Paul Kirby
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Paul Kirby is a central character in the film "Jurassic Park III," portrayed as a deceptive businessman who lures Dr. Alan Grant back to Isla Sorna under false pretenses to find his missing son.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eric Kirby | 2 |
| Paul Kirby canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10019045 — 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 Kirby Context triple: [Jurassic Park III, mainCharacter, Paul Kirby]
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A.
Scott Kirby
Scott Kirby is an American airline executive best known for leading United Airlines as its chief executive officer and for his long career in the commercial aviation industry.
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B.
Tony Kirby
Tony Kirby is a central character in the comedic play and film "You Can't Take It with You," serving as the wealthy young suitor whose romance bridges the gap between an eccentric family and high-society norms.
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C.
Ron Kirby
Ron Kirby is the rugged, independent gardener and love interest portrayed by Rock Hudson in the 1955 romantic drama film "All That Heaven Allows."
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D.
David Embick
David Embick is an American linguist known for his influential work in theoretical linguistics, particularly in syntax, morphology, and their interfaces.
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E.
Paul Reeves
Paul Reeves was a prominent New Zealand Anglican bishop, statesman, and the country’s first Māori Governor-General.
- 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 Kirby Target entity description: Paul Kirby is a central character in the film "Jurassic Park III," portrayed as a deceptive businessman who lures Dr. Alan Grant back to Isla Sorna under false pretenses to find his missing son.
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A.
Scott Kirby
Scott Kirby is an American airline executive best known for leading United Airlines as its chief executive officer and for his long career in the commercial aviation industry.
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B.
Tony Kirby
Tony Kirby is a central character in the comedic play and film "You Can't Take It with You," serving as the wealthy young suitor whose romance bridges the gap between an eccentric family and high-society norms.
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C.
Ron Kirby
Ron Kirby is the rugged, independent gardener and love interest portrayed by Rock Hudson in the 1955 romantic drama film "All That Heaven Allows."
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D.
David Embick
David Embick is an American linguist known for his influential work in theoretical linguistics, particularly in syntax, morphology, and their interfaces.
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E.
Paul Reeves
Paul Reeves was a prominent New Zealand Anglican bishop, statesman, and the country’s first Māori Governor-General.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| alliesWith |
Alan Grant
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Amanda Kirby NERFINISHED ⓘ Billy Brennan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Jurassic Park III
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jurassic Park III (2001 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | original Jurassic Park concept by Michael Crichton ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
deceptive
ⓘ
determined ⓘ protective parent ⓘ |
| createdBy | Joe Johnston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdFor | Jurassic Park film series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deceives | Alan Grant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Jurassic Park universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmDirector | Joe Johnston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmGenre | science fiction adventure ⓘ |
| filmSeriesInstallment | third Jurassic Park film ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Jurassic Park III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| franchise | Jurassic Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hires | Alan Grant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| liesAbout |
being a businessman with Kirby Enterprises
ⓘ
being wealthy ⓘ |
| motivation | to find his missing son Eric Kirby ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | businessman ⓘ |
| parentOf | Eric Kirby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Kirby family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
William H. Macy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
William H. Macy (actor) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rescues | Eric Kirby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingOfStory | Isla Sorna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| spouse | Amanda Kirby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| survives | Jurassic Park III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| travelsTo | Isla Sorna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfFirstAppearance | 2001 ⓘ |
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 Kirby Description of subject: Paul Kirby is a central character in the film "Jurassic Park III," portrayed as a deceptive businessman who lures Dr. Alan Grant back to Isla Sorna under false pretenses to find his missing son.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Eric Kirby
this entity surface form:
Eric Kirby