Paul Lotman
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Paul Lotman is an American former professional volleyball player and Olympic athlete known for his successful international club career and contributions to the U.S. men's national team.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul Lotman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9698540 — 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 Lotman Context triple: [Long Beach State Beach men's volleyball team, notableAlumnus, Paul Lotman]
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A.
Yuri Lotman
Yuri Lotman was a prominent Russian-Estonian literary scholar and semiotician, best known as a founder of the Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School and for his influential work on the semiotics of culture and literature.
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B.
Paul Körner
Paul Körner was a high-ranking Nazi official and close associate of Hermann Göring who played a key role in the economic and industrial mobilization of the Third Reich.
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C.
Jean Starobinski
Jean Starobinski was a prominent Swiss literary critic, historian of ideas, and physician known for his influential studies of Enlightenment thought and the history of melancholy.
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D.
Paul Kosok
Paul Kosok was an American historian and archaeologist best known for pioneering the study of Peru’s Nazca Lines through early aerial surveys in the 1930s.
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E.
Lev Shestov
Lev Shestov was a Russian existentialist philosopher known for his critiques of rationalism and his emphasis on faith, freedom, and the absurd in human existence.
- 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 Lotman Target entity description: Paul Lotman is an American former professional volleyball player and Olympic athlete known for his successful international club career and contributions to the U.S. men's national team.
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A.
Yuri Lotman
Yuri Lotman was a prominent Russian-Estonian literary scholar and semiotician, best known as a founder of the Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School and for his influential work on the semiotics of culture and literature.
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B.
Paul Körner
Paul Körner was a high-ranking Nazi official and close associate of Hermann Göring who played a key role in the economic and industrial mobilization of the Third Reich.
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C.
Jean Starobinski
Jean Starobinski was a prominent Swiss literary critic, historian of ideas, and physician known for his influential studies of Enlightenment thought and the history of melancholy.
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D.
Paul Kosok
Paul Kosok was an American historian and archaeologist best known for pioneering the study of Peru’s Nazca Lines through early aerial surveys in the 1930s.
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E.
Lev Shestov
Lev Shestov was a Russian existentialist philosopher known for his critiques of rationalism and his emphasis on faith, freedom, and the absurd in human existence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Olympic athlete
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human ⓘ volleyball player ⓘ |
| activeYearsInNationalTeam | 2008–2016 ⓘ |
| blockReach | about 330 cm ⓘ |
| collegeAttended | Long Beach State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competitionClass | indoor volleyball ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1985-11-03 ⓘ |
| discipline | men's volleyball ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Long Beach State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Lotman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Paul ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | volleyball coach ⓘ |
| height | about 2.01 m ⓘ |
| jerseyNumber | 13 ⓘ |
| leagueParticipatedIn |
German Volleyball Bundesliga
NERFINISHED
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Italian Volleyball League NERFINISHED ⓘ PlusLiga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Long Beach State 49ers men's volleyball
NERFINISHED
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United States men's national volleyball team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Paul Michael Lotman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nationalTeamDebut | 2008 ⓘ |
| participatedIn | 2012 Summer Olympics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Lakewood, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedFor |
Asseco Resovia Rzeszów
NERFINISHED
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Berlin Recycling Volleys NERFINISHED ⓘ Cucine Lube Banca Marche Macerata NERFINISHED ⓘ Jastrzębski Węgiel NERFINISHED ⓘ Tours VB NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playsWith | right hand ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | outside hitter ⓘ |
| representedCountry | United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| retiredFromSport | volleyball ⓘ |
| spikeReach | about 345 cm ⓘ |
| sport | volleyball ⓘ |
| won |
CEV Champions League
NERFINISHED
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German Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ German Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ Polish Championship NERFINISHED ⓘ Polish SuperCup 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 Lotman Description of subject: Paul Lotman is an American former professional volleyball player and Olympic athlete known for his successful international club career and contributions to the U.S. men's national team.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.