W. Peter Iliff
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W. Peter Iliff is an American screenwriter best known for writing the action film "Point Break" and other major Hollywood thrillers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| W. Peter Iliff canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7288170 — 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: W. Peter Iliff Context triple: [Patriot Games, screenwriter, W. Peter Iliff]
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A.
Dr. Peter Leavitt
Dr. Peter Leavitt is a key scientist in Michael Crichton’s science fiction novel "The Andromeda Strain," involved in the high-stakes investigation of a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism.
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B.
Robert M. Weitman
Robert M. Weitman was an American film producer active in mid-20th-century Hollywood, known for overseeing a range of studio features and genre films.
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C.
Kenneth W. Hess
Kenneth W. Hess is an aerospace and safety expert who served on the Columbia Accident Investigation Board that examined the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
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D.
Randolph M. Nesse
Randolph M. Nesse is an American physician and evolutionary biologist known for pioneering the field of evolutionary medicine and coauthoring influential works on the evolutionary origins of disease.
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E.
Harvey V. Fineberg
Harvey V. Fineberg is an American physician and public health scholar known for his leadership roles in major health and philanthropic institutions, including serving as president of the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine).
- 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: W. Peter Iliff Target entity description: W. Peter Iliff is an American screenwriter best known for writing the action film "Point Break" and other major Hollywood thrillers.
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A.
Dr. Peter Leavitt
Dr. Peter Leavitt is a key scientist in Michael Crichton’s science fiction novel "The Andromeda Strain," involved in the high-stakes investigation of a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism.
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B.
Robert M. Weitman
Robert M. Weitman was an American film producer active in mid-20th-century Hollywood, known for overseeing a range of studio features and genre films.
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C.
Kenneth W. Hess
Kenneth W. Hess is an aerospace and safety expert who served on the Columbia Accident Investigation Board that examined the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
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D.
Randolph M. Nesse
Randolph M. Nesse is an American physician and evolutionary biologist known for pioneering the field of evolutionary medicine and coauthoring influential works on the evolutionary origins of disease.
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E.
Harvey V. Fineberg
Harvey V. Fineberg is an American physician and public health scholar known for his leadership roles in major health and philanthropic institutions, including serving as president of the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American writer
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feature film ⓘ film director ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | American cinema ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Iliff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film industry
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screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
action film
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action film ⓘ crime thriller film ⓘ sports drama film ⓘ sports drama film ⓘ sports drama film ⓘ thriller film ⓘ thriller film ⓘ |
| givenName | Peter ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | W. Peter Iliff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
writing Hollywood thrillers
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writing the action film Point Break ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Patriot Games
NERFINISHED
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Point Break NERFINISHED ⓘ The Perfect Game NERFINISHED ⓘ Under Suspicion NERFINISHED ⓘ Varsity Blues NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| originalLanguage |
English
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English ⓘ English ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
W. Peter Iliff
NERFINISHED
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W. Peter Iliff NERFINISHED ⓘ W. Peter Iliff NERFINISHED ⓘ W. Peter Iliff NERFINISHED ⓘ W. Peter Iliff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hollywood
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Los Angeles ⓘ |
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: W. Peter Iliff Description of subject: W. Peter Iliff is an American screenwriter best known for writing the action film "Point Break" and other major Hollywood thrillers.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.