Paul
E458813
Paul is a laid-back, charming sperm donor whose unexpected involvement with his biological children disrupts a lesbian couple’s family dynamic in the film "The Kids Are All Right."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4642922 — 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 Context triple: [The Kids Are All Right, character, Paul]
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A.
Paul
Paul is a masculine given name of Latin origin, widely used in many Western and Christian-influenced cultures.
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B.
Paul
Paul is the middle-aged American widower portrayed by Marlon Brando in the controversial 1972 film "Last Tango in Paris."
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C.
Paulus
Paulus was an influential Roman jurist whose legal writings significantly shaped later compilations of Roman law.
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D.
Apostle Paul
Apostle Paul was an early Christian missionary and theologian whose letters form a significant portion of the New Testament and profoundly shaped Christian doctrine.
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E.
Theophilus
Theophilus was a prominent 6th-century Byzantine jurist and legal scholar who helped draft and interpret Emperor Justinian I’s codification of Roman law.
- 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 Target entity description: Paul is a laid-back, charming sperm donor whose unexpected involvement with his biological children disrupts a lesbian couple’s family dynamic in the film "The Kids Are All Right."
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A.
Paul
Paul is a masculine given name of Latin origin, widely used in many Western and Christian-influenced cultures.
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B.
Paul
Paul is the middle-aged American widower portrayed by Marlon Brando in the controversial 1972 film "Last Tango in Paris."
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C.
Paulus
Paulus was an influential Roman jurist whose legal writings significantly shaped later compilations of Roman law.
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D.
Apostle Paul
Apostle Paul was an early Christian missionary and theologian whose letters form a significant portion of the New Testament and profoundly shaped Christian doctrine.
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E.
Theophilus
Theophilus was a prominent 6th-century Byzantine jurist and legal scholar who helped draft and interpret Emperor Justinian I’s codification of Roman law.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Kids Are All Right ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | comedy-drama film ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy |
Lisa Cholodenko
ⓘ
Stuart Blumberg ⓘ |
| disrupts | family dynamic of Nic and Jules ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
The Kids Are All Right (2010 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Kids Are All Right
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasBiologicalChild |
Joni
ⓘ
Laser ⓘ |
| hasBiologicalChildWith |
Jules
ⓘ
Nic ⓘ |
| involvedIn | conflict between Nic and Jules ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | supporting character ⓘ |
| occupation | sperm donor ⓘ |
| partOf | The Kids Are All Right narrative ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
charming
ⓘ
laid-back ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Mark Ruffalo ⓘ |
| relatedWork | LGBT-related film ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: Paul is a laid-back, charming sperm donor whose unexpected involvement with his biological children disrupts a lesbian couple’s family dynamic in the film "The Kids Are All Right."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.