Paul
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Paul is the ill-fated, obsessive young boy in D. H. Lawrence’s short story “The Rocking-Horse Winner,” whose frantic quest to secure his family’s financial fortune drives the plot’s tragic climax.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12774304 — 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)
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Target entity: Paul Context triple: [The Rocking-Horse Winner, protagonist, Paul]
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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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Paul
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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Paul
Paul is a 2011 sci-fi comedy film about two British geeks who encounter a wisecracking alien during a road trip across the United States.
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Paul
Paul is a fictional character from Wallace Thurman's Harlem Renaissance novel "Infants of the Spring," which satirically portrays life in a bohemian Black artists' colony.
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Paul
Paul is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, known for its historic church and coastal setting near Penzance.
- 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 the ill-fated, obsessive young boy in D. H. Lawrence’s short story “The Rocking-Horse Winner,” whose frantic quest to secure his family’s financial fortune drives the plot’s tragic climax.
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Paul
Paul is the charismatic young con artist at the center of the play and film "Six Degrees of Separation," whose deception exposes themes of class, connection, and identity among wealthy New Yorkers.
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Paul
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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C.
Paul
Paul is a fictional character from Wallace Thurman's Harlem Renaissance novel "Infants of the Spring," which satirically portrays life in a bohemian Black artists' colony.
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Paul
Paul is a central character in Terrence McNally’s play "The Lisbon Traviata," a darkly comic drama about friendship, obsession, and opera.
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Paul
Paul is a central character in the psychological horror film "It Comes at Night," portrayed as a protective family man struggling to safeguard his loved ones amid a mysterious, apocalyptic threat.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| ability | supernatural knack for picking winning horses ⓘ |
| age | young boy ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Rocking-Horse Winner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | short story ⓘ |
| appearsInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| associatedActivity | riding a rocking-horse to divine winning racehorses ⓘ |
| associatedObject | rocking-horse ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | collapse after frenzied rocking-horse ride ⓘ |
| centralConflict | attempts to solve his family’s money problems through betting on horse races ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
anxious
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determined ⓘ obsessive ⓘ |
| createdBy | D. H. Lawrence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| emotionalState | haunted by the house’s whispering about needing more money ⓘ |
| familyRelation |
brother of unnamed sisters
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son of Hester ⓘ |
| fate | dies at the end of the story ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| motivation |
desire to please his mother
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desire to secure his family’s financial fortune ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | drives the plot’s tragic climax ⓘ |
| relationshipToMoney | believes luck will bring money GENERATED ⓘ |
| roleInWork | protagonist ⓘ |
| settingContext | upper-middle-class English household ⓘ |
| symbolicRole |
embodiment of the cost of material obsession
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sacrifice to his mother’s desire for wealth ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
greed
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materialism ⓘ parental neglect ⓘ the destructive pursuit of luck ⓘ |
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 the ill-fated, obsessive young boy in D. H. Lawrence’s short story “The Rocking-Horse Winner,” whose frantic quest to secure his family’s financial fortune drives the plot’s tragic climax.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.