Peterson
E325102
Peterson is a common English and Scandinavian patronymic surname meaning "son of Peter."
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3083942 — 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: Peterson Context triple: [Peter G. Peterson, familyName, Peterson]
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A.
Peters
Peters is the family name of classic Hollywood film star Carole Lombard, known for her acclaimed roles in 1930s screwball comedies.
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B.
Peters
Peters is a set of early United States Supreme Court case reports compiled by Richard Peters, later incorporated into the official United States Reports.
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C.
Parker
Parker is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as politics, sports, arts, and science.
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D.
Row, Peterson and Company
Row, Peterson and Company was an American educational publishing firm that later became part of the company known as Harper & Row.
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E.
Pettit
Pettit is a surname most notably associated with Bob Pettit, a Hall of Fame American professional basketball player.
- 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: Peterson Target entity description: Peterson is a common English and Scandinavian patronymic surname meaning "son of Peter."
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A.
Peters
Peters is a set of early United States Supreme Court case reports compiled by Richard Peters, later incorporated into the official United States Reports.
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B.
Peters
Peters is the family name of classic Hollywood film star Carole Lombard, known for her acclaimed roles in 1930s screwball comedies.
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C.
Parker
Parker is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as politics, sports, arts, and science.
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D.
Row, Peterson and Company
Row, Peterson and Company was an American educational publishing firm that later became part of the company known as Harper & Row.
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E.
Pettit
Pettit is a surname most notably associated with Bob Pettit, a Hall of Fame American professional basketball player.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
patronymic surname ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| category |
English-language surnames
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Scandinavian surnames ⓘ patronymic surnames ⓘ |
| derivedFromGivenName | Peter ⓘ |
| etymologicalElement |
-son
ⓘ
Pet- ⓘ |
| genderAssociation | traditionally male-line descent ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Petersen
ⓘ
Peterson self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Petterson
Pettersson ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
English
ⓘ
Scandinavian ⓘ |
| meaning | son of Peter ⓘ |
| namingTradition | patronymic naming system ⓘ |
| patronymicFormOf | Peter ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Australia
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Canada ⓘ Denmark ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ Norway ⓘ Sweden ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
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: Peterson Description of subject: Peterson is a common English and Scandinavian patronymic surname meaning "son of Peter."
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Edward J. Peterson
subject surface form:
Zaria Peterson
this entity surface form:
Petterson