Paul
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Paul is a central character in the psychological horror film "It Comes at Night," portrayed as a protective family man struggling to safeguard his loved ones amid a mysterious, apocalyptic threat.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9835612 — 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: [It Comes at Night, characterInPlot, Paul]
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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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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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Paul
Paul is a village and civil parish in Cornwall, England, known for its historic church and coastal setting near Penzance.
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Paul
Paul is a character in the crime drama film "Never Die Alone," which follows the violent, intertwined lives of drug dealers and those around them.
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Paul
Paul is a family name most notably borne by Wolfgang Paul, the German physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics.
- 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 central character in the psychological horror film "It Comes at Night," portrayed as a protective family man struggling to safeguard his loved ones amid a mysterious, apocalyptic threat.
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A.
Paul
Paul is a character in the crime drama film "Never Die Alone," which follows the violent, intertwined lives of drug dealers and those around them.
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B.
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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C.
Paul
Paul is the charismatic young con artist at the center of the play and film "Six Degrees of Separation," whose deception exposes themes of class, connection, and identity among wealthy New Yorkers.
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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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Paul
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | It Comes at Night NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | feature film ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
cautious
ⓘ
paranoid ⓘ protective ⓘ resourceful ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Will (It Comes at Night) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfFilmProduction | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enforcesRule |
keeping the red door locked
ⓘ
strict quarantine procedures ⓘ |
| familyRelation |
father of Travis (It Comes at Night)
ⓘ
husband of Sarah (It Comes at Night) ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | It Comes at Night universe ⓘ |
| filmDirectedBy | Trey Edward Shults NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | It Comes at Night (2017 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkContext | psychological horror film ⓘ |
| languageOfFilm | English ⓘ |
| livesWith |
Sarah (It Comes at Night)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Travis (It Comes at Night) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| moralDilemma | balancing survival with compassion ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
breakdown of trust
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family survival ⓘ fear of infection ⓘ |
| notableAction | takes in Will and his family ⓘ |
| occupationBeforeOutbreak | unknown ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Joel Edgerton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryMotivation | protect his family ⓘ |
| residesAt | secluded house in the woods ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative |
central character
ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ |
| settingContext | post-apocalyptic world ⓘ |
| threatContext | mysterious contagious disease ⓘ |
| usesWeapon |
handgun
ⓘ
shotgun ⓘ |
| workReleaseYear | 2017 ⓘ |
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 central character in the psychological horror film "It Comes at Night," portrayed as a protective family man struggling to safeguard his loved ones amid a mysterious, apocalyptic threat.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.