Walter Peck
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Walter Peck is the antagonistic Environmental Protection Agency inspector in the original Ghostbusters film, known for his confrontations with the Ghostbusters and his role in unleashing the captured ghosts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Walter Peck canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17504888 — 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: Walter Peck Context triple: [William Atherton, portrayed, Walter Peck]
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A.
John L. Balderston
John L. Balderston was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for adapting classic horror and fantasy works such as "Dracula" and "Frankenstein" for stage and screen.
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B.
Donald Klopfer
Donald Klopfer was an American publisher best known as the co-founder of the influential publishing house Random House.
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C.
Arthur Peppercorn
Arthur Peppercorn was a prominent British steam locomotive designer who served as the last Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Eastern Railway, overseeing the development of its final express passenger engines.
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D.
Walter Dellinger
Walter Dellinger was a prominent American constitutional law scholar and former acting U.S. Solicitor General known for his influential work in Supreme Court advocacy and legal academia.
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E.
Alden B. Dow
Alden B. Dow was a prominent 20th-century American architect known for his innovative modernist designs and his association with the organic architecture movement.
- 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: Walter Peck Target entity description: Walter Peck is the antagonistic Environmental Protection Agency inspector in the original Ghostbusters film, known for his confrontations with the Ghostbusters and his role in unleashing the captured ghosts.
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A.
John L. Balderston
John L. Balderston was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for adapting classic horror and fantasy works such as "Dracula" and "Frankenstein" for stage and screen.
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B.
Donald Klopfer
Donald Klopfer was an American publisher best known as the co-founder of the influential publishing house Random House.
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C.
Arthur Peppercorn
Arthur Peppercorn was a prominent British steam locomotive designer who served as the last Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Eastern Railway, overseeing the development of its final express passenger engines.
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D.
Walter Dellinger
Walter Dellinger was a prominent American constitutional law scholar and former acting U.S. Solicitor General known for his influential work in Supreme Court advocacy and legal academia.
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E.
Alden B. Dow
Alden B. Dow was a prominent 20th-century American architect known for his innovative modernist designs and his association with the organic architecture movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.