Paul Webb
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Paul Webb is a screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the historical drama film "Selma" (2014), which chronicles a pivotal chapter in the U.S. civil rights movement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul Webb canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T306209 — 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 Webb Context triple: [Selma (2014 film), screenwriter, Paul Webb]
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A.
Brian Pippard
Brian Pippard was a prominent British physicist known for his pioneering work in superconductivity and for serving as Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge.
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B.
John Brett
John Brett was a 19th-century British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, renowned for his highly detailed landscapes and maritime scenes.
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C.
Peter Sargeant
Peter Sargeant was a colonial-era jurist who served as a judge on the Court of Oyer and Terminer.
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D.
Geoff Petrie
Geoff Petrie is a former American professional basketball guard best known as an early star for the Portland Trail Blazers and later a longtime NBA executive.
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E.
Stephen Nicol
Stephen Nicol is a former Scottish professional footballer and versatile defender best known for his successful spell at Liverpool FC in the 1980s and early 1990s.
- 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 Webb Target entity description: Paul Webb is a screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the historical drama film "Selma" (2014), which chronicles a pivotal chapter in the U.S. civil rights movement.
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A.
Brian Pippard
Brian Pippard was a prominent British physicist known for his pioneering work in superconductivity and for serving as Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge.
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B.
John Brett
John Brett was a 19th-century British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, renowned for his highly detailed landscapes and maritime scenes.
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C.
Peter Sargeant
Peter Sargeant was a colonial-era jurist who served as a judge on the Court of Oyer and Terminer.
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D.
Geoff Petrie
Geoff Petrie is a former American professional basketball guard best known as an early star for the Portland Trail Blazers and later a longtime NBA executive.
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E.
Stephen Nicol
Stephen Nicol is a former Scottish professional footballer and versatile defender best known for his successful spell at Liverpool FC in the 1980s and early 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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historical drama film ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Original Song ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| director | Ava DuVernay ⓘ |
| distributor | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| genre |
biographical film
ⓘ
historical drama ⓘ |
| hasPart |
depiction of John Lewis
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depiction of Lyndon B. Johnson ⓘ depiction of Martin Luther King Jr. ⓘ |
| knownFor | writing the screenplay for the film "Selma" ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Selma to Montgomery marches
ⓘ
U.S. civil rights movement ⓘ voting rights in the United States ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Academy Award for Best Original Song
ⓘ
Academy Award for Best Picture ⓘ Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Selma
ⓘ
linked to:
Selma (2014 film)
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| occupation | screenwriter ⓘ |
| producer | Plan B Entertainment ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2014 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Paul Webb ⓘ |
| settingPlace |
Montgomery, Alabama
ⓘ
Selma, Alabama ⓘ |
| settingTime | 1965 ⓘ |
| work | Selma ⓘ |
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 Webb Description of subject: Paul Webb is a screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the historical drama film "Selma" (2014), which chronicles a pivotal chapter in the U.S. civil rights movement.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Paul Webb