Paul Plante
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Paul Plante is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League during the 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul Plante canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6318389 — 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 Plante Context triple: [Plante, hasNotableBearer, Paul Plante]
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A.
Oscar Plante
Oscar Plante is a notable individual who carries the surname Plante, recognized enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the name.
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B.
Alfred Plante
Alfred Plante is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Plante.
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C.
Camille Plante
Camille Plante is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Plante.
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D.
Louis Dombrowski
Louis Dombrowski is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Dombrowski.
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E.
Charles Daoust
Charles Daoust was a 19th-century Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician from Quebec associated with the radical liberal Parti rouge movement.
- 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 Plante Target entity description: Paul Plante is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League during the 1990s.
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A.
Oscar Plante
Oscar Plante is a notable individual who carries the surname Plante, recognized enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the name.
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B.
Alfred Plante
Alfred Plante is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Plante.
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C.
Camille Plante
Camille Plante is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Plante.
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D.
Louis Dombrowski
Louis Dombrowski is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Dombrowski.
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E.
Charles Daoust
Charles Daoust was a 19th-century Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician from Quebec associated with the radical liberal Parti rouge movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canadian ice hockey defenceman
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human ⓘ ice hockey player ⓘ |
| activeInDecade | 1990s ⓘ |
| careerStart | 1990s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| leagueParticipatedIn | National Hockey League ⓘ |
| occupation | ice hockey player ⓘ |
| playedIn | National Hockey League ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | defenceman ⓘ |
| sport | ice hockey ⓘ |
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 Plante Description of subject: Paul Plante is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League during the 1990s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.