Peter Madden
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Peter Madden was a British character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television, often portraying authority figures or villains.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Peter Madden canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2041825 — 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 Madden Context triple: [Embassy, castMember, Peter Madden]
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A.
Peter Mathieson
Peter Mathieson is a British nephrologist and academic leader who has served as principal and vice-chancellor of major universities, including the University of Edinburgh and the University of Hong Kong.
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B.
Peter Jones
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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C.
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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D.
Peter Andrews
Peter Andrews is the cinematographer pseudonym used by acclaimed American filmmaker Steven Soderbergh for his work behind the camera on films such as "The Informant!".
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E.
Russell Mulcahy
Russell Mulcahy is an Australian film and music video director best known for his stylish, pioneering work in the early MTV era and for directing the cult fantasy film "Highlander."
- 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 Madden Target entity description: Peter Madden was a British character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television, often portraying authority figures or villains.
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A.
Peter Mathieson
Peter Mathieson is a British nephrologist and academic leader who has served as principal and vice-chancellor of major universities, including the University of Edinburgh and the University of Hong Kong.
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B.
Peter Jones
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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C.
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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D.
Peter Andrews
Peter Andrews is the cinematographer pseudonym used by acclaimed American filmmaker Steven Soderbergh for his work behind the camera on films such as "The Informant!".
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E.
Russell Mulcahy
Russell Mulcahy is an Australian film and music video director best known for his stylish, pioneering work in the early MTV era and for directing the cult fantasy film "Highlander."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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character actor ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
portraying authority figures
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portraying villains ⓘ supporting roles in mid-20th-century film ⓘ supporting roles in mid-20th-century television ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
British film industry
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British television industry ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| workPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
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 Madden Description of subject: Peter Madden was a British character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television, often portraying authority figures or villains.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.