Paul Ekman
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Paul Ekman is an American psychologist renowned for his pioneering research on facial expressions and emotions, particularly in the study of microexpressions and deception detection.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul Ekman canonical | 18 |
| Paul Ekman International | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1749555 — 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 Ekman Context triple: [Lie to Me, characterBasedOn, Paul Ekman]
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A.
Peter Salovey
Peter Salovey is an American social psychologist and academic who served as president of Yale University.
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B.
James S. Langer
James S. Langer is an American theoretical physicist known for his work on phase transitions, pattern formation, and the dynamics of nonequilibrium systems.
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C.
Joshua Schachter
Joshua Schachter is an American entrepreneur and software engineer best known for creating the social bookmarking service Delicious, which helped popularize tagging on the web.
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D.
Jan D. Achenbach
Jan D. Achenbach was a prominent engineer and applied mechanician known for his pioneering contributions to wave propagation in solids, fracture mechanics, and nondestructive evaluation.
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E.
John Tooby
John Tooby is an American anthropologist and one of the founders of evolutionary psychology, known for his influential work on the evolutionary basis of the human mind and behavior.
- 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 Ekman Target entity description: Paul Ekman is an American psychologist renowned for his pioneering research on facial expressions and emotions, particularly in the study of microexpressions and deception detection.
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A.
Peter Salovey
Peter Salovey is an American social psychologist and academic who served as president of Yale University.
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B.
James S. Langer
James S. Langer is an American theoretical physicist known for his work on phase transitions, pattern formation, and the dynamics of nonequilibrium systems.
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C.
Joshua Schachter
Joshua Schachter is an American entrepreneur and software engineer best known for creating the social bookmarking service Delicious, which helped popularize tagging on the web.
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D.
Jan D. Achenbach
Jan D. Achenbach was a prominent engineer and applied mechanician known for his pioneering contributions to wave propagation in solids, fracture mechanics, and nondestructive evaluation.
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E.
John Tooby
John Tooby is an American anthropologist and one of the founders of evolutionary psychology, known for his influential work on the evolutionary basis of the human mind and behavior.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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author ⓘ human ⓘ psychologist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award
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MacArthur Fellowship ⓘ William James Fellow Award ⓘ |
| coDevelopedWith | Wallace V. Friesen ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1934 ⓘ |
| developed | Facial Action Coding System ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Adelphi University
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New York University ⓘ University of Chicago ⓘ |
| employer | University of California, San Francisco ⓘ |
| familyName | Ekman ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
deception detection
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emotion research ⓘ facial expressions ⓘ microexpressions ⓘ nonverbal communication ⓘ psychology ⓘ |
| founded |
Paul Ekman Group
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Paul Ekman International ⓘ
linked to:
Paul Ekman
|
| givenName | Paul ⓘ |
| hasWritten |
Emotion in the Human Face
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Emotions Revealed ⓘ Telling Lies ⓘ Unmasking the Face ⓘ What the Face Reveals ⓘ |
| influenced |
emotion psychology
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forensic psychology ⓘ security and law-enforcement interviewing practices ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Silvan Tomkins ⓘ |
| name | Paul Ekman ⓘ |
| notableFor |
development of the Facial Action Coding System
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research on facial expressions of emotion ⓘ research on universality of emotions ⓘ work on lie detection ⓘ work on microexpressions ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
microexpressions as brief involuntary facial expressions
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universality of basic emotions ⓘ |
| occupation |
professor
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psychologist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of psychology at the University of California, San Francisco ⓘ |
| researchFocus |
cross-cultural studies of emotion
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nonverbal behavior ⓘ physiology of emotion ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
TV series Lie to Me (inspiration for main character)
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linked to:
Lie to Me
|
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 Ekman Description of subject: Paul Ekman is an American psychologist renowned for his pioneering research on facial expressions and emotions, particularly in the study of microexpressions and deception detection.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Paul Ekman