Peter Berg
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Peter Berg is an American filmmaker and actor known for directing films like "Friday Night Lights," "Lone Survivor," and "Deepwater Horizon," as well as creating the television series "Friday Night Lights."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peter Berg canonical | 32 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T523963 — 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 Berg Context triple: [Smokin' Aces, starring, Peter Berg]
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A.
Ron Howard
Ron Howard is an American filmmaker and former child actor best known for directing acclaimed films such as "A Beautiful Mind," "Apollo 13," and "Cocoon."
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B.
Joe Carnahan
Joe Carnahan is an American filmmaker known for his stylish, high-energy action and crime films such as "Narc," "The Grey," and "Smokin' Aces."
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C.
James MacDonald
James MacDonald was an American sound effects artist and voice actor for Disney, known for providing voices and innovative audio work in many classic animated films.
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D.
Eric Roth
Eric Roth is an acclaimed American screenwriter best known for writing the Oscar-winning screenplay for "Forrest Gump" and contributing to numerous other major films.
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E.
Garth Davis
Garth Davis is an Australian film and television director best known for his critically acclaimed feature "Lion" and work on the series "Top of the Lake."
- 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 Berg Target entity description: Peter Berg is an American filmmaker and actor known for directing films like "Friday Night Lights," "Lone Survivor," and "Deepwater Horizon," as well as creating the television series "Friday Night Lights."
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A.
Ron Howard
Ron Howard is an American filmmaker and former child actor best known for directing acclaimed films such as "A Beautiful Mind," "Apollo 13," and "Cocoon."
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B.
Joe Carnahan
Joe Carnahan is an American filmmaker known for his stylish, high-energy action and crime films such as "Narc," "The Grey," and "Smokin' Aces."
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C.
James MacDonald
James MacDonald was an American sound effects artist and voice actor for Disney, known for providing voices and innovative audio work in many classic animated films.
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D.
Eric Roth
Eric Roth is an acclaimed American screenwriter best known for writing the Oscar-winning screenplay for "Forrest Gump" and contributing to numerous other major films.
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E.
Garth Davis
Garth Davis is an Australian film and television director best known for his critically acclaimed feature "Lion" and work on the series "Top of the Lake."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| actedIn |
Chicago Hope
ⓘ
Cop Land ⓘ The Last Seduction ⓘ |
| adaptedFrom |
Friday Night Lights (film)
ⓘ
surface form:
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
|
| basedOnWorkBy | Buzz Bissinger ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| created |
Friday Night Lights (film)
ⓘ
surface form:
Friday Night Lights (TV series)
|
| dateOfBirth | 1964-03-11 ⓘ |
| directed |
Battleship
ⓘ
surface form:
Battleship (film)
Deepwater Horizon ⓘ
surface form:
Deepwater Horizon (film)
Friday Night Lights (film) ⓘ Hancock (film) ⓘ Lone Survivor ⓘ
surface form:
Lone Survivor (film)
Patriots’ Day ⓘ
surface form:
Patriots Day (film)
The Kingdom ⓘ
surface form:
The Kingdom (film)
|
| familyName | Berg ⓘ |
| fullName | Peter Berg self-link ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization |
action film
ⓘ
drama ⓘ war film ⓘ |
| givenName | Peter ⓘ |
| hasDirectedActor |
Mark Wahlberg
ⓘ
Taylor Kitsch ⓘ Will Smith ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableCollaboration | Mark Wahlberg ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Battleship
ⓘ
surface form:
Battleship (film)
Deepwater Horizon ⓘ
surface form:
Deepwater Horizon (film)
Friday Night Lights (film) ⓘ
surface form:
Friday Night Lights (TV series)
Friday Night Lights (film) ⓘ Hancock (film) ⓘ Lone Survivor ⓘ
surface form:
Lone Survivor (film)
The Kingdom ⓘ
surface form:
The Kingdom (film)
|
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
film director ⓘ film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
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 Berg Description of subject: Peter Berg is an American filmmaker and actor known for directing films like "Friday Night Lights," "Lone Survivor," and "Deepwater Horizon," as well as creating the television series "Friday Night Lights."
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.