Paul
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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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5141980 — 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: [Simon Pegg, notableWork, 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.
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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C.
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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D.
Paulus
Paulus was an influential Roman jurist whose legal writings significantly shaped later compilations of Roman law.
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E.
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.
- 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 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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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.
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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C.
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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D.
Paulus
Paulus was an influential Roman jurist whose legal writings significantly shaped later compilations of Roman law.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
science fiction comedy film ⓘ |
| character |
Clive Gollings
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Graeme Willy NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul (alien) NERFINISHED ⓘ Ruth Buggs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Lawrence Sher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Greg Mottola NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Chris Dickens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresElement | wisecracking alien ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
New Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
road movie ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
friendship
ⓘ
road trip adventure ⓘ science fiction fandom ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | David Arnold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Two British comic-book geeks on a road trip across the United States encounter an alien named Paul who is on the run from government agents. ⓘ |
| producer |
Eric Fellner
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nira Park NERFINISHED ⓘ Tim Bevan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2011 ⓘ |
| runningTime | approximately 104 minutes ⓘ |
| screenplayBy |
Nick Frost
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Simon Pegg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Area 51
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| stars |
Bill Hader
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jason Bateman NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Lo Truglio NERFINISHED ⓘ Kristen Wiig NERFINISHED ⓘ Nick Frost NERFINISHED ⓘ Seth Rogen NERFINISHED ⓘ Sigourney Weaver NERFINISHED ⓘ Simon Pegg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Paul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer |
Nick Frost
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Simon Pegg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 a 2011 sci-fi comedy film about two British geeks who encounter a wisecracking alien during a road trip across the United States.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Susan Alexandra Weaver