Peter Macon
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Peter Macon is an American actor best known for playing the Moclan officer Lt. Cmdr. Bortus on the science fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Peter Macon canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T246415 — 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 Macon Context triple: [The Orville, portrayedBy, Peter Macon]
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A.
John Curran
John Curran is an American film director and screenwriter known for character-driven dramas such as "Chappaquiddick," "We Don't Live Here Anymore," and "The Painted Veil."
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B.
Edward Fox
Edward Fox is an English actor renowned for his roles in films such as "The Day of the Jackal" and "A Bridge Too Far."
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C.
Robert Pitt
Robert Pitt was an English merchant and politician of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, best known for his wealth from Indian trade and as the patriarch of the influential Pitt family.
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D.
Burn Gorman
Burn Gorman is a British-American actor known for his character roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like "Torchwood," "Game of Thrones," and "Pacific Rim."
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E.
Jude Law
Jude Law is an English actor known for his versatile performances in films such as "The Talented Mr. Ripley," "Cold Mountain," and the "Sherlock Holmes" series.
- 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 Macon Target entity description: Peter Macon is an American actor best known for playing the Moclan officer Lt. Cmdr. Bortus on the science fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
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A.
John Curran
John Curran is an American film director and screenwriter known for character-driven dramas such as "Chappaquiddick," "We Don't Live Here Anymore," and "The Painted Veil."
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B.
Edward Fox
Edward Fox is an English actor renowned for his roles in films such as "The Day of the Jackal" and "A Bridge Too Far."
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C.
Robert Pitt
Robert Pitt was an English merchant and politician of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, best known for his wealth from Indian trade and as the patriarch of the influential Pitt family.
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D.
Burn Gorman
Burn Gorman is a British-American actor known for his character roles in film and television, including appearances in projects like "Torchwood," "Game of Thrones," and "Pacific Rim."
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E.
Jude Law
Jude Law is an English actor known for his versatile performances in films such as "The Talented Mr. Ripley," "Cold Mountain," and the "Sherlock Holmes" series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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fictional character ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Orville ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy-drama
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comedy-drama television ⓘ science fiction ⓘ science fiction television ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasNotableRole | Lt. Cmdr. Bortus in The Orville ⓘ |
| knownFor | playing Lt. Cmdr. Bortus on The Orville ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Orville ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of The Orville ⓘ |
| performingArtsMedium |
film
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television ⓘ |
| portrayed | Lt. Cmdr. Bortus ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
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 Macon Description of subject: Peter Macon is an American actor best known for playing the Moclan officer Lt. Cmdr. Bortus on the science fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lt. Cmdr. Bortus