Paul
E265023
Paul is the middle-aged American widower portrayed by Marlon Brando in the controversial 1972 film "Last Tango in Paris."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2415203 — 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 Context triple: [Last Tango in Paris, mainCharacter, Paul]
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A.
Paul
Paul is a masculine given name of Latin origin, widely used in many Western and Christian-influenced cultures.
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B.
Paulus
Paulus was an influential Roman jurist whose legal writings significantly shaped later compilations of Roman law.
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C.
Apostle Paul
Apostle Paul was an early Christian missionary and theologian whose letters form a significant portion of the New Testament and profoundly shaped Christian doctrine.
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D.
Theophilus
Theophilus was a prominent 6th-century Byzantine jurist and legal scholar who helped draft and interpret Emperor Justinian I’s codification of Roman law.
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E.
Theophilus
Theophilus is the otherwise unknown individual addressed in the prefaces of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, likely a patron or symbolic “lover of God” to whom these New Testament works are dedicated.
- 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 middle-aged American widower portrayed by Marlon Brando in the controversial 1972 film "Last Tango in Paris."
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A.
Paul
Paul is a masculine given name of Latin origin, widely used in many Western and Christian-influenced cultures.
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B.
Paulus
Paulus was an influential Roman jurist whose legal writings significantly shaped later compilations of Roman law.
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C.
Apostle Paul
Apostle Paul was an early Christian missionary and theologian whose letters form a significant portion of the New Testament and profoundly shaped Christian doctrine.
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D.
Theophilus
Theophilus was a prominent 6th-century Byzantine jurist and legal scholar who helped draft and interpret Emperor Justinian I’s codification of Roman law.
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E.
Theophilus
Theophilus is the otherwise unknown individual addressed in the prefaces of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, likely a patron or symbolic “lover of God” to whom these New Testament works are dedicated.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| ageGroup | middle-aged ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Last Tango in Paris ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
alienation
ⓘ
mourning ⓘ sexuality ⓘ |
| characterArc | struggles to cope with his wife’s suicide ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | Bernardo Bertolucci ⓘ |
| directorOfWork | Bernardo Bertolucci ⓘ |
| emotionalState |
anger
ⓘ
despair ⓘ grief ⓘ |
| featuredInGenre |
erotic drama film
ⓘ
romantic drama film ⓘ |
| filmCountryOfOrigin |
France
ⓘ
Italy ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| filmReleaseYear | 1972 ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Last Tango in Paris ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasControversy | graphic sexual content in Last Tango in Paris ⓘ |
| hasNotability | central protagonist of Last Tango in Paris ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | widower ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| name | Paul self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | explicit sexual relationship with Jeanne ⓘ |
| occupation | hotel owner ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Marlon Brando ⓘ |
| portrayedInLanguage | English-language performance ⓘ |
| relationshipWith |
Françoise Fabian
ⓘ
surface form:
Jeanne (Last Tango in Paris)
|
| residence | Paris ⓘ |
| settingOfStory |
Paris
ⓘ
surface form:
Paris, France
|
| spouse | Unnamed wife of Paul (Last Tango in Paris) ⓘ |
| spouseCauseOfDeath | suicide ⓘ |
| spouseStatus | deceased ⓘ |
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 middle-aged American widower portrayed by Marlon Brando in the controversial 1972 film "Last Tango in Paris."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.