Donald Peterman
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Donald Peterman was an American cinematographer known for his work on major Hollywood films in the 1980s and 1990s, including visually distinctive science fiction and comedy features.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Donald Peterman canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T577779 — 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: Donald Peterman Context triple: [Cocoon, cinematographyBy, Donald Peterman]
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A.
Rod Gilbert
Rod Gilbert was a Canadian Hall of Fame right winger best known as one of the greatest players in New York Rangers history.
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B.
Geoff Petrie
Geoff Petrie is a former American professional basketball guard best known as an early star for the Portland Trail Blazers and later a longtime NBA executive.
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C.
Andrew Darwin
Andrew Darwin is an individual notable for bearing the Darwin surname, historically associated with the famous naturalist Charles Darwin.
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Murray Sueter
Murray Sueter was a pioneering British naval officer and aviation advocate who played a key role in the early development of naval air power in the United Kingdom.
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E.
Alan Cottrell
Alan Cottrell was a prominent British metallurgist and materials scientist renowned for his pioneering work on the mechanical properties of metals and their defects.
- 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: Donald Peterman Target entity description: Donald Peterman was an American cinematographer known for his work on major Hollywood films in the 1980s and 1990s, including visually distinctive science fiction and comedy features.
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A.
Rod Gilbert
Rod Gilbert was a Canadian Hall of Fame right winger best known as one of the greatest players in New York Rangers history.
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B.
Geoff Petrie
Geoff Petrie is a former American professional basketball guard best known as an early star for the Portland Trail Blazers and later a longtime NBA executive.
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C.
Andrew Darwin
Andrew Darwin is an individual notable for bearing the Darwin surname, historically associated with the famous naturalist Charles Darwin.
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D.
Murray Sueter
Murray Sueter was a pioneering British naval officer and aviation advocate who played a key role in the early development of naval air power in the United Kingdom.
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E.
Alan Cottrell
Alan Cottrell was a prominent British metallurgist and materials scientist renowned for his pioneering work on the mechanical properties of metals and their defects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
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: Donald Peterman Description of subject: Donald Peterman was an American cinematographer known for his work on major Hollywood films in the 1980s and 1990s, including visually distinctive science fiction and comedy features.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
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