Peter Guillam
E246496
Peter Guillam is a loyal, resourceful British intelligence officer and close ally of spymaster George Smiley in John le Carré’s espionage novels.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peter Guillam canonical | 12 |
| Peter Guillam (implied in some interpretations) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2250434 — 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 Guillam Context triple: [Smiley’s People, character, Peter Guillam]
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A.
Harry Palmer
Harry Palmer is the central protagonist of the musical film "For Me and My Gal," around whom the story’s romantic and dramatic events revolve.
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B.
Mike Southon
Mike Southon is a British cinematographer known for his work on feature films, television, and commercials.
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C.
Hugo Carmody
Hugo Carmody is a charming, somewhat hapless young gentleman from P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories, often embroiled in romantic entanglements and comic misadventures.
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D.
Michael Foale
Michael Foale is a British-American astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut renowned for his long-duration missions on the Space Shuttle and Mir, and for being one of the most experienced spacefarers in history.
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E.
Jacques Bergerac
Jacques Bergerac was a French actor and businessman known for his film roles in the 1950s and 1960s and for his high-profile marriages to Hollywood stars.
- 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 Guillam Target entity description: Peter Guillam is a loyal, resourceful British intelligence officer and close ally of spymaster George Smiley in John le Carré’s espionage novels.
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A.
Harry Palmer
Harry Palmer is the central protagonist of the musical film "For Me and My Gal," around whom the story’s romantic and dramatic events revolve.
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B.
Mike Southon
Mike Southon is a British cinematographer known for his work on feature films, television, and commercials.
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C.
Hugo Carmody
Hugo Carmody is a charming, somewhat hapless young gentleman from P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories, often embroiled in romantic entanglements and comic misadventures.
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D.
Michael Foale
Michael Foale is a British-American astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut renowned for his long-duration missions on the Space Shuttle and Mir, and for being one of the most experienced spacefarers in history.
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E.
Jacques Bergerac
Jacques Bergerac was a French actor and businessman known for his film roles in the 1950s and 1960s and for his high-profile marriages to Hollywood stars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
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 Guillam Description of subject: Peter Guillam is a loyal, resourceful British intelligence officer and close ally of spymaster George Smiley in John le Carré’s espionage novels.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Smiley’s People (novel)
subject linked to:
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (novel)
linked to: Peter Guillam
subject linked to:
The Circus (fictional British intelligence service)