Peter Grant
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Peter Grant is the protagonist and apprentice wizard-detective of Ben Aaronovitch’s urban fantasy "Rivers of London" series, where he investigates supernatural crimes in modern-day London.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peter Grant canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6796486 — 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 Grant Context triple: [Ben Aaronovitch, createdCharacter, Peter Grant]
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A.
Peter Grant
Peter Grant is a Scottish National Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament for the Glenrothes constituency in Fife, Scotland.
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B.
Alistair
Alistair is a masculine given name of Scottish origin commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Robert Black
Robert Black is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as music, literature, and law.
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D.
Alan Marshal
Alan Marshal was an Australian-born American actor active in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, known for his roles in mystery and drama films.
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E.
Elgin James
Elgin James is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and former gang member known for creating the television drama series "Mayans M.C." and for his gritty, character-driven storytelling.
- 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 Grant Target entity description: Peter Grant is the protagonist and apprentice wizard-detective of Ben Aaronovitch’s urban fantasy "Rivers of London" series, where he investigates supernatural crimes in modern-day London.
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A.
Peter Grant
Peter Grant is a Scottish National Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament for the Glenrothes constituency in Fife, Scotland.
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B.
Alistair
Alistair is a masculine given name of Scottish origin commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Robert Black
Robert Black is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as music, literature, and law.
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D.
Alan Marshal
Alan Marshal was an Australian-born American actor active in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s, known for his roles in mystery and drama films.
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E.
Elgin James
Elgin James is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and former gang member known for creating the television drama series "Mayans M.C." and for his gritty, character-driven storytelling.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
detective
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fictional character ⓘ police officer ⓘ wizard ⓘ |
| affiliation | British wizarding establishment ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Amongst Our Weapons
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Broken Homes NERFINISHED ⓘ False Value ⓘ Foxglove Summer NERFINISHED ⓘ Lies Sleeping NERFINISHED ⓘ Moon Over Soho NERFINISHED ⓘ Rivers of London NERFINISHED ⓘ The Hanging Tree NERFINISHED ⓘ Whispers Under Ground NERFINISHED ⓘ Winter’s Gifts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium |
comic book
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
| basedIn | Folly, London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalWork | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Ben Aaronovitch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Metropolitan Police Service NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicBackground | mixed race ⓘ |
| father | British jazz musician ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Rivers of London (2011) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | urban fantasy ⓘ |
| hasAbility |
manipulation of magical formae
ⓘ
seeing and sensing supernatural entities ⓘ |
| hasRank | Police Constable ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| magicSystem | forma-based magic ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Folly
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Metropolitan Police Service NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentor | Thomas Nightingale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Nigerian immigrant ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | first-person narrator ⓘ |
| occupation |
apprentice wizard
ⓘ
police constable ⓘ |
| protagonistOf |
Rivers of London
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rivers of London series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisherOfPrimarySeries | Gollancz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
London, England
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surface form:
London
|
| seriesAlsoKnownAs | Rivers of London series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seriesTitle | Peter Grant series ⓘ |
| settingOfActivities | modern-day London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| speciality | investigating supernatural crimes ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Grant Description of subject: Peter Grant is the protagonist and apprentice wizard-detective of Ben Aaronovitch’s urban fantasy "Rivers of London" series, where he investigates supernatural crimes in modern-day London.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.