Peter Jones
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Peter Jones was a British actor and comedian best known for his distinctive voice work, including as the narrator in the original radio series of "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peter Jones canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1801240 — 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 Jones Context triple: [A Stitch in Time, starring, Peter Jones]
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A.
Simon Jones
Simon Jones is a British actor best known for playing Arthur Dent in the original radio and television adaptations of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
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B.
Peter Jay
Peter Jay was a prominent New York merchant and landowner of the 18th century, best known as the father of American statesman and first Chief Justice John Jay.
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C.
Keith Jones
Keith Jones is a former NHL forward turned broadcaster and executive who now serves as president of the Philadelphia Flyers.
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D.
Alexander Jones
Alexander Jones was a Catholic biblical scholar and priest best known for overseeing and editing the English translation of the Jerusalem Bible in the 1960s.
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E.
Peter Jacob
Peter Jacob was the first husband of German filmmaker and photographer Leni Riefenstahl.
- 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 Jones Target entity description: Peter Jones was a British actor and comedian best known for his distinctive voice work, including as the narrator in the original radio series of "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy."
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A.
Simon Jones
Simon Jones is a British actor best known for playing Arthur Dent in the original radio and television adaptations of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
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B.
Peter Jay
Peter Jay was a prominent New York merchant and landowner of the 18th century, best known as the father of American statesman and first Chief Justice John Jay.
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C.
Keith Jones
Keith Jones is a former NHL forward turned broadcaster and executive who now serves as president of the Philadelphia Flyers.
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D.
Alexander Jones
Alexander Jones was a Catholic biblical scholar and priest best known for overseeing and editing the English translation of the Jerusalem Bible in the 1960s.
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E.
Peter Jacob
Peter Jacob was the first husband of German filmmaker and photographer Leni Riefenstahl.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ human ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film acting
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radio acting ⓘ television acting ⓘ voice-over performance ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| hasNotableCharacteristic |
distinctive vocal delivery
ⓘ
dry wit ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
distinctive voice
ⓘ
narration ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (television series) ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| partOf | British radio comedy tradition ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| voiceRole |
The Book in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)
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The Book in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (television series) ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
United Kingdom ⓘ |
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 Jones Description of subject: Peter Jones was a British actor and comedian best known for his distinctive voice work, including as the narrator in the original radio series of "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy."
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.