Peter
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Peter is the middle name of John Peter Altgeld, a prominent 19th-century American politician and reformist governor of Illinois.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Peter canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11747032 — 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 Context triple: [John Peter Altgeld, middleName, Peter]
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Peter
Peter is a central character in Margaret Atwood's novel "The Edible Woman," serving as the protagonist Marian's conventional, marriage-minded fiancé who embodies societal expectations.
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Peter
Peter is the sensible and responsible leader of Enid Blyton’s Secret Seven children’s detective club.
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Peter
Peter is the sensible, rule-abiding leader of Enid Blyton’s Secret Seven children’s detective club.
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Peter
Peter is the young prince falsely accused of murder and imprisoned in Stephen King’s fantasy novel "The Eyes of the Dragon," whose struggle to reclaim his throne drives the story.
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Peter
Peter is a central character in the darkly comedic short film "The New Tenants," around whom much of the film’s tension and absurdity unfolds.
- 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 Target entity description: Peter is the middle name of John Peter Altgeld, a prominent 19th-century American politician and reformist governor of Illinois.
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Peter
Peter is a common male given name of Greek origin, widely used in many languages and cultures, often associated with the meaning "rock" or "stone."
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Peter
Peter is a central figure among Jesus’s apostles in the New Testament, traditionally regarded as the leader of the early Christian Church.
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Peter
Peter is a leading apostle of Jesus in the New Testament, known for his prominent role in the early Christian church and for preaching key messages about Jesus’ resurrection.
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Peter
Peter is one of the three allegorical brothers in Jonathan Swift’s satirical work "A Tale of a Tub," representing the excesses and corruptions of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Peter
Peter is the sensible and responsible leader of Enid Blyton’s Secret Seven children’s detective club.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
governor
ⓘ
human ⓘ middle name ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| commonInCulture | English-speaking world ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| givenNameUsage | John Peter Altgeld NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Altgeld NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMiddleName | Peter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNameComponent | Peter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Pedro
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Petrus NERFINISHED ⓘ Pierre NERFINISHED ⓘ Pietro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isMiddleNameOf | John Peter Altgeld NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Greek ⓘ |
| meaning | rock ⓘ |
| nameType |
given name
ⓘ
personal name ⓘ |
| notableFor | reformist policies ⓘ |
| officeHeldInJurisdiction | Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Governor of Illinois ⓘ |
| usageType | masculine given name ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: Peter is the middle name of John Peter Altgeld, a prominent 19th-century American politician and reformist governor of Illinois.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
John Peter Altgeld