Paul Lister
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Paul Lister is a film producer known for his work on the satirical war comedy "The Men Who Stare at Goats."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul Lister canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10394935 — 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 Lister Context triple: [The Men Who Stare at Goats (film), producer, Paul Lister]
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A.
William Pritchard
William Pritchard is a Canadian municipal politician known for serving as the mayor of Burnaby, British Columbia.
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B.
Andrew Lapham
Andrew Lapham is a Canadian businessman known for his marriage to politician Caroline Mulroney and his work in finance and private equity.
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C.
Lawrence Fassett
Lawrence Fassett is a manipulative CIA operative who orchestrates a deadly surveillance scheme in Robert Ludlum’s thriller "The Osterman Weekend."
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D.
Charles Fergusson
Charles Fergusson was a senior British Army officer and general who played a prominent command role on the Western Front during World War I.
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E.
Charles Pritchard
Charles Pritchard was a 19th-century British astronomer and clergyman known for his pioneering work in stellar photometry and his influential role in developing observational astronomy at Oxford.
- 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 Lister Target entity description: Paul Lister is a film producer known for his work on the satirical war comedy "The Men Who Stare at Goats."
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A.
William Pritchard
William Pritchard is a Canadian municipal politician known for serving as the mayor of Burnaby, British Columbia.
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B.
Andrew Lapham
Andrew Lapham is a Canadian businessman known for his marriage to politician Caroline Mulroney and his work in finance and private equity.
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C.
Lawrence Fassett
Lawrence Fassett is a manipulative CIA operative who orchestrates a deadly surveillance scheme in Robert Ludlum’s thriller "The Osterman Weekend."
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D.
Charles Fergusson
Charles Fergusson was a senior British Army officer and general who played a prominent command role on the Western Front during World War I.
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E.
Charles Pritchard
Charles Pritchard was a 19th-century British astronomer and clergyman known for his pioneering work in stellar photometry and his influential role in developing observational astronomy at Oxford.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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film producer ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| genre | satirical war comedy ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Men Who Stare at Goats
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linked to:
The Men Who Stare at Goats (book)
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| occupation | film producer ⓘ |
| workedOn |
The Men Who Stare at Goats
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linked to:
The Men Who Stare at Goats (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 Lister Description of subject: Paul Lister is a film producer known for his work on the satirical war comedy "The Men Who Stare at Goats."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.