Paul Stamets
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Paul Stamets is an American mycologist, author, and advocate for the study and use of fungi in medicine, ecology, and environmental restoration.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul Stamets canonical | 17 |
| Paul Stamets (real-life mycologist) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2138214 — 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 Stamets Context triple: [Dominic Monaghan, characterPortrayed, Paul Stamets]
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A.
Paul Grilley
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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B.
Robert Krasny
Robert Krasny is an American applied mathematician known for his work in fluid dynamics and vortex methods.
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C.
Randy Alpert
Randy Alpert is an American songwriter and producer best known for co-writing the hit song "Hypnotize," famously sampled by The Notorious B.I.G.
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D.
Tim Smit
Tim Smit is a Dutch-born British businessman and conservationist best known as the co-founder and driving force behind Cornwall’s Eden Project.
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E.
Daniel Robbins
Daniel Robbins is an American software developer best known as the founder and chief architect of the Gentoo Linux distribution.
- 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 Stamets Target entity description: Paul Stamets is an American mycologist, author, and advocate for the study and use of fungi in medicine, ecology, and environmental restoration.
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A.
Paul Grilley
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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B.
Robert Krasny
Robert Krasny is an American applied mathematician known for his work in fluid dynamics and vortex methods.
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C.
Randy Alpert
Randy Alpert is an American songwriter and producer best known for co-writing the hit song "Hypnotize," famously sampled by The Notorious B.I.G.
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D.
Tim Smit
Tim Smit is a Dutch-born British businessman and conservationist best known as the co-founder and driving force behind Cornwall’s Eden Project.
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E.
Daniel Robbins
Daniel Robbins is an American software developer best known as the founder and chief architect of the Gentoo Linux distribution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ mycologist ⓘ science communicator ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
The Evergreen State College
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linked to:
Evergreen State College
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| familyName | Stamets ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
ecology
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environmental restoration ⓘ fungi-based medicine ⓘ mycology ⓘ |
| founded | Fungi Perfecti ⓘ |
| givenName | Paul ⓘ |
| hasEmployer | Fungi Perfecti ⓘ |
| hasPublishedWork |
Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms
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Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World ⓘ Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World ⓘ The Mushroom Cultivator ⓘ |
| hasResearchInterest |
fungal biodiversity
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medicinal properties of fungi ⓘ mycofiltration ⓘ mycoforestry ⓘ mycoremediation ⓘ psilocybin mushrooms ⓘ |
| hasRole |
advocate for the study of fungi in medicine
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advocate for the use of fungi in ecology ⓘ advocate for the use of fungi in environmental restoration ⓘ |
| industry |
mushroom cultivation
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nutraceuticals ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy of fungi for environmental restoration
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popularizing mycoremediation ⓘ research on medicinal mushrooms ⓘ work on psilocybin-containing mushrooms ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Paul Stamets ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms
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Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World ⓘ Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World ⓘ The Mushroom Cultivator ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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businessperson ⓘ lecturer ⓘ mycologist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| positionHeld | founder of Fungi Perfecti ⓘ |
| residence |
Washington State
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linked to:
Washington State, United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| speaksLanguage | English ⓘ |
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 Stamets Description of subject: Paul Stamets is an American mycologist, author, and advocate for the study and use of fungi in medicine, ecology, and environmental restoration.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Paul Stamets