Peter Riegert
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Peter Riegert is an American actor and director known for his roles in films such as "Animal House," "Local Hero," and "The Mask," as well as numerous television appearances.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peter Riegert canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5485851 — 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 Riegert Context triple: [The Mask, starring, Peter Riegert]
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A.
Paul Knabenshue
Paul Knabenshue was an American diplomat best known for serving as the first U.S. Ambassador to Iraq in the early 20th century.
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B.
Alan Schilke
Alan Schilke is a prominent roller coaster engineer known for designing innovative and extreme thrill rides for major amusement parks worldwide.
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C.
Peter Vinnemeier
Peter Vinnemeier is a German entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the global hotel search and price comparison platform Trivago.
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D.
Eric Marienthal
Eric Marienthal is an American contemporary jazz saxophonist known for his work in jazz fusion and smooth jazz, including prominent collaborations with leading artists and bands.
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E.
John Reister
John Reister was an early settler and landowner after whom the community of Reisterstown, Maryland, was named.
- 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 Riegert Target entity description: Peter Riegert is an American actor and director known for his roles in films such as "Animal House," "Local Hero," and "The Mask," as well as numerous television appearances.
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A.
Paul Knabenshue
Paul Knabenshue was an American diplomat best known for serving as the first U.S. Ambassador to Iraq in the early 20th century.
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B.
Alan Schilke
Alan Schilke is a prominent roller coaster engineer known for designing innovative and extreme thrill rides for major amusement parks worldwide.
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C.
Peter Vinnemeier
Peter Vinnemeier is a German entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the global hotel search and price comparison platform Trivago.
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D.
Eric Marienthal
Eric Marienthal is an American contemporary jazz saxophonist known for his work in jazz fusion and smooth jazz, including prominent collaborations with leading artists and bands.
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E.
John Reister
John Reister was an early settler and landowner after whom the community of Reisterstown, Maryland, was named.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
film director ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1947-04-11 ⓘ |
| directorOf | King of the Corner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
The Bronx High School of Science
NERFINISHED
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The State University of New York at Buffalo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Riegert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Peter ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Peter Riegert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
American Pastoral
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Barbarians at the Gate NERFINISHED ⓘ Crossing Delancey NERFINISHED ⓘ Dads NERFINISHED ⓘ Damages NERFINISHED ⓘ King of the Corner NERFINISHED ⓘ Local Hero NERFINISHED ⓘ National Lampoon's Animal House NERFINISHED ⓘ Oscar NERFINISHED ⓘ Show Me a Hero NERFINISHED ⓘ The Good Wife NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mask NERFINISHED ⓘ The Plot Against America NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sopranos NERFINISHED ⓘ Traffic NERFINISHED ⓘ Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film director ⓘ television director ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ The Bronx NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayed |
Assemblyman Ronald Zellman in The Sopranos
NERFINISHED
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Donald "Boon" Schoenstein in National Lampoon's Animal House NERFINISHED ⓘ Judge Harvey Winter in The Good Wife NERFINISHED ⓘ Lt. Kellaway in The Mask ⓘ MacIntyre "Mac" MacIntyre in Local Hero NERFINISHED ⓘ Sam Posner in Crossing Delancey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1970s–present ⓘ |
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 Riegert Description of subject: Peter Riegert is an American actor and director known for his roles in films such as "Animal House," "Local Hero," and "The Mask," as well as numerous television appearances.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Crossing Delancey