UHF
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UHF is a 1989 cult comedy film starring "Weird Al" Yankovic as a daydreaming misfit who turns a failing UHF television station into a bizarre hit.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| UHF canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4099805 — 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: UHF Context triple: [Billy Barty, notableWork, UHF]
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A.
VHF
VHF (Very High Frequency) is a radio frequency range from 30 to 300 MHz widely used for communication, broadcasting, and navigation systems such as the Gee navigation system.
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B.
UHS
UHS is the stock ticker symbol for Universal Health Services, a major U.S.-based hospital and healthcare services company.
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C.
S-band
S-band is a segment of the microwave radio spectrum commonly used for satellite communications, deep space telemetry, and radar applications.
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D.
HFC
HFC is the common abbreviation for Hibernian Football Club, a professional football team based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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E.
UH
UH is the commonly used abbreviation for the University of Helsinki, a major research university in Finland.
- 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: UHF Target entity description: UHF is a 1989 cult comedy film starring "Weird Al" Yankovic as a daydreaming misfit who turns a failing UHF television station into a bizarre hit.
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A.
VHF
VHF (Very High Frequency) is a radio frequency range from 30 to 300 MHz widely used for communication, broadcasting, and navigation systems such as the Gee navigation system.
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B.
UHS
UHS is the stock ticker symbol for Universal Health Services, a major U.S.-based hospital and healthcare services company.
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C.
S-band
S-band is a segment of the microwave radio spectrum commonly used for satellite communications, deep space telemetry, and radar applications.
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D.
HFC
HFC is the common abbreviation for Hibernian Football Club, a professional football team based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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E.
UH
UH is the commonly used abbreviation for the University of Helsinki, a major research university in Finland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedy film
ⓘ
cult film ⓘ film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original story by "Weird Al" Yankovic and Jay Levey ⓘ |
| characterPortrayedBy |
Weird Al Yankovic
ⓘ
surface form:
George Newman – "Weird Al" Yankovic
|
| cinematographyBy | David Lewis ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Jay Levey ⓘ |
| distributedInFormat | 35 mm film ⓘ |
| distributor | Orion Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Paul Millspaugh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Tulsa, Oklahoma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
parody ⓘ |
| hasSoundtrackSong | UHF (title track) ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
parody of television and popular culture
ⓘ
underdog success story ⓘ |
| homeMediaRelease |
Blu-ray
ⓘ
DVD ⓘ VHS ⓘ |
| initialReception | mixed critical reviews ⓘ |
| laterReception | cult following ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | George Newman ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG-13 ⓘ |
| musicBy | John Du Prez ⓘ |
| notableFor | spoofing television shows and films through fake programs and commercials ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A daydreaming misfit turns a failing UHF television station into a bizarre hit with eccentric programming. ⓘ |
| producer |
Gene Kirkwood
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John W. Hyde NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Orion Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1989-07-21 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1989 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 97 ⓘ |
| setting | UHF television station ⓘ |
| soundtrackBy |
Weird Al Yankovic
ⓘ
surface form:
"Weird Al" Yankovic
|
| starring |
Weird Al Yankovic
ⓘ
surface form:
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Billy Barty ⓘ David Bowe ⓘ Fran Drescher ⓘ Gedde Watanabe ⓘ Kevin McCarthy ⓘ Michael Richards ⓘ Victoria Jackson ⓘ |
| title | UHF self-link ⓘ |
| writer |
Weird Al Yankovic
ⓘ
surface form:
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Jay Levey ⓘ |
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: UHF Description of subject: UHF is a 1989 cult comedy film starring "Weird Al" Yankovic as a daydreaming misfit who turns a failing UHF television station into a bizarre hit.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.