Question Time
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Question Time is a long-running BBC television political debate program where a panel of public figures answers questions from a studio audience.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Question Time canonical | 12 |
| Any Questions? | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5180520 — 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: Question Time Context triple: [Robin Day, notableWork, Question Time]
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A.
Q & A
Q & A is a novel by Vikas Swarup that follows a poor Indian waiter who unexpectedly wins a fortune on a quiz show, inspiring the film Slumdog Millionaire.
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B.
Ask
Ask is a small village located in the municipality of Ringerike in Buskerud county, Norway.
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C.
The Questions
The Questions is a section of the novel "Like Water for Chocolate" that presents reflective or discussion prompts related to the story’s themes and events.
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D.
Q’s
Q’s is the nickname commonly used for the former American Basketball Association team the San Diego Conquistadors.
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E.
Some Answered Questions
Some Answered Questions is a central Bahá'í text consisting of recorded talks by ʻAbdu'l‑Bahá that explain key spiritual, philosophical, and scriptural themes of the Bahá'í Faith.
- 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: Question Time Target entity description: Question Time is a long-running BBC television political debate program where a panel of public figures answers questions from a studio audience.
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A.
Q & A
Q & A is a novel by Vikas Swarup that follows a poor Indian waiter who unexpectedly wins a fortune on a quiz show, inspiring the film Slumdog Millionaire.
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B.
Ask
Ask is a small village located in the municipality of Ringerike in Buskerud county, Norway.
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C.
The Questions
The Questions is a section of the novel "Like Water for Chocolate" that presents reflective or discussion prompts related to the story’s themes and events.
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D.
Q’s
Q’s is the nickname commonly used for the former American Basketball Association team the San Diego Conquistadors.
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E.
Some Answered Questions
Some Answered Questions is a central Bahá'í text consisting of recorded talks by ʻAbdu'l‑Bahá that explain key spiritual, philosophical, and scriptural themes of the Bahá'í Faith.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
political debate programme
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television programme ⓘ |
| broadcastFrequency | weekly ⓘ |
| broadcastOn | television ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdFor | BBC One ⓘ |
| editorialFocus | impartial political discussion ⓘ |
| features |
commentators
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journalists ⓘ panel of public figures ⓘ politicians ⓘ public debate ⓘ |
| firstBroadcastDate | 1979-09-25 ⓘ |
| format |
panel discussion
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studio audience questions ⓘ |
| genre |
current affairs television programme
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political debate ⓘ |
| hasAudience | studio audience ⓘ |
| hasHashtag | #bbcqt ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | https://www.bbc.co.uk/questiontime ⓘ |
| hasOpeningTheme | Question Time theme music ⓘ |
| hasSpinOff | Question Time Extra Time ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
audience participation
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high-profile political guests ⓘ live political debate ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
BBC News and Current Affairs output
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linked to:
BBC News and Current Affairs
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| laterPresentedBy |
David Dimbleby
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Fiona Bruce ⓘ Peter Sissons ⓘ |
| location | various locations in the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| network |
BBC One
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BBC Two ⓘ |
| notableFor | longest-running political debate show on UK television ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originallyPresentedBy | Robin Day ⓘ |
| producer | BBC ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
BBC News and Current Affairs
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BBC Studios ⓘ |
| recordedAsLive | true ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
British politics
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current affairs ⓘ public policy ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general public ⓘ |
| typicalPanelSize | 5 ⓘ |
| typicalRuntime | approximately 60 minutes ⓘ |
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: Question Time Description of subject: Question Time is a long-running BBC television political debate program where a panel of public figures answers questions from a studio audience.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Question Time