The Builders
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"The Builders" is a classic episode of the British sitcom Fawlty Towers in which a disastrously cheap construction job wreaks havoc on Basil Fawlty's hotel.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Builders canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4170187 — 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: The Builders Context triple: [Fawlty Towers, hasEpisode, The Builders]
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A.
The Builders
The Builders is a modernist painting by French artist Fernand Léger that depicts construction workers amid geometric forms, celebrating industrialization and urban life.
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B.
Man the Builder
Man the Builder was a themed exhibition area at Montreal’s Man and His World fair that focused on human ingenuity in architecture, engineering, and construction.
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C.
The Stonemason
The Stonemason is a stage play by American author Cormac McCarthy that explores family conflict, legacy, and moral decay within a multigenerational African American family.
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D.
El hacedor
El hacedor is a 1960 collection of short prose pieces and poems by Jorge Luis Borges that explores themes of time, identity, and the nature of authorship in his characteristically metafictional style.
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E.
City of Workers
"City of Workers" is a nickname for Lawrence, Massachusetts, reflecting its historic role as a major industrial mill city with a large working-class population.
- 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: The Builders Target entity description: "The Builders" is a classic episode of the British sitcom Fawlty Towers in which a disastrously cheap construction job wreaks havoc on Basil Fawlty's hotel.
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A.
The Builders
The Builders is a modernist painting by French artist Fernand Léger that depicts construction workers amid geometric forms, celebrating industrialization and urban life.
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B.
Man the Builder
Man the Builder was a themed exhibition area at Montreal’s Man and His World fair that focused on human ingenuity in architecture, engineering, and construction.
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C.
The Stonemason
The Stonemason is a stage play by American author Cormac McCarthy that explores family conflict, legacy, and moral decay within a multigenerational African American family.
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D.
El hacedor
El hacedor is a 1960 collection of short prose pieces and poems by Jorge Luis Borges that explores themes of time, identity, and the nature of authorship in his characteristically metafictional style.
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E.
City of Workers
"City of Workers" is a nickname for Lawrence, Massachusetts, reflecting its historic role as a major industrial mill city with a large working-class population.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Fawlty Towers episode
ⓘ
television episode ⓘ |
| basedOnCharacterCreatedBy |
Connie Booth
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Cleese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayedBy |
Basil Fawlty
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Manuel ⓘ O'Reilly ⓘ Polly Sherman ⓘ Sybil Fawlty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | John Howard Davies ⓘ |
| episodeNumberInSeason | 2 ⓘ |
| featuresActor |
Andrew Sachs
ⓘ
Ballard Berkeley ⓘ Connie Booth NERFINISHED ⓘ David Kelly ⓘ Gilly Flower ⓘ John Cleese NERFINISHED ⓘ Prunella Scales ⓘ Renée Roberts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Basil Fawlty
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Major Gowen ⓘ Manuel ⓘ Miss Gatsby ⓘ Miss Tibbs ⓘ Mr Stubbs ⓘ Mrs Stubbs ⓘ O'Reilly ⓘ Polly Sherman ⓘ Sybil Fawlty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
sitcom
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television comedy ⓘ |
| mainPlot |
Basil Fawlty hires cheap builder O'Reilly instead of reputable builder Stubbs to carry out construction work at the hotel
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Shoddy building work causes chaos and damage at Fawlty Towers ⓘ Sybil discovers Basil has disobeyed her instructions about which builder to use ⓘ |
| network | BBC Two ⓘ |
| notableElement |
depicts Basil Fawlty attempting to cut costs by hiring an incompetent builder
ⓘ
known for slapstick physical comedy involving collapsing walls and misplaced doors ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Fawlty Towers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Andrew Sachs
ⓘ
Connie Booth NERFINISHED ⓘ David Kelly ⓘ John Cleese NERFINISHED ⓘ Prunella Scales ⓘ |
| producer | John Howard Davies ⓘ |
| productionCompany | BBC ⓘ |
| seriesNumber | 1 ⓘ |
| setting |
Fawlty Towers
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surface form:
Fawlty Towers hotel in Torquay
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| title | The Builders self-link ⓘ |
| writer |
Connie Booth
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Cleese NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Builders Description of subject: "The Builders" is a classic episode of the British sitcom Fawlty Towers in which a disastrously cheap construction job wreaks havoc on Basil Fawlty's hotel.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.