best known for winning the silver medal at the 1992 Winter Olympics and later becoming a prominent professional show skater and commentator.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.