Paul Kersey
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Paul Kersey is the vigilante protagonist of the "Death Wish" film series, known for taking the law into his own hands after personal tragedy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul Kersey canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10722088 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul Kersey Context triple: [Charles Bronson, notableRole, Paul Kersey]
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A.
Art Donovan
Art Donovan was a Hall of Fame defensive tackle for the Baltimore Colts, renowned for his dominant play in the 1950s and his colorful, larger-than-life personality.
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Kevin Dunne
Kevin Dunne is a central character in the film "Snake Eyes," portrayed as a high-ranking military officer whose actions drive the movie’s conspiracy-laden plot.
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C.
Jeffrey Caine
Jeffrey Caine is a British screenwriter best known for co-writing the James Bond film "GoldenEye" and earning an Academy Award nomination for his adaptation of "The Constant Gardener."
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D.
Robert Kincaid
Robert Kincaid is a solitary National Geographic photographer whose brief, intense love affair with an Iowa farm wife forms the emotional core of the romantic drama "The Bridges of Madison County."
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E.
Andrew Cody
Andrew Cody is an individual known by the nickname "Pope," suggesting a distinctive or notable personal or public persona.
- 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 Kersey Target entity description: Paul Kersey is the vigilante protagonist of the "Death Wish" film series, known for taking the law into his own hands after personal tragedy.
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A.
Art Donovan
Art Donovan was a Hall of Fame defensive tackle for the Baltimore Colts, renowned for his dominant play in the 1950s and his colorful, larger-than-life personality.
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B.
Kevin Dunne
Kevin Dunne is a central character in the film "Snake Eyes," portrayed as a high-ranking military officer whose actions drive the movie’s conspiracy-laden plot.
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C.
Jeffrey Caine
Jeffrey Caine is a British screenwriter best known for co-writing the James Bond film "GoldenEye" and earning an Academy Award nomination for his adaptation of "The Constant Gardener."
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D.
Robert Kincaid
Robert Kincaid is a solitary National Geographic photographer whose brief, intense love affair with an Iowa farm wife forms the emotional core of the romantic drama "The Bridges of Madison County."
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E.
Andrew Cody
Andrew Cody is an individual known by the nickname "Pope," suggesting a distinctive or notable personal or public persona.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ vigilante ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | Death Wish (1972 novel character) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Death Wish
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Death Wish 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ Death Wish 4: The Crackdown NERFINISHED ⓘ Death Wish II NERFINISHED ⓘ Death Wish V: The Face of Death NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Paul Benjamin (novel character) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterAlignment | vigilante justice ⓘ |
| child | Carol Kersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | Brian Garfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalImpact | iconic 1970s–1980s vigilante figure ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Death Wish film series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmGenreContext | vigilante action ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Death Wish (1974 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| franchise | Death Wish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| homeCity | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laterResidence | Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| moralAmbiguity | portrayed as both hero and antihero ⓘ |
| motivation | revenge for family attack ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAction | takes the law into his own hands ⓘ |
| notableEvent | family assaulted by criminals ⓘ |
| notableTheme |
personal justice
ⓘ
urban crime ⓘ |
| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| originalPortrayalEra |
1970s
GENERATED
ⓘ
1980s GENERATED ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
determined
ⓘ
stoic ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Bruce Willis
NERFINISHED
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Charles Bronson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedInRemake | Death Wish (2018 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reactionToTragedy | becomes vigilante ⓘ |
| spouse | Joanna Kersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| statusInSeries | protagonist ⓘ |
| weaponOfChoice | handgun ⓘ |
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 Kersey Description of subject: Paul Kersey is the vigilante protagonist of the "Death Wish" film series, known for taking the law into his own hands after personal tragedy.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.