Peter Straughan
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Peter Straughan is a British screenwriter known for his work on acclaimed films such as the adaptation of John le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Peter Straughan canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T382337 — 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 Straughan Context triple: [Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011 film), screenwriter, Peter Straughan]
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A.
Richard Griffiths
Richard Griffiths was a British character actor best known for his roles in films such as "Withnail & I" and as Uncle Vernon Dursley in the "Harry Potter" series.
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B.
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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C.
Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh is a Northern Irish actor and filmmaker renowned for his Shakespeare adaptations and acclaimed performances in both stage and screen productions.
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D.
Peter Macon
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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E.
Stephen Merchant
Stephen Merchant is an English comedian, writer, director, and actor best known as the co-creator of the acclaimed TV series "The Office" and frequent collaborator of Ricky Gervais.
- 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 Straughan Target entity description: Peter Straughan is a British screenwriter known for his work on acclaimed films such as the adaptation of John le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
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A.
Richard Griffiths
Richard Griffiths was a British character actor best known for his roles in films such as "Withnail & I" and as Uncle Vernon Dursley in the "Harry Potter" series.
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B.
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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C.
Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh is a Northern Irish actor and filmmaker renowned for his Shakespeare adaptations and acclaimed performances in both stage and screen productions.
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D.
Peter Macon
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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E.
Stephen Merchant
Stephen Merchant is an English comedian, writer, director, and actor best known as the co-creator of the acclaimed TV series "The Office" and frequent collaborator of Ricky Gervais.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
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 Straughan Description of subject: Peter Straughan is a British screenwriter known for his work on acclaimed films such as the adaptation of John le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Snowman (2017 film)
subject surface form:
Jim Prideaux (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, 2011 film)