Michael Peters
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Michael Peters was an influential American choreographer and director best known for his innovative work in musical theatre and music videos, including iconic routines for artists like Michael Jackson.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Peters canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8973343 — 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: Michael Peters Context triple: [Dreamgirls (1981 Broadway musical), choreographer, Michael Peters]
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Stephen Peters
Stephen Peters is an American screenwriter best known for writing the neo-noir thriller film "Wild Things."
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Don Peters
Don Peters is a character in Stephen King and Owen King's novel "Sleeping Beauties," involved in the unfolding crisis when women worldwide fall into a mysterious sleep.
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C.
Peter Graham
Peter Graham is a character in the horror film "Hereditary," serving as the teenage son whose psychological unraveling reflects the movie’s escalating supernatural and familial terror.
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D.
Brian Pippard
Brian Pippard was a prominent British physicist known for his pioneering work in superconductivity and for serving as Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge.
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E.
Jeffrey Stott
Jeffrey Stott is a film producer best known for his work on the political comedy film "The American President."
- 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: Michael Peters Target entity description: Michael Peters was an influential American choreographer and director best known for his innovative work in musical theatre and music videos, including iconic routines for artists like Michael Jackson.
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A.
Stephen Peters
Stephen Peters is an American screenwriter best known for writing the neo-noir thriller film "Wild Things."
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B.
Don Peters
Don Peters is a character in Stephen King and Owen King's novel "Sleeping Beauties," involved in the unfolding crisis when women worldwide fall into a mysterious sleep.
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C.
Peter Graham
Peter Graham is a character in the horror film "Hereditary," serving as the teenage son whose psychological unraveling reflects the movie’s escalating supernatural and familial terror.
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D.
Brian Pippard
Brian Pippard was a prominent British physicist known for his pioneering work in superconductivity and for serving as Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge.
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E.
Jeffrey Stott
Jeffrey Stott is a film producer best known for his work on the political comedy film "The American President."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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choreographer ⓘ music video director ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th-century dance
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American popular music industry ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
choreography
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music videos ⓘ musical theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
Broadway-style choreography
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pop music choreography ⓘ |
| influenced |
music video choreography
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stage choreography for pop music ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Broadway musical traditions
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contemporary jazz dance ⓘ |
| knownFor |
bridging Broadway and MTV-era choreography
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creating iconic dance routines for music videos ⓘ |
| notableFor |
choreography for Michael Jackson
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innovative work in music videos ⓘ innovative work in musical theatre ⓘ |
| notableWork |
choreography for Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” music video
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choreography for Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” music video ⓘ |
| occupation |
choreographer
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dancer ⓘ director ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic |
integration of narrative and choreography
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theatrical storytelling through dance ⓘ use of large ensemble dancers ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Diana Ross
NERFINISHED
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Donna Summer NERFINISHED ⓘ Lionel Richie NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ Pat Benatar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Michael Peters Description of subject: Michael Peters was an influential American choreographer and director best known for his innovative work in musical theatre and music videos, including iconic routines for artists like Michael Jackson.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.