Peter Vaughan
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Peter Vaughan was a British character actor known for his powerful screen presence in film and television, including roles in works like "Brazil," "Straw Dogs," and later "Game of Thrones."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peter Vaughan canonical | 26 |
| Peter Vaughan (actor) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1009915 — 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 Vaughan Context triple: [The Remains of the Day, castMember, Peter Vaughan]
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A.
John Brett
John Brett was a 19th-century British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, renowned for his highly detailed landscapes and maritime scenes.
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B.
John Cheshire
John Cheshire is a senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of RAF Fighter Command.
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C.
Hugh Frayne
Hugh Frayne was an American labor leader and union official who played a significant role in coordinating labor relations and production during World War I.
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D.
Andrew Logan
Andrew Logan is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the 2017 historical drama film "Chappaquiddick," which explores the 1969 incident involving Senator Ted Kennedy.
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E.
Gareth Unwin
Gareth Unwin is a British film producer best known for his Academy Award-winning work on the historical drama "The King’s Speech."
- 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 Vaughan Target entity description: Peter Vaughan was a British character actor known for his powerful screen presence in film and television, including roles in works like "Brazil," "Straw Dogs," and later "Game of Thrones."
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A.
John Brett
John Brett was a 19th-century British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, renowned for his highly detailed landscapes and maritime scenes.
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B.
John Cheshire
John Cheshire is a senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of RAF Fighter Command.
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C.
Hugh Frayne
Hugh Frayne was an American labor leader and union official who played a significant role in coordinating labor relations and production during World War I.
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D.
Andrew Logan
Andrew Logan is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the 2017 historical drama film "Chappaquiddick," which explores the 1969 incident involving Senator Ted Kennedy.
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E.
Gareth Unwin
Gareth Unwin is a British film producer best known for his Academy Award-winning work on the historical drama "The King’s Speech."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 Vaughan Description of subject: Peter Vaughan was a British character actor known for his powerful screen presence in film and television, including roles in works like "Brazil," "Straw Dogs," and later "Game of Thrones."
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Brazil
subject linked to:
Legend of 1900
subject linked to:
film "Brazil"
linked to: Peter Vaughan
subject linked to:
Harry Grout in Porridge
subject linked to:
George in The Naked Runner
subject linked to:
Felix Hutchinson in Our Friends in the North