Mr. Peachum
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Mr. Peachum is a central character in John Gay's satirical ballad opera "The Beggar's Opera," known as a corrupt thief-catcher who profits from turning in his own criminal associates.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mr. Peachum canonical | 9 |
| Macheath (The Threepenny Opera) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T242440 — 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: Mr. Peachum Context triple: [The Beggar's Opera, hasCharacter, Mr. Peachum]
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A.
Polly Peachum
Polly Peachum is a central heroine of John Gay's 18th-century ballad opera "The Beggar's Opera," known for her romantic involvement with the highwayman Macheath and her role in satirizing contemporary society.
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B.
Tom Canty
Tom Canty is the impoverished London boy who swaps identities with Prince Edward in Mark Twain’s novel "The Prince and the Pauper," highlighting themes of class and social injustice.
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C.
Willy
Willy is a common diminutive form of the given name William, often used as an informal or affectionate nickname.
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D.
Frank Heart
Frank Heart was an American computer engineer best known for leading the team that built the first Interface Message Processors, the packet-switching nodes that formed the backbone of the early ARPANET and laid groundwork for the modern internet.
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E.
Ichabod Crane
Ichabod Crane is the superstitious, lanky schoolteacher whose eerie encounter with the Headless Horseman drives the plot of Washington Irving’s classic ghost story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
- 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: Mr. Peachum Target entity description: Mr. Peachum is a central character in John Gay's satirical ballad opera "The Beggar's Opera," known as a corrupt thief-catcher who profits from turning in his own criminal associates.
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A.
Polly Peachum
Polly Peachum is a central heroine of John Gay's 18th-century ballad opera "The Beggar's Opera," known for her romantic involvement with the highwayman Macheath and her role in satirizing contemporary society.
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B.
Tom Canty
Tom Canty is the impoverished London boy who swaps identities with Prince Edward in Mark Twain’s novel "The Prince and the Pauper," highlighting themes of class and social injustice.
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C.
Willy
Willy is a common diminutive form of the given name William, often used as an informal or affectionate nickname.
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D.
Frank Heart
Frank Heart was an American computer engineer best known for leading the team that built the first Interface Message Processors, the packet-switching nodes that formed the backbone of the early ARPANET and laid groundwork for the modern internet.
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E.
Ichabod Crane
Ichabod Crane is the superstitious, lanky schoolteacher whose eerie encounter with the Headless Horseman drives the plot of Washington Irving’s classic ghost story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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opera character ⓘ theatrical character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Beggar's Opera ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | satire ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
corruption
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crime ⓘ hypocrisy ⓘ justice system satire ⓘ |
| characterIn | The Beggar's Opera ⓘ |
| controls | network of thieves ⓘ |
| createdBy | John Gay ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Beggar's Opera ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | ballad opera ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | contemporary criminal underworld of London ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 18th-century English literature ⓘ |
| mediumOfAppearance | stage ⓘ |
| moralAlignment | corrupt ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
profiting from turning in his own criminal associates
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satirical representation of corruption ⓘ |
| occupation |
fence
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thief-catcher ⓘ |
| profitsFrom | informing on thieves ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative | central character ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| turnsIn | his own criminal associates ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 1728 ⓘ |
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: Mr. Peachum Description of subject: Mr. Peachum is a central character in John Gay's satirical ballad opera "The Beggar's Opera," known as a corrupt thief-catcher who profits from turning in his own criminal associates.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Macheath (The Threepenny Opera)