Captain Peacock
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Captain Peacock is the pompous, rule-obsessed floorwalker character from the British sitcom "Are You Being Served?"
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Captain Peacock canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11800917 — 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: Captain Peacock Context triple: [Frank Thornton, notableWork, Captain Peacock]
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A.
Captain Plume
Captain Plume is the charming, roguish army officer who serves as the central romantic and comedic figure in George Farquhar’s Restoration comedy "The Recruiting Officer."
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B.
Captain Barfoot
Captain Barfoot is a minor character in Virginia Woolf’s novel "Jacob’s Room," representing the older generation’s traditional values and perspectives within the book’s modernist portrayal of early 20th-century English society.
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C.
Cap’n Cook
Cap’n Cook is the street name used by Jesse Pinkman, a small-time methamphetamine manufacturer and dealer in the television series "Breaking Bad."
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D.
Captain Brice
Captain Brice is a minor character in Tom Stoppard’s play "Arcadia," serving as a military officer connected to the aristocratic household around which the drama’s events unfold.
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E.
Captain Shotover
Captain Shotover is an eccentric, elderly sea captain and amateur inventor who serves as a central figure and philosophical commentator in George Bernard Shaw’s play "Heartbreak House."
- 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: Captain Peacock Target entity description: Captain Peacock is the pompous, rule-obsessed floorwalker character from the British sitcom "Are You Being Served?"
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A.
Captain Plume
Captain Plume is the charming, roguish army officer who serves as the central romantic and comedic figure in George Farquhar’s Restoration comedy "The Recruiting Officer."
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B.
Captain Barfoot
Captain Barfoot is a minor character in Virginia Woolf’s novel "Jacob’s Room," representing the older generation’s traditional values and perspectives within the book’s modernist portrayal of early 20th-century English society.
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C.
Cap’n Cook
Cap’n Cook is the street name used by Jesse Pinkman, a small-time methamphetamine manufacturer and dealer in the television series "Breaking Bad."
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D.
Captain Brice
Captain Brice is a minor character in Tom Stoppard’s play "Arcadia," serving as a military officer connected to the aristocratic household around which the drama’s events unfold.
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E.
Captain Shotover
Captain Shotover is an eccentric, elderly sea captain and amateur inventor who serves as a central figure and philosophical commentator in George Bernard Shaw’s play "Heartbreak House."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Are You Being Served? ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Miss Brahms
ⓘ
Mr. Grainger ⓘ Mr. Humphries ⓘ Mr. Rumbold ⓘ
linked to:
Mr. Cuthbert Rumbold
Mrs. Slocombe ⓘ
linked to:
Mrs. Betty Slocombe
|
| basedIn |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| broadcastOn | BBC ⓘ |
| countryOfWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy |
David Croft
ⓘ
Jeremy Lloyd ⓘ |
| createdFor | British television audience ⓘ |
| dressStyle | formal suit ⓘ |
| employer | Grace Brothers ⓘ |
| familyName | Peacock ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Are You Being Served? universe ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Are You Being Served? series 1 ⓘ |
| fullName | Stephen Peacock ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | sitcom ⓘ |
| givenName | Stephen ⓘ |
| hairColor | grey ⓘ |
| humorStyle | character-based comedy ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| militaryBackground | former army captain ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
formal manner and bearing
ⓘ
strict adherence to store rules ⓘ |
| occupation |
floorwalker
ⓘ
senior sales assistant ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
authoritarian
ⓘ
pompous ⓘ pretentious ⓘ rule-obsessed ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Frank Thornton ⓘ |
| position | floorwalker of the menswear department ⓘ |
| roleInSeries |
mediates between staff and management
ⓘ
supervises sales staff ⓘ |
| setting | Grace Brothers department store ⓘ |
| spouse |
Mrs. Peacock
ⓘ
linked to:
Mrs Peacock
|
| title | Captain ⓘ |
| worksIn | menswear department ⓘ |
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: Captain Peacock Description of subject: Captain Peacock is the pompous, rule-obsessed floorwalker character from the British sitcom "Are You Being Served?"
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Jane Thornton