Peter Boyd
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Peter Boyd is the driven and often emotionally conflicted leader of a cold case investigation unit in the British crime drama series "Waking the Dead."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peter Boyd canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11036726 — 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 Boyd Context triple: [Waking the Dead, hasMainCharacter, Peter Boyd]
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A.
Peter Boyd
Peter Boyd is a sustainability and climate-focused business leader known for his executive role at the environmental nonprofit Carbon War Room.
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B.
Colin St John Wilson
Colin St John Wilson was a British architect and academic best known for designing the main building of the British Library in London.
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C.
Brian Ronan
Brian Ronan is a Tony Award–winning Broadway sound designer known for his work on numerous high-profile musicals and plays.
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D.
Philip Rogers
Philip Rogers was a 19th-century landowner and early settler whose real estate holdings and development efforts on Chicago’s North Side led to the neighborhood of Rogers Park bearing his name.
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E.
Cecil Balmond
Cecil Balmond is a Sri Lankan–British designer, engineer, and theorist renowned for his innovative structural collaborations on landmark architectural projects worldwide.
- 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 Boyd Target entity description: Peter Boyd is the driven and often emotionally conflicted leader of a cold case investigation unit in the British crime drama series "Waking the Dead."
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A.
Peter Boyd
Peter Boyd is a sustainability and climate-focused business leader known for his executive role at the environmental nonprofit Carbon War Room.
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B.
Colin St John Wilson
Colin St John Wilson was a British architect and academic best known for designing the main building of the British Library in London.
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C.
Brian Ronan
Brian Ronan is a Tony Award–winning Broadway sound designer known for his work on numerous high-profile musicals and plays.
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D.
Philip Rogers
Philip Rogers was a 19th-century landowner and early settler whose real estate holdings and development efforts on Chicago’s North Side led to the neighborhood of Rogers Park bearing his name.
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E.
Cecil Balmond
Cecil Balmond is a Sri Lankan–British designer, engineer, and theorist renowned for his innovative structural collaborations on landmark architectural projects worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Waking the Dead ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | police procedural ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
cold case squad
ⓘ
linked to:
Cold Case Squad
|
| characterTrait |
driven
ⓘ
emotionally conflicted ⓘ |
| countryOfWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdFor | British television series ⓘ |
| genre | crime drama ⓘ |
| hasFictionalUniverse |
Waking the Dead universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Waking the Dead
|
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasMedium | television ⓘ |
| hasName | Peter Boyd ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeArc | struggles with personal and emotional issues ⓘ |
| hasPersonality |
intense
ⓘ
obsessive about solving cases ⓘ |
| investigates |
cold cases
ⓘ
unsolved murders ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation |
detective
ⓘ
police officer ⓘ |
| partOf |
Metropolitan Police (fictional depiction)
ⓘ
linked to:
London Metropolitan Police (fictionalized)
|
| portrayedIn | British crime drama television ⓘ |
| primarySetting |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| role | leader of a cold case investigation unit ⓘ |
| teamRole | unit leader ⓘ |
| worksFor | cold case investigation unit ⓘ |
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 Boyd Description of subject: Peter Boyd is the driven and often emotionally conflicted leader of a cold case investigation unit in the British crime drama series "Waking the Dead."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.