Paul King
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Paul King is a British filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing the critically acclaimed Paddington films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul King canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2926709 — 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 King Context triple: [Paddington 2, director, Paul King]
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A.
Phil Lord
Phil Lord is an American filmmaker, writer, and producer best known for his inventive, comedic work on projects like The Lego Movie and the 21 Jump Street and Spider-Verse films.
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B.
Michael Arndt
Michael Arndt is an Academy Award–winning American screenwriter known for acclaimed films such as Little Miss Sunshine and Toy Story 3.
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C.
Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Jordan Vogt-Roberts is an American film director best known for helming the 2017 blockbuster monster movie "Kong: Skull Island."
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D.
Peter Hedges
Peter Hedges is an American novelist, playwright, and filmmaker best known for writing the novel and screenplay for "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" and directing films such as "Pieces of April" and "Dan in Real Life."
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E.
Richard Ayoade
Richard Ayoade is a British actor, comedian, writer, and director best known for his role in "The IT Crowd" and his distinctive deadpan comedic style.
- 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 King Target entity description: Paul King is a British filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing the critically acclaimed Paddington films.
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A.
Phil Lord
Phil Lord is an American filmmaker, writer, and producer best known for his inventive, comedic work on projects like The Lego Movie and the 21 Jump Street and Spider-Verse films.
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B.
Michael Arndt
Michael Arndt is an Academy Award–winning American screenwriter known for acclaimed films such as Little Miss Sunshine and Toy Story 3.
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C.
Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Jordan Vogt-Roberts is an American film director best known for helming the 2017 blockbuster monster movie "Kong: Skull Island."
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D.
Peter Hedges
Peter Hedges is an American novelist, playwright, and filmmaker best known for writing the novel and screenplay for "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" and directing films such as "Pieces of April" and "Dan in Real Life."
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E.
Richard Ayoade
Richard Ayoade is a British actor, comedian, writer, and director best known for his role in "The IT Crowd" and his distinctive deadpan comedic style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
ⓘ
film director ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film industry
ⓘ
television industry ⓘ |
| almaMater |
University of Cambridge
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linked to:
Cambridge University
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| awardReceived |
BAFTA Children’s Award
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linked to:
BAFTA Children’s Awards
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| basedIn | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| birthPlace | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| directed |
Bunny and the Bull
ⓘ
Paddington ⓘ
linked to:
Paddington (2014 film)
Paddington 2 ⓘ Paddington in Peru ⓘ The Mighty Boosh (TV series) ⓘ
linked to:
The Mighty Boosh
|
| educatedAt |
St Catharine's College, Cambridge
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linked to:
St Catharine’s College, Cambridge
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| fieldOfWork |
filmmaking
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screenwriting ⓘ television direction ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
family film ⓘ |
| influencedWork | modern British family films ⓘ |
| knownFor | directing the Paddington film series ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Footlights ⓘ |
| name | Paul King ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
ⓘ
BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film ⓘ
linked to:
BAFTA Award for Best Film
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| notableCollaboration | Paddington films with producer David Heyman ⓘ |
| notableStyle | family-friendly comedy ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Paddington
ⓘ
linked to:
Paddington (2014 film)
Paddington 2 ⓘ Paddington in Peru ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| screenwriterOf |
Bunny and the Bull
ⓘ
Paddington ⓘ
linked to:
Paddington (2014 film)
Paddington 2 ⓘ Paddington in Peru ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London
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linked to:
London, England
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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 King Description of subject: Paul King is a British filmmaker and screenwriter best known for directing the critically acclaimed Paddington films.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.