Paul Nelson
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Paul Nelson was an American-born architect known for his modernist designs in France, particularly innovative hospital and residential projects in the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul Nelson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8894574 — 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 Nelson Context triple: [Varengeville-sur-Mer, wasHomeOf, Paul Nelson]
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A.
Marc Nelson
Marc Nelson is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and producer best known as a founding member of Boyz II Men and for his solo and collaborative work in contemporary R&B.
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B.
Brian Nelson
Brian Nelson is an American screenwriter best known for his work on the horror film "30 Days of Night" and the thriller "Hard Candy."
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C.
Kent Nelson
Kent Nelson is the DC Comics sorcerer who becomes Doctor Fate, a powerful mystical hero and longtime member of the Justice Society of America.
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D.
Jeff Nelson
Jeff Nelson is a Major League Baseball umpire who has served in numerous postseason games, including as a crew chief in the World Series.
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E.
Jack Nelson
Jack Nelson was an early 20th-century American actor known for his roles in silent films.
- 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 Nelson Target entity description: Paul Nelson was an American-born architect known for his modernist designs in France, particularly innovative hospital and residential projects in the mid-20th century.
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A.
Marc Nelson
Marc Nelson is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and producer best known as a founding member of Boyz II Men and for his solo and collaborative work in contemporary R&B.
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B.
Brian Nelson
Brian Nelson is an American screenwriter best known for his work on the horror film "30 Days of Night" and the thriller "Hard Candy."
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C.
Kent Nelson
Kent Nelson is the DC Comics sorcerer who becomes Doctor Fate, a powerful mystical hero and longtime member of the Justice Society of America.
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D.
Jeff Nelson
Jeff Nelson is a Major League Baseball umpire who has served in numerous postseason games, including as a crew chief in the World Series.
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E.
Jack Nelson
Jack Nelson was an early 20th-century American actor known for his roles in silent films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
architect
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human ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| designed |
hospital buildings in France
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residential buildings in France ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
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École des Beaux-Arts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
hospital architecture
ⓘ
modern architecture ⓘ residential architecture ⓘ |
| genre | modernist architecture ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Auguste Perret
NERFINISHED
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International Style NERFINISHED ⓘ Le Corbusier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
innovative hospital projects
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innovative residential projects ⓘ modernist designs in France ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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French ⓘ |
| movement | Modernism ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
experimental residential projects
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innovative hospital design concepts ⓘ integration of modern technology in architecture ⓘ use of suspended structures ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Maison de la Santé, Paris
NERFINISHED
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Sainte-Anne Hospital extension, Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ unrealized Air Hospital project ⓘ unrealized Suspended House project ⓘ |
| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chicago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
France
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Paris ⓘ |
| workLocation |
France
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Paris ⓘ |
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 Nelson Description of subject: Paul Nelson was an American-born architect known for his modernist designs in France, particularly innovative hospital and residential projects in the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.