Paul McPhail
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Paul McPhail is known primarily as the husband of British contemporary painter Jenny Saville, a leading figure in the Young British Artists movement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul McPhail canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10949561 — 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 McPhail Context triple: [Jenny Saville, spouse, Paul McPhail]
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A.
Douglas McPhail
Douglas McPhail was an American singer and actor active in the late 1930s and early 1940s, known for his musical film roles at MGM.
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B.
Paul McEwan
Paul McEwan is a New Zealand former cricketer who played as a middle-order batsman for Canterbury and represented New Zealand in One Day Internationals in the early 1980s.
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C.
John McEwan
John McEwan is a relatively obscure individual whose primary distinguishing feature is sharing the McEwan surname rather than broad public recognition.
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D.
Alan McMichael
Alan McMichael is a key protagonist in the gothic romance horror film "Crimson Peak," portrayed as a loyal and principled young man who becomes entangled in the dark secrets surrounding the Sharpe family.
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E.
Geoffrey McGivern
Geoffrey McGivern is a British actor best known for originating the role of Ford Prefect in the radio and early television adaptations of Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
- 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 McPhail Target entity description: Paul McPhail is known primarily as the husband of British contemporary painter Jenny Saville, a leading figure in the Young British Artists movement.
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A.
Douglas McPhail
Douglas McPhail was an American singer and actor active in the late 1930s and early 1940s, known for his musical film roles at MGM.
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B.
Paul McEwan
Paul McEwan is a New Zealand former cricketer who played as a middle-order batsman for Canterbury and represented New Zealand in One Day Internationals in the early 1980s.
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C.
John McEwan
John McEwan is a relatively obscure individual whose primary distinguishing feature is sharing the McEwan surname rather than broad public recognition.
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D.
Alan McMichael
Alan McMichael is a key protagonist in the gothic romance horror film "Crimson Peak," portrayed as a loyal and principled young man who becomes entangled in the dark secrets surrounding the Sharpe family.
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E.
Geoffrey McGivern
Geoffrey McGivern is a British actor best known for originating the role of Ford Prefect in the radio and early television adaptations of Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| movement | Young British Artists ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the husband of Jenny Saville ⓘ |
| occupation | painter ⓘ |
| spouse |
Jenny Saville
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Paul McPhail ⓘ |
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 McPhail Description of subject: Paul McPhail is known primarily as the husband of British contemporary painter Jenny Saville, a leading figure in the Young British Artists movement.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Paul McPhail