Paul Raymond
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Paul Raymond was a British entrepreneur and publisher best known for building a pornography and property empire in Soho, London.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul Raymond canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10737331 — 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 Raymond Context triple: [The Look of Love, subject, Paul Raymond]
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A.
Jack Raymond
"Jack Raymond" is a lesser-known novel by Ethel Lilian Voynich, the author of "The Gadfly," exploring themes of personal identity and moral conflict.
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B.
Jack Raymond
Jack Raymond was an actor known for his role in the film "Hellgate."
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C.
John Raymond
John Raymond was an early settler and prominent local figure after whom the town of Raymond, New Hampshire, was named.
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D.
Paul Kidby
Paul Kidby is a British illustrator best known for his artwork for Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series and other fantasy book covers.
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E.
Paul Ryder
Paul Ryder was an English musician best known as the bassist and founding member of the influential Madchester band Happy Mondays.
- 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 Raymond Target entity description: Paul Raymond was a British entrepreneur and publisher best known for building a pornography and property empire in Soho, London.
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A.
Jack Raymond
Jack Raymond was an actor known for his role in the film "Hellgate."
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B.
Jack Raymond
"Jack Raymond" is a lesser-known novel by Ethel Lilian Voynich, the author of "The Gadfly," exploring themes of personal identity and moral conflict.
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C.
John Raymond
John Raymond was an early settler and prominent local figure after whom the town of Raymond, New Hampshire, was named.
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D.
Paul Kidby
Paul Kidby is a British illustrator best known for his artwork for Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series and other fantasy book covers.
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E.
Paul Ryder
Paul Ryder was an English musician best known as the bassist and founding member of the influential Madchester band Happy Mondays.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson in the adult entertainment industry
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entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| birthName | Geoffrey Anthony Quinn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Highgate Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| businessRegion | Soho, London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | respiratory failure ⓘ |
| child |
Deborah Raymond
NERFINISHED
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Derry McCarthy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1925-11-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2008-03-02 ⓘ |
| founded |
Paul Raymond Publications
NERFINISHED
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Raymond Revuebar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| industry |
adult entertainment
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magazine publishing ⓘ property investment ⓘ |
| knownFor |
adult entertainment business
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pornography publishing ⓘ property empire in Soho ⓘ |
| name | Paul Raymond NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| netWorthAtDeath | approximately £650 million ⓘ |
| notableTitle | King of Soho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Club International (magazine)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Escort (magazine) NERFINISHED ⓘ Mayfair (magazine) NERFINISHED ⓘ Men Only (magazine) NERFINISHED ⓘ Razzle (magazine) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
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property developer ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| openedVenue | Raymond Revuebar in Soho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openedVenueYear | 1958 ⓘ |
| ownedPropertyIn |
Soho
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
West End of London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partner | Fiona Richmond NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
England
ⓘ
Lancashire NERFINISHED ⓘ Liverpool NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
England
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London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
London, England
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surface form:
London
|
| spouse | Jean Bradley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startedCareerAs | stage magician ⓘ |
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 Raymond Description of subject: Paul Raymond was a British entrepreneur and publisher best known for building a pornography and property empire in Soho, London.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.