Paul Wilson
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Paul Wilson is a Scottish musician best known as the bassist for the alternative rock band Snow Patrol.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul Wilson canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3930015 — 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 Wilson Context triple: [Snow Patrol, member, Paul Wilson]
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A.
Paul Caldwell Wilson
Paul Caldwell Wilson was the husband of Frances Perkins, the first female U.S. Secretary of Labor and a key architect of New Deal social policies.
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B.
John Applegate
John Applegate was a 19th-century American pioneer and explorer associated with the development of overland emigrant routes in the western United States.
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C.
David Hartnett
David Hartnett is a British civil servant best known for serving as the Permanent Secretary for Tax at HM Revenue and Customs, where he was the UK's top tax official.
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D.
Paul Bacon
Paul Bacon was an influential American graphic designer and illustrator renowned for pioneering the "big book" cover style for major 20th-century novels and jazz albums.
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E.
Rowan D. Wilson
Rowan D. Wilson is an American jurist who serves as the Chief Judge of New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, overseeing the state’s judiciary.
- 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 Wilson Target entity description: Paul Wilson is a Scottish musician best known as the bassist for the alternative rock band Snow Patrol.
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A.
Paul Caldwell Wilson
Paul Caldwell Wilson was the husband of Frances Perkins, the first female U.S. Secretary of Labor and a key architect of New Deal social policies.
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B.
John Applegate
John Applegate was a 19th-century American pioneer and explorer associated with the development of overland emigrant routes in the western United States.
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C.
David Hartnett
David Hartnett is a British civil servant best known for serving as the Permanent Secretary for Tax at HM Revenue and Customs, where he was the UK's top tax official.
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D.
Paul Bacon
Paul Bacon was an influential American graphic designer and illustrator renowned for pioneering the "big book" cover style for major 20th-century novels and jazz albums.
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E.
Rowan D. Wilson
Rowan D. Wilson is an American jurist who serves as the Chief Judge of New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, overseeing the state’s judiciary.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bassist
ⓘ
human ⓘ musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st century ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Snow Patrol ⓘ |
| associatedGenreWithBand |
alternative rock
ⓘ
indie rock ⓘ |
| basedIn | Scotland ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
indie rock ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass guitar
ⓘ
guitar ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Snow Patrol ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Hundred Million Suns (album)
ⓘ
linked to:
A Hundred Million Suns
Eyes Open (album) ⓘ
linked to:
Eyes Open
Fallen Empires (album) ⓘ
linked to:
Fallen Empires
Wildness (album) ⓘ
linked to:
Wildness (Deluxe Edition)
|
| occupation |
bassist
ⓘ
musician ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| playsRoleInBand | bass guitarist of Snow Patrol ⓘ |
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 Wilson Description of subject: Paul Wilson is a Scottish musician best known as the bassist for the alternative rock band Snow Patrol.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.