Paulson
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Paulson is a surname most prominently associated with American actress Sarah Paulson, known for her versatile roles in film and television.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paulson canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9582228 — 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: Paulson Context triple: [Sarah Paulson, familyName, Paulson]
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A.
Henry Paulson
Henry Paulson is an American banker and former U.S. Treasury Secretary best known for leading the government’s response to the 2008 financial crisis and for his prominent work in environmental conservation.
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B.
John A. Paulson
John A. Paulson is an American billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist known for his hugely profitable bet against the U.S. housing market before the 2008 financial crisis.
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C.
Paulson & Co.
Paulson & Co. is a New York-based hedge fund firm best known for its highly profitable bets against the U.S. subprime mortgage market during the 2007–2008 financial crisis.
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D.
George Soros
George Soros is a Hungarian-American billionaire investor and philanthropist known for his successful hedge fund management, his role in major currency speculation events, and his extensive support for liberal democratic and human rights causes worldwide.
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E.
Michael Burry
Michael Burry is an American investor and hedge fund manager best known for predicting and profiting from the U.S. housing market collapse before the 2008 financial crisis.
- 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: Paulson Target entity description: Paulson is a surname most prominently associated with American actress Sarah Paulson, known for her versatile roles in film and television.
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A.
Henry Paulson
Henry Paulson is an American banker and former U.S. Treasury Secretary best known for leading the government’s response to the 2008 financial crisis and for his prominent work in environmental conservation.
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B.
John A. Paulson
John A. Paulson is an American billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist known for his hugely profitable bet against the U.S. housing market before the 2008 financial crisis.
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C.
Paulson & Co.
Paulson & Co. is a New York-based hedge fund firm best known for its highly profitable bets against the U.S. subprime mortgage market during the 2007–2008 financial crisis.
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D.
George Soros
George Soros is a Hungarian-American billionaire investor and philanthropist known for his successful hedge fund management, his role in major currency speculation events, and his extensive support for liberal democratic and human rights causes worldwide.
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E.
Michael Burry
Michael Burry is an American investor and hedge fund manager best known for predicting and profiting from the U.S. housing market collapse before the 2008 financial crisis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Golden Globe Award
ⓘ
Primetime Emmy Award ⓘ
linked to:
Primetime Emmy Awards
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalMeaning | son of Paul ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Paulson ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Sarah ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
English
ⓘ
Scandinavian languages ⓘ
linked to:
North Germanic languages
|
| hasNotableBearer |
Andrew Paulson
ⓘ
Bjorn Paulson ⓘ David Paulson ⓘ Henry Paulson ⓘ Peter F. Paulson ⓘ Sarah Paulson ⓘ Wilbur Paulson ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Paulsen
ⓘ
Poulson ⓘ |
| notableWork |
12 Years a Slave
ⓘ
American Horror Story ⓘ Carol ⓘ Ocean's 8 ⓘ The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story ⓘ |
| occupation |
film actress
ⓘ
government official ⓘ investment banker ⓘ stage actress ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
United States Secretary of the Treasury
ⓘ
linked to:
Secretary of the Treasury
|
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: Paulson Description of subject: Paulson is a surname most prominently associated with American actress Sarah Paulson, known for her versatile roles in film and television.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.