Ghosts (British TV series)
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Ghosts is a British comedy television series about a young couple who inherit a crumbling country mansion inhabited by a motley group of eccentric ghosts from different historical eras.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ghosts (British TV series) canonical | 1 |
| Ghosts (US TV series) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13114770 — 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: Ghosts (British TV series) Context triple: [Simon Farnaby, participatedIn, Ghosts (British TV series)]
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A.
Ghosts I–IV
Ghosts I–IV is an experimental, mostly instrumental album by Nine Inch Nails that explores ambient, industrial, and electronic soundscapes across four themed volumes.
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B.
Waking the Dead
Waking the Dead is a British crime drama television series centered on a specialist police unit that reopens and investigates cold cases using modern forensic and psychological techniques.
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C.
Waking the Dead
Waking the Dead is a 2000 romantic drama film exploring love, loss, and political idealism, starring Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly.
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D.
Ghosts
Ghosts is an 1881 realist drama by Henrik Ibsen that critiques social hypocrisy and explores themes of inherited guilt, morality, and the oppressive constraints of 19th-century society.
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E.
Ghosts
Ghosts are an elite, covert special operations unit featured as the main playable squad in the Call of Duty: Ghosts campaign.
- 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: Ghosts (British TV series) Target entity description: Ghosts is a British comedy television series about a young couple who inherit a crumbling country mansion inhabited by a motley group of eccentric ghosts from different historical eras.
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A.
Ghosts I–IV
Ghosts I–IV is an experimental, mostly instrumental album by Nine Inch Nails that explores ambient, industrial, and electronic soundscapes across four themed volumes.
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B.
Waking the Dead
Waking the Dead is a British crime drama television series centered on a specialist police unit that reopens and investigates cold cases using modern forensic and psychological techniques.
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C.
Waking the Dead
Waking the Dead is a 2000 romantic drama film exploring love, loss, and political idealism, starring Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly.
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D.
Ghosts
Ghosts is an 1881 realist drama by Henrik Ibsen that critiques social hypocrisy and explores themes of inherited guilt, morality, and the oppressive constraints of 19th-century society.
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E.
Ghosts
Ghosts are an elite, covert special operations unit featured as the main playable squad in the Call of Duty: Ghosts campaign.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British television series
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fantasy comedy television series ⓘ sitcom ⓘ |
| basedOn | original concept by the cast of Horrible Histories ⓘ |
| broadcastOn | BBC One NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator |
BBC
NERFINISHED
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Ben Willbond NERFINISHED ⓘ Jim Howick NERFINISHED ⓘ Laurence Rickard NERFINISHED ⓘ Martha Howe-Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ Mathew Baynton NERFINISHED ⓘ Simon Farnaby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| debutedOnChannel | BBC One NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | West Horsley Place, Surrey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAired | 2019 ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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fantasy ⓘ sitcom ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | Ghosts (American TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Humphrey Bone
NERFINISHED
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Julian Fawcett NERFINISHED ⓘ Kitty NERFINISHED ⓘ Lady Fanny Button NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ Pat Butcher NERFINISHED ⓘ Robin the Caveman NERFINISHED ⓘ The Captain NERFINISHED ⓘ The Plague Ghosts NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Thorne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspired | Ghosts (American TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadActor |
Ben Willbond
NERFINISHED
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Charlotte Ritchie NERFINISHED ⓘ Jim Howick NERFINISHED ⓘ Kiell Smith-Bynoe NERFINISHED ⓘ Laurence Rickard NERFINISHED ⓘ Martha Howe-Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ Mathew Baynton NERFINISHED ⓘ Simon Farnaby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Alison Cooper
NERFINISHED
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Mike Cooper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | ensemble cast of former Horrible Histories performers ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 35 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeries | 5 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | BBC One ⓘ |
| pictureFormat | HDTV ⓘ |
| premise | A young couple inherit a dilapidated country house inhabited by ghosts from different historical periods ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
BBC Studios
NERFINISHED
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Monumental Television NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonist |
Alison Cooper
NERFINISHED
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Mike Cooper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Button House
NERFINISHED
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country mansion in the English countryside ⓘ |
| targetAudience | family audience ⓘ |
| theme |
British history through comic lens
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coexistence of living and dead ⓘ |
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Input
Subject: Ghosts (British TV series) Description of subject: Ghosts is a British comedy television series about a young couple who inherit a crumbling country mansion inhabited by a motley group of eccentric ghosts from different historical eras.
Referenced by (2)
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this entity surface form:
Ghosts (US TV series)