Roger Peterson
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Roger Peterson was the 21-year-old pilot who died along with musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson in the 1959 plane crash later memorialized as "The Day the Music Died."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Roger Peterson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16099741 — 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: Roger Peterson Context triple: [The Day the Music Died, killed, Roger Peterson]
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A.
Tom Georgeson
Tom Georgeson is a British character actor known for his work in film and television, including roles in comedies, dramas, and crime series.
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B.
David Wickes
David Wickes is a British film and television director known for his work on crime dramas and period pieces, including notable adaptations of classic detective stories.
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C.
Robert E. Petersen
Robert E. Petersen was an American publisher and entrepreneur best known for founding Hot Rod and Motor Trend magazines and for his significant contributions to automotive culture.
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D.
Gordon Cunningham
Gordon Cunningham is a fictional character from the British soap opera "Hollyoaks," known as the long-suffering patriarch of the Cunningham family.
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E.
Milton Rackmil
Milton Rackmil was an American film industry executive best known as the co-founder and president of Universal-International Pictures and later head of Universal Pictures.
- 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: Roger Peterson Target entity description: Roger Peterson was the 21-year-old pilot who died along with musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson in the 1959 plane crash later memorialized as "The Day the Music Died."
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A.
Tom Georgeson
Tom Georgeson is a British character actor known for his work in film and television, including roles in comedies, dramas, and crime series.
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B.
David Wickes
David Wickes is a British film and television director known for his work on crime dramas and period pieces, including notable adaptations of classic detective stories.
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C.
Robert E. Petersen
Robert E. Petersen was an American publisher and entrepreneur best known for founding Hot Rod and Motor Trend magazines and for his significant contributions to automotive culture.
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D.
Gordon Cunningham
Gordon Cunningham is a fictional character from the British soap opera "Hollyoaks," known as the long-suffering patriarch of the Cunningham family.
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E.
Milton Rackmil
Milton Rackmil was an American film industry executive best known as the co-founder and president of Universal-International Pictures and later head of Universal Pictures.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.