Kris Paronto

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Kris Paronto is a former U.S. Army Ranger and private security contractor best known for his role defending the American diplomatic compound during the 2012 Benghazi attack, as later depicted in the film "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi."

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Kris Paronto canonical 4

Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf author
human
military veteran
public speaker
appearedOn U.S. television news programs
basedIn United States of America
surface form: United States
coAuthor John Tiegen
Mark Geist
Mitchell Zuckoff
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
education attended college in the United States
employer Central Intelligence Agency contractor program
familyName Paronto
genre military non-fiction
givenName Kris
hasRole CIA security contractor in Benghazi
hasSocialMediaPresence Facebook
Instagram
Twitter, Inc.
surface form: Twitter
hasWebsite official personal website
militaryBranch United States Army
militaryRank Army Ranger
militaryUnit 75th Ranger Regiment
name Kris Paronto self-link
notableFor defending U.S. facilities during the 2012 Benghazi attack
notableWork book "13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi"
surface form: 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi
occupation United States Army Rangers
surface form: U.S. Army Ranger

author
motivational speaker
private security contractor
participantIn 2012 Benghazi attack
politicalAlignment conservative commentator
portrayedBy Pablo Schreiber
portrayedIn 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
serviceNumberOfDeployments multiple deployments to the Middle East
speaksAbout combat experience
leadership
resilience
subjectOf 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
workLocation Benghazi
surface form: Benghazi, Libya
writesAbout 2012 Benghazi attack
surface form: Benghazi attack

military service

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: Kris Paronto
Description of subject: Kris Paronto is a former U.S. Army Ranger and private security contractor best known for his role defending the American diplomatic compound during the 2012 Benghazi attack, as later depicted in the film "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi."

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Jack Silva basedOn Kris Paronto
Kris Paronto name Kris Paronto self-link
CIA Annex Security Team hasMember Kris Paronto