Peter Breck
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Peter Breck was an American actor best known for his role as the hot-tempered Nick Barkley on the 1960s Western television series "The Big Valley."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peter Breck canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6464647 — 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 Breck Context triple: [The Big Valley, starred, Peter Breck]
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A.
Scott Hamilton
Scott Hamilton is an American figure skating champion and Olympic gold medalist who later became a prominent television commentator and public figure.
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B.
Billy Jacobs
Billy Jacobs was an early 20th-century American child actor who appeared in silent films.
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C.
Eddie Kaspbrak
Eddie Kaspbrak is a hypochondriac yet brave member of the Losers' Club in Stephen King's horror novel "It," known for his overbearing mother and eventual courage in confronting the entity terrorizing Derry.
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D.
Ondrej Nepela
Ondrej Nepela was a Slovak figure skater and 1972 Olympic champion, regarded as one of the most successful skaters of his era.
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E.
Dick Resch
Dick Resch is an American businessman and former CEO of furniture manufacturer KI, known for his significant philanthropic contributions, including funding the Resch Center arena in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
- 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 Breck Target entity description: Peter Breck was an American actor best known for his role as the hot-tempered Nick Barkley on the 1960s Western television series "The Big Valley."
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A.
Scott Hamilton
Scott Hamilton is an American figure skating champion and Olympic gold medalist who later became a prominent television commentator and public figure.
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B.
Billy Jacobs
Billy Jacobs was an early 20th-century American child actor who appeared in silent films.
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C.
Eddie Kaspbrak
Eddie Kaspbrak is a hypochondriac yet brave member of the Losers' Club in Stephen King's horror novel "It," known for his overbearing mother and eventual courage in confronting the entity terrorizing Derry.
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D.
Ondrej Nepela
Ondrej Nepela was a Slovak figure skater and 1972 Olympic champion, regarded as one of the most successful skaters of his era.
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E.
Dick Resch
Dick Resch is an American businessman and former CEO of furniture manufacturer KI, known for his significant philanthropic contributions, including funding the Resch Center arena in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
Canada
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | dementia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1929-03-13 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2012-02-06 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Houston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Breck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | Western ⓘ |
| givenName | Peter ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium |
film
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| militaryService | United States Navy ⓘ |
| name | Peter Breck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | portrayal of Nick Barkley in The Big Valley ⓘ |
| notableRole | Nick Barkley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Big Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Rochester, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedIn | Korean War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Diane Breck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Benji
NERFINISHED
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Black Saddle NERFINISHED ⓘ Maverick NERFINISHED ⓘ Perry Mason NERFINISHED ⓘ The Big Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ The Virginian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1950s–2000s ⓘ |
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 Breck Description of subject: Peter Breck was an American actor best known for his role as the hot-tempered Nick Barkley on the 1960s Western television series "The Big Valley."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.