Peter Lyman
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Peter Lyman is a charming and seemingly respectable British aristocrat and politician who becomes the prime murder suspect in Woody Allen’s mystery-comedy film "Scoop."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peter Lyman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13147731 — 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: Peter Lyman Context triple: [Scoop (2006 film), hasMainCharacter, Peter Lyman]
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A.
Eric Lamonsoff
Eric Lamonsoff is a bumbling yet big-hearted family man and close friend of Lenny Feder in the Grown Ups comedy film series.
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B.
Scott Heiferman
Scott Heiferman is an American entrepreneur best known for co-founding the social networking platform Meetup, which helps people organize and attend local in-person events.
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C.
Arthur Demarest
Arthur Demarest is an American archaeologist and Mayanist scholar known for his extensive research on Classic Maya civilization and leadership of major excavations in the Petexbatún region of Guatemala.
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D.
Don Peters
Don Peters is a character in Stephen King and Owen King's novel "Sleeping Beauties," involved in the unfolding crisis when women worldwide fall into a mysterious sleep.
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E.
Philip Bruns
Philip Bruns was an American character actor best known for his television and film roles in the 1970s and 1980s, including his work on the satirical soap opera "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
- 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: Peter Lyman Target entity description: Peter Lyman is a charming and seemingly respectable British aristocrat and politician who becomes the prime murder suspect in Woody Allen’s mystery-comedy film "Scoop."
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A.
Eric Lamonsoff
Eric Lamonsoff is a bumbling yet big-hearted family man and close friend of Lenny Feder in the Grown Ups comedy film series.
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B.
Scott Heiferman
Scott Heiferman is an American entrepreneur best known for co-founding the social networking platform Meetup, which helps people organize and attend local in-person events.
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C.
Arthur Demarest
Arthur Demarest is an American archaeologist and Mayanist scholar known for his extensive research on Classic Maya civilization and leadership of major excavations in the Petexbatún region of Guatemala.
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D.
Don Peters
Don Peters is a character in Stephen King and Owen King's novel "Sleeping Beauties," involved in the unfolding crisis when women worldwide fall into a mysterious sleep.
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E.
Philip Bruns
Philip Bruns was an American character actor best known for his television and film roles in the 1970s and 1980s, including his work on the satirical soap opera "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Scoop NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | original character by Woody Allen ⓘ |
| characteristic |
charming
ⓘ
respectable ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Woody Allen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Scoop (film universe) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn |
mystery comedy film
ⓘ
romantic comedy ⓘ |
| hasFirstName | Peter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasMannerOfSpeaking | British accent GENERATED ⓘ |
| hasReputationInStory | respectable public figure ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Lyman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfFictionalUniverse | English NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediumOfAppearance | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
antagonist
ⓘ
prime murder suspect ⓘ |
| occupation | politician ⓘ |
| partOf | Scoop (film) narrative ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Hugh Jackman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingOfFictionalActivity | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialStatus | aristocrat ⓘ |
| themeOfAssociatedWork |
identity and deception
ⓘ
murder investigation ⓘ |
| titleOfWorkAppearedIn | Scoop (2006 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfWorkAppearance | 2006 ⓘ |
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: Peter Lyman Description of subject: Peter Lyman is a charming and seemingly respectable British aristocrat and politician who becomes the prime murder suspect in Woody Allen’s mystery-comedy film "Scoop."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Scoop (2006 film)