Peter Smillie
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Peter Smillie is a music video director known for his work on high-profile pop and R&B videos in the late 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Peter Smillie canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3230062 — 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 Smillie Context triple: [Escapade, musicVideoDirector, Peter Smillie]
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A.
David Pegg
David Pegg was an English footballer who played as a left winger for Manchester United's famed "Busby Babes" before his life was tragically cut short in the Munich air disaster of 1958.
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B.
Alasdair Steedman
Alasdair Steedman was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to high command, including leadership of the RAF’s Fighter Command.
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C.
Colin Goudie
Colin Goudie is a film editor known for his work on major feature films, including the fantasy action movie "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword."
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D.
Adrian Orr
Adrian Orr is a New Zealand economist and central banker who serves as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, overseeing the country’s monetary policy and financial stability.
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E.
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.
- 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 Smillie Target entity description: Peter Smillie is a music video director known for his work on high-profile pop and R&B videos in the late 20th century.
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A.
David Pegg
David Pegg was an English footballer who played as a left winger for Manchester United's famed "Busby Babes" before his life was tragically cut short in the Munich air disaster of 1958.
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B.
Alasdair Steedman
Alasdair Steedman was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to high command, including leadership of the RAF’s Fighter Command.
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C.
Colin Goudie
Colin Goudie is a film editor known for his work on major feature films, including the fantasy action movie "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword."
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D.
Adrian Orr
Adrian Orr is a New Zealand economist and central banker who serves as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, overseeing the country’s monetary policy and financial stability.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
director
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music video director ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| fieldOfWork | music videos ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization |
R&B
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pop ⓘ |
| industry | music video industry ⓘ |
| notability | known for high-profile music videos ⓘ |
| notableFor |
directing R&B music videos
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directing pop music videos ⓘ |
| occupation | music video director ⓘ |
| workPeriod | late 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 Smillie Description of subject: Peter Smillie is a music video director known for his work on high-profile pop and R&B videos in the late 20th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.