BBC television serial
E260897
The BBC television serial is a 1979 British adaptation of John le Carré’s espionage novel "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," acclaimed for its faithful storytelling and Alec Guinness’s iconic portrayal of George Smiley.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| BBC television serial canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2386225 — 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: BBC television serial Context triple: [Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, adaptedAs, BBC television serial]
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A.
CBC Television
CBC Television is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s national English-language television network, offering news, entertainment, and cultural programming across Canada.
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B.
BBC television services
BBC television services are the collection of television channels and platforms operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation, including national, regional, and specialized services across the UK.
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C.
BBC One
BBC One is the BBC’s flagship television channel in the United Kingdom, known for broadcasting a wide range of popular news, drama, comedy, and entertainment programs.
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D.
BBC Two
BBC Two is a British television channel operated by the BBC, known for its diverse and often more experimental programming, including comedy, drama, documentaries, and arts content.
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E.
BBC Drama Department
The BBC Drama Department is the division of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for developing and producing the organization’s television drama content.
- 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: BBC television serial Target entity description: The BBC television serial is a 1979 British adaptation of John le Carré’s espionage novel "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," acclaimed for its faithful storytelling and Alec Guinness’s iconic portrayal of George Smiley.
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A.
CBC Television
CBC Television is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s national English-language television network, offering news, entertainment, and cultural programming across Canada.
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B.
BBC television services
BBC television services are the collection of television channels and platforms operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation, including national, regional, and specialized services across the UK.
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C.
BBC One
BBC One is the BBC’s flagship television channel in the United Kingdom, known for broadcasting a wide range of popular news, drama, comedy, and entertainment programs.
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D.
BBC Two
BBC Two is a British television channel operated by the BBC, known for its diverse and often more experimental programming, including comedy, drama, documentaries, and arts content.
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E.
BBC Drama Department
The BBC Drama Department is the division of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for developing and producing the organization’s television drama content.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: BBC television serial Description of subject: The BBC television serial is a 1979 British adaptation of John le Carré’s espionage novel "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," acclaimed for its faithful storytelling and Alec Guinness’s iconic portrayal of George Smiley.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy