Paul Madvig
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Paul Madvig is the politically connected fixer and central protagonist of the 1942 film noir "The Glass Key," navigating corruption, loyalty, and murder in a tense urban underworld.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul Madvig canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6503819 — 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 Madvig Context triple: [The Glass Key (1942 film), mainCharacter, Paul Madvig]
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A.
Philip Aaberg
Philip Aaberg is an American pianist and composer known for his genre-blending contemporary instrumental music that often reflects the landscapes and spirit of the American West.
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B.
Edward Anhalt
Edward Anhalt was an American screenwriter and producer best known for his Academy Award–winning work on films such as "Panic in the Streets" and "Becket."
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C.
William Wendt
William Wendt was a prominent American landscape painter celebrated as a leading figure of the California Impressionist movement.
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D.
Joseph Weishaar
Joseph Weishaar is an American architect and designer best known for winning the competition to create the National World War I Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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E.
George Juergens
George Juergens is a central character on the teen drama series "The Secret Life of the American Teenager," known as the quirky, overprotective father navigating family turmoil and teenage pregnancy.
- 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 Madvig Target entity description: Paul Madvig is the politically connected fixer and central protagonist of the 1942 film noir "The Glass Key," navigating corruption, loyalty, and murder in a tense urban underworld.
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A.
Philip Aaberg
Philip Aaberg is an American pianist and composer known for his genre-blending contemporary instrumental music that often reflects the landscapes and spirit of the American West.
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B.
Edward Anhalt
Edward Anhalt was an American screenwriter and producer best known for his Academy Award–winning work on films such as "Panic in the Streets" and "Becket."
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C.
William Wendt
William Wendt was a prominent American landscape painter celebrated as a leading figure of the California Impressionist movement.
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D.
Joseph Weishaar
Joseph Weishaar is an American architect and designer best known for winning the competition to create the National World War I Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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E.
George Juergens
George Juergens is a central character on the teen drama series "The Secret Life of the American Teenager," known as the quirky, overprotective father navigating family turmoil and teenage pregnancy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Glass Key NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenre | crime drama ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
betrayal
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organized crime ⓘ personal loyalty ⓘ political corruption ⓘ |
| basedOn | character from Dashiell Hammett novel "The Glass Key" ⓘ |
| genreContext | film noir ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
corruption
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loyalty ⓘ murder ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
catalyst for investigation into murder
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central figure in political power struggles ⓘ |
| occupation | political fixer ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative | protagonist ⓘ |
| setting | urban underworld ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 1942 ⓘ |
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 Madvig Description of subject: Paul Madvig is the politically connected fixer and central protagonist of the 1942 film noir "The Glass Key," navigating corruption, loyalty, and murder in a tense urban underworld.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.