Peter
E30437
Peter is a common male given name of Greek origin, widely used in many languages and cultures, often associated with the meaning "rock" or "stone."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peter canonical | 634 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T188813 — 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 Context triple: [Pierre, cognateWith, Peter]
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A.
Jack
Jack is a common masculine given name, often used as a familiar form of John and widely featured in English-language literature and popular culture.
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B.
Stephen
Stephen is the middle name of Harold Stephen Black, an American electrical engineer known for inventing the negative feedback amplifier.
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C.
Adam
Adam is the first human in Abrahamic religious traditions, whose disobedience in Eden is believed to have introduced sin into the human condition.
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D.
Harry
Harry is the given name of Harry S. Truman, the 33rd president of the United States who led the country through the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War.
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E.
Timothy
Timothy is the given first name of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web.
- 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 Target entity description: Peter is a common male given name of Greek origin, widely used in many languages and cultures, often associated with the meaning "rock" or "stone."
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A.
Jack
Jack is a common masculine given name, often used as a familiar form of John and widely featured in English-language literature and popular culture.
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B.
Stephen
Stephen is the middle name of Harold Stephen Black, an American electrical engineer known for inventing the negative feedback amplifier.
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C.
Adam
Adam is the first human in Abrahamic religious traditions, whose disobedience in Eden is believed to have introduced sin into the human condition.
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D.
Harry
Harry is the given name of Harry S. Truman, the 33rd president of the United States who led the country through the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War.
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E.
Timothy
Timothy is the given first name of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English masculine given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ male given name ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
masculine given names
ⓘ
names derived from Greek ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalForm | Petros ⓘ |
| hasGender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasMeaning |
rock
ⓘ
stone ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | Greek language ⓘ |
| hasPopularity | common given name ⓘ |
| hasScriptForm | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| hasShortForm |
Pete
ⓘ
Petey ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Peder
ⓘ
Pedro ⓘ Petar ⓘ Petr ⓘ Pierre ⓘ Pieter ⓘ Pietro ⓘ |
| isAssociatedWith |
Christian tradition
ⓘ
Apostle Peter ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Peter
|
| isUsedIn |
Dutch
ⓘ
surface form:
Dutch language
English ⓘ
surface form:
English language
German ⓘ
surface form:
German language
Scandinavian languages ⓘ Slavic languages ⓘ many countries ⓘ many cultures ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: Peter is a common male given name of Greek origin, widely used in many languages and cultures, often associated with the meaning "rock" or "stone."
Referenced by (634)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jan Peter Balkenende
subject surface form:
Jan Peter Balkenende
subject surface form:
Peter Muhlenberg
subject surface form:
Peter de la Billière