Paul in Big
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Paul in "Big" is a supporting character who serves as the self-absorbed, competitive boyfriend of Susan and a foil to Tom Hanks’s childlike protagonist.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul in Big canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9780712 — 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 in Big Context triple: [John Heard, role, Paul in Big]
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A.
Children of Paul’s
Children of Paul’s was a renowned troupe of boy actors associated with St Paul’s Cathedral in London that performed popular plays during the Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods.
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B.
The Pete
The Pete is a multi-purpose indoor arena at the University of Pittsburgh known primarily as the home venue for the Pittsburgh Panthers basketball teams.
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C.
Big Aristotle
Big Aristotle is a nickname for Shaquille O'Neal, the dominant Hall of Fame NBA center known for his powerful play and larger-than-life personality.
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D.
Peter’s Friends
Peter’s Friends is a 1992 British comedy-drama film about a group of former university friends reuniting for a New Year’s weekend, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh.
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E.
Big Bub
Big Bub is an American R&B singer and producer known for his work in the 1990s, including production contributions to Brandy’s debut album.
- 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 in Big Target entity description: Paul in "Big" is a supporting character who serves as the self-absorbed, competitive boyfriend of Susan and a foil to Tom Hanks’s childlike protagonist.
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A.
Children of Paul’s
Children of Paul’s was a renowned troupe of boy actors associated with St Paul’s Cathedral in London that performed popular plays during the Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods.
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B.
The Pete
The Pete is a multi-purpose indoor arena at the University of Pittsburgh known primarily as the home venue for the Pittsburgh Panthers basketball teams.
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C.
Big Aristotle
Big Aristotle is a nickname for Shaquille O'Neal, the dominant Hall of Fame NBA center known for his powerful play and larger-than-life personality.
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D.
Peter’s Friends
Peter’s Friends is a 1992 British comedy-drama film about a group of former university friends reuniting for a New Year’s weekend, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh.
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E.
Big Bub
Big Bub is an American R&B singer and producer known for his work in the 1990s, including production contributions to Brandy’s debut album.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
1988 film Big
ⓘ
Big NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Josh Baskin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Susan Lawrence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
ambitious
ⓘ
arrogant ⓘ competitive ⓘ self-absorbed ⓘ status-conscious ⓘ |
| conflictsWith | Josh Baskin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdFor | Big (1988 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employerInFilm | MacMillan Toy Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| envies | Josh Baskin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmGenreContext | fantasy comedy ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Big (1988 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
antagonist
ⓘ
foil to Josh Baskin ⓘ supporting character ⓘ |
| occupation | marketing executive ⓘ |
| partOf | Big (film) character ensemble ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | John Heard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedByCharacterActor | John Heard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relationshipType | boyfriend of Susan Lawrence ⓘ |
| romanticPartner | Susan Lawrence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worksFor | MacMillan Toy Company 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 in Big Description of subject: Paul in "Big" is a supporting character who serves as the self-absorbed, competitive boyfriend of Susan and a foil to Tom Hanks’s childlike protagonist.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.