Communication Problems
E417870
"Communication Problems" is a celebrated episode of the British sitcom *Fawlty Towers*, known for its farcical misunderstandings involving a hard-of-hearing guest and Basil Fawlty’s increasingly desperate attempts to hide his misdeeds.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Communication Problems canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4170192 — 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: Communication Problems Context triple: [Fawlty Towers, hasEpisode, Communication Problems]
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A.
Communication
"Communication" is a popular trance track by Dutch DJ and producer Armin van Buuren, widely regarded as one of his early breakthrough releases.
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B.
DG Communication
DG Communication is the European Commission’s department responsible for informing the public about EU policies and activities and managing the institution’s communication strategy.
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C.
msgcomm
msgcomm is a GNU gettext utility that compares and extracts common messages from translation files to help manage and synchronize message catalogs.
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D.
Views on individual communications
Views on individual communications are authoritative decisions issued by the UN Human Rights Committee on complaints brought by individuals alleging violations of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
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E.
Messages
Messages is Apple’s built-in messaging app for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS that supports SMS, MMS, and iMessage communication across Apple devices.
- 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: Communication Problems Target entity description: "Communication Problems" is a celebrated episode of the British sitcom *Fawlty Towers*, known for its farcical misunderstandings involving a hard-of-hearing guest and Basil Fawlty’s increasingly desperate attempts to hide his misdeeds.
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A.
Communication
"Communication" is a popular trance track by Dutch DJ and producer Armin van Buuren, widely regarded as one of his early breakthrough releases.
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B.
DG Communication
DG Communication is the European Commission’s department responsible for informing the public about EU policies and activities and managing the institution’s communication strategy.
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C.
msgcomm
msgcomm is a GNU gettext utility that compares and extracts common messages from translation files to help manage and synchronize message catalogs.
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D.
Views on individual communications
Views on individual communications are authoritative decisions issued by the UN Human Rights Committee on complaints brought by individuals alleging violations of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
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E.
Messages
Messages is Apple’s built-in messaging app for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS that supports SMS, MMS, and iMessage communication across Apple devices.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Fawlty Towers episode
ⓘ
television episode ⓘ |
| basedOn | original material for Fawlty Towers ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Bob Spiers ⓘ |
| episodeNumberInSeason | 1 ⓘ |
| episodeNumberOverall | 7 ⓘ |
| executiveProducer | John Howard Davies ⓘ |
| featuresActor |
Andrew Sachs
NERFINISHED
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Connie Booth NERFINISHED ⓘ Joan Sanderson NERFINISHED ⓘ John Cleese NERFINISHED ⓘ Prunella Scales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Basil Fawlty
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Manuel ⓘ Mrs Richards ⓘ Polly Sherman NERFINISHED ⓘ Sybil Fawlty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingTechnique | multi-camera ⓘ |
| firstBroadcastDecade | 1970s ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Psychiatrist ⓘ |
| genre |
sitcom
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television comedy ⓘ |
| hasBroadcastFormat | colour ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
class satire
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miscommunication ⓘ social awkwardness ⓘ |
| locationType | studio recording with some location footage ⓘ |
| network |
BBC Two
ⓘ
surface form:
BBC2
|
| notableFor |
portrayal of a demanding hard-of-hearing guest
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use of verbal misunderstandings and wordplay ⓘ |
| originalAirDate | 1979-02-19 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originallyAiredOn |
BBC Two
ⓘ
surface form:
BBC2
|
| originalRuntime | approximately 30 minutes ⓘ |
| partOf | Fawlty Towers series 2 ONNED1 ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Fawlty Towers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotFocus |
Basil Fawlty’s attempts to conceal gambling winnings
ⓘ
farcical misunderstandings with a hard-of-hearing guest ⓘ |
| precededBy | The Germans ⓘ |
| producer | Douglas Argent ⓘ |
| productionCompany | BBC ⓘ |
| seasonNumber | 2 ⓘ |
| seriesNumber | 2 ⓘ |
| setInCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| setInLocation | Torquay ⓘ |
| setting | Fawlty Towers hotel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer |
Connie Booth
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Cleese 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: Communication Problems Description of subject: "Communication Problems" is a celebrated episode of the British sitcom *Fawlty Towers*, known for its farcical misunderstandings involving a hard-of-hearing guest and Basil Fawlty’s increasingly desperate attempts to hide his misdeeds.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.