Joe Paulson
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Joe Paulson is a minor character in Stephen King’s science fiction–horror novel "The Tommyknockers," one of the residents of Haven affected by the town’s sinister alien influence.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joe Paulson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8242902 — 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: Joe Paulson Context triple: [The Tommyknockers, hasCharacter, Joe Paulson]
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A.
Keith Poulson
Keith Poulson is an American actor known for his work in independent films and for roles in offbeat, character-driven movies.
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B.
Marcus T. Paulk
Marcus T. Paulk is an American actor and rapper best known for his role as Myles Mitchell on the television sitcom "Moesha."
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C.
Greg DePaul
Greg DePaul is an American screenwriter and playwright best known for co-writing the romantic comedy film "Bride Wars."
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D.
Jeff Pehrson
Jeff Pehrson is an American singer-songwriter and harmony vocalist best known for his work with post-Grateful Dead band Furthur and the folk-rock duo Box Set.
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E.
Michael Potts
Michael Potts is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in projects like "The Wire," "True Detective," and various Broadway productions.
- 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: Joe Paulson Target entity description: Joe Paulson is a minor character in Stephen King’s science fiction–horror novel "The Tommyknockers," one of the residents of Haven affected by the town’s sinister alien influence.
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A.
Keith Poulson
Keith Poulson is an American actor known for his work in independent films and for roles in offbeat, character-driven movies.
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B.
Marcus T. Paulk
Marcus T. Paulk is an American actor and rapper best known for his role as Myles Mitchell on the television sitcom "Moesha."
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C.
Greg DePaul
Greg DePaul is an American screenwriter and playwright best known for co-writing the romantic comedy film "Bride Wars."
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D.
Jeff Pehrson
Jeff Pehrson is an American singer-songwriter and harmony vocalist best known for his work with post-Grateful Dead band Furthur and the folk-rock duo Box Set.
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E.
Michael Potts
Michael Potts is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in projects like "The Wire," "True Detective," and various Broadway productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Tommyknockers ⓘ |
| creator | Stephen King ⓘ |
| genre |
horror
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science fiction ⓘ |
| isAffectedBy | alien influence in Haven ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | minor character ⓘ |
| residence | Haven, Maine ⓘ |
| universe | Stephen King multiverse ⓘ |
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: Joe Paulson Description of subject: Joe Paulson is a minor character in Stephen King’s science fiction–horror novel "The Tommyknockers," one of the residents of Haven affected by the town’s sinister alien influence.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.