Peter Hannan
E440471
Peter Hannan is a British cinematographer best known for his work on the cult classic film "Withnail & I."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Peter Hannan canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4423020 — 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 Hannan Context triple: [Withnail & I, cinematographyBy, Peter Hannan]
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A.
Peter Mathieson
Peter Mathieson is a British nephrologist and academic leader who has served as principal and vice-chancellor of major universities, including the University of Edinburgh and the University of Hong Kong.
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B.
John Hadden
John Hadden is a theater artist and director best known as a co-founder of the Shakespeare & Company theater troupe.
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C.
Patrick Hughes
Patrick Hughes is an Australian film director best known for helming action movies such as *The Expendables 3* and *The Hitman's Bodyguard*.
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D.
John Bluthal
John Bluthal was a Polish-born British actor best known for his comic roles in British television and film, including his memorable performance in the sitcom "The Vicar of Dibley."
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E.
Martin Boddey
Martin Boddey was a British character actor known for his frequent supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television, often portraying authority figures such as policemen and officials.
- 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 Hannan Target entity description: Peter Hannan is a British cinematographer best known for his work on the cult classic film "Withnail & I."
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A.
Peter Mathieson
Peter Mathieson is a British nephrologist and academic leader who has served as principal and vice-chancellor of major universities, including the University of Edinburgh and the University of Hong Kong.
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B.
John Hadden
John Hadden is a theater artist and director best known as a co-founder of the Shakespeare & Company theater troupe.
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C.
Patrick Hughes
Patrick Hughes is an Australian film director best known for helming action movies such as *The Expendables 3* and *The Hitman's Bodyguard*.
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D.
John Bluthal
John Bluthal was a Polish-born British actor best known for his comic roles in British television and film, including his memorable performance in the sitcom "The Vicar of Dibley."
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E.
Martin Boddey
Martin Boddey was a British character actor known for his frequent supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television, often portraying authority figures such as policemen and officials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British cinematographer
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cinematographer ⓘ film ⓘ person ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Peter Hannan ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre | cult film ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork | Withnail & I ⓘ |
| occupation | cinematographer ⓘ |
| workedOn | Withnail & I ⓘ |
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 Hannan Description of subject: Peter Hannan is a British cinematographer best known for his work on the cult classic film "Withnail & I."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.