Paul Grilley
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Paul Grilley is a yoga teacher best known for popularizing Yin Yoga and for his influential work on anatomy and skeletal variation in yoga practice.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul Grilley canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1559952 — 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 Grilley Context triple: [Patti Davis, spouse, Paul Grilley]
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A.
Ken Morris
Ken Morris is a technology entrepreneur best known as a founder of the enterprise software company PeopleSoft.
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B.
Israel Regardie
Israel Regardie was a British occultist, writer, and ceremonial magician best known for preserving and publishing the teachings of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and popularizing modern Hermetic Qabalah.
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C.
George Dern
George Dern was an American politician who served as governor of Utah and later as U.S. Secretary of War under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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D.
Dan Jewett
Dan Jewett is an American science teacher known for his brief marriage to billionaire philanthropist and novelist MacKenzie Scott.
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E.
Martin J. Hillenbrand
Martin J. Hillenbrand was an American career diplomat who held several key Cold War-era posts, including serving as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and later to the Federal Republic of Germany.
- 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 Grilley Target entity description: Paul Grilley is a yoga teacher best known for popularizing Yin Yoga and for his influential work on anatomy and skeletal variation in yoga practice.
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A.
Ken Morris
Ken Morris is a technology entrepreneur best known as a founder of the enterprise software company PeopleSoft.
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B.
Israel Regardie
Israel Regardie was a British occultist, writer, and ceremonial magician best known for preserving and publishing the teachings of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and popularizing modern Hermetic Qabalah.
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C.
George Dern
George Dern was an American politician who served as governor of Utah and later as U.S. Secretary of War under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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D.
Dan Jewett
Dan Jewett is an American science teacher known for his brief marriage to billionaire philanthropist and novelist MacKenzie Scott.
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E.
Martin J. Hillenbrand
Martin J. Hillenbrand was an American career diplomat who held several key Cold War-era posts, including serving as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and later to the Federal Republic of Germany.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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yoga teacher ⓘ |
| advocates |
adapting poses to the student’s skeleton
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using anatomical principles in yoga teaching ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Yin Yoga community
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yoga anatomy education ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
integration of anatomy into yoga teacher trainings
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popularization of Yin Yoga worldwide ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
differences in bone shape and proportion
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long-held, passive stretches in Yin Yoga ⓘ stress on connective tissues rather than muscles in Yin practice ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
anatomy education for yoga
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meditation instruction ⓘ yoga ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
functional range of motion
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individualized alignment in yoga ⓘ skeletal variation ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
functional alignment instead of aesthetic alignment
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target areas instead of specific shapes in poses ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of Yin Yoga as a distinct style
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many contemporary Yin Yoga teachers ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Yin Yoga
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anatomy-based approach to asana alignment ⓘ emphasis on skeletal variation in yoga practice ⓘ teaching functional anatomy for yoga ⓘ |
| occupation | yoga teacher ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| teaches |
Yin Yoga
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meditation ⓘ yoga anatomy ⓘ |
| views | Yin Yoga as complementary to more dynamic (Yang) practices ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Grilley Description of subject: Paul Grilley is a yoga teacher best known for popularizing Yin Yoga and for his influential work on anatomy and skeletal variation in yoga practice.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.