Captain Stephen Peacock
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Captain Stephen Peacock is the pompous, rule-obsessed floorwalker from the British sitcom "Are You Being Served?", known for his officious manner and comic interactions with the store staff.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Captain Stephen Peacock canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11800918 — 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: Captain Stephen Peacock Context triple: [Frank Thornton, characterRole, Captain Stephen Peacock]
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A.
Captain Richard Davenport
Captain Richard Davenport is a Black Army lawyer and investigator who serves as the central figure unraveling a racially charged murder case in Charles Fuller's play "A Soldier's Play."
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B.
Captain Daniel Forrester
Captain Daniel Forrester is a prominent fictional figure in Willa Cather’s novel "A Lost Lady," portrayed as a once-powerful, idealized railroad pioneer whose decline mirrors the fading of the American frontier aristocracy.
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C.
Captain Keith Mallory
Captain Keith Mallory is the resourceful New Zealand mountaineer and Allied commando leader who spearheads the perilous mission to destroy the German guns in Alistair MacLean’s World War II novel "The Guns of Navarone."
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D.
Captain Richard Pearson
Captain Richard Pearson was an 18th-century British naval officer best known for his role in the 1779 Battle of Flamborough Head against John Paul Jones during the American Revolutionary War.
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E.
Captain Frank McNeil
Captain Frank McNeil is a fictional New York City police captain from the television series "Kojak," known as the superior and colleague of the title character.
- 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: Captain Stephen Peacock Target entity description: Captain Stephen Peacock is the pompous, rule-obsessed floorwalker from the British sitcom "Are You Being Served?", known for his officious manner and comic interactions with the store staff.
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A.
Captain Richard Davenport
Captain Richard Davenport is a Black Army lawyer and investigator who serves as the central figure unraveling a racially charged murder case in Charles Fuller's play "A Soldier's Play."
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B.
Captain Daniel Forrester
Captain Daniel Forrester is a prominent fictional figure in Willa Cather’s novel "A Lost Lady," portrayed as a once-powerful, idealized railroad pioneer whose decline mirrors the fading of the American frontier aristocracy.
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C.
Captain Keith Mallory
Captain Keith Mallory is the resourceful New Zealand mountaineer and Allied commando leader who spearheads the perilous mission to destroy the German guns in Alistair MacLean’s World War II novel "The Guns of Navarone."
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D.
Captain Richard Pearson
Captain Richard Pearson was an 18th-century British naval officer best known for his role in the 1779 Battle of Flamborough Head against John Paul Jones during the American Revolutionary War.
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E.
Captain Frank McNeil
Captain Frank McNeil is a fictional New York City police captain from the television series "Kojak," known as the superior and colleague of the title character.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Are You Being Served? NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| comicDevice |
conflicts between status and actual authority
ⓘ
rigid enforcement of store rules ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| department | menswear floor supervision ⓘ |
| employer | Grace Brothers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Peacock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Are You Being Served? universe ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceIn | Are You Being Served? (series 1) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Stephen Peacock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
sitcom ⓘ |
| givenName | Stephen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
authoritarian
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comically ineffectual ⓘ officious ⓘ pompous ⓘ rule-obsessed ⓘ snobbish ⓘ status-conscious ⓘ |
| interactsWith |
Miss Brahms
NERFINISHED
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Mr. Grainger NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr. Humphries NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr. Lucas NERFINISHED ⓘ Mrs. Slocombe NERFINISHED ⓘ Young Mr. Grace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCentralCharacterIn | Are You Being Served? NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| militaryBackground | former army captain ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
authority figure
ⓘ
comic character ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | British ⓘ |
| occupation |
department store employee
ⓘ
floorwalker ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Frank Thornton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| position | floorwalker at Grace Brothers ⓘ |
| relationshipToOtherCharacters | superior to sales staff on the floor ⓘ |
| seriesOrigin | BBC television ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | London department store ⓘ |
| title | Captain ⓘ |
| usesCatchphrase | Are you free? ⓘ |
| workOfFictionType | television sitcom ⓘ |
| worksInFictionalLocation | Grace Brothers department store 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: Captain Stephen Peacock Description of subject: Captain Stephen Peacock is the pompous, rule-obsessed floorwalker from the British sitcom "Are You Being Served?", known for his officious manner and comic interactions with the store staff.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.