Pardon the Expression
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Pardon the Expression is a British television sitcom spun off from the soap opera Coronation Street, following the character Leonard Swindley in new comedic situations.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pardon the Expression canonical | 1 |
| Pardon the Expression! | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5493885 — 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: Pardon the Expression Context triple: [Coronation Street, hasSpinOff, Pardon the Expression]
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A.
A Plea for Excuses
A Plea for Excuses is a seminal philosophical essay by J. L. Austin that analyzes ordinary language and the ways people use excuses to navigate responsibility and blame.
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B.
Sorry You Asked
"Sorry You Asked" is a song featured on the album "Gone."
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C.
So Sorry, I Said
"So Sorry, I Said" is a song featured on the album "Results" by Liza Minnelli, produced by the Pet Shop Boys and known for its synth-pop style.
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D.
Something to Say
"Something to Say" is a song featured on the album "Signed, Sealed & Delivered."
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E.
As We Were Saying
As We Were Saying is a collection of essays by American writer and humorist Charles Dudley Warner, reflecting his characteristic wit and social commentary.
- 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: Pardon the Expression Target entity description: Pardon the Expression is a British television sitcom spun off from the soap opera Coronation Street, following the character Leonard Swindley in new comedic situations.
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A.
A Plea for Excuses
A Plea for Excuses is a seminal philosophical essay by J. L. Austin that analyzes ordinary language and the ways people use excuses to navigate responsibility and blame.
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B.
Sorry You Asked
"Sorry You Asked" is a song featured on the album "Gone."
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C.
So Sorry, I Said
"So Sorry, I Said" is a song featured on the album "Results" by Liza Minnelli, produced by the Pet Shop Boys and known for its synth-pop style.
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D.
Something to Say
"Something to Say" is a song featured on the album "Signed, Sealed & Delivered."
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E.
As We Were Saying
As We Were Saying is a collection of essays by American writer and humorist Charles Dudley Warner, reflecting his characteristic wit and social commentary.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | British television sitcom ⓘ |
| basedOn | Coronation Street ⓘ |
| broadcastFormat | black-and-white ⓘ |
| broadcastOn | ITV ⓘ |
| character | Leonard Swindley ⓘ |
| characterOccupation | department store deputy manager ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| ended | 1966 ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterFrom | Coronation Street ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1965 ⓘ |
| followsCharacter | Leonard Swindley ⓘ |
| format | half-hour episodes ⓘ |
| genre | sitcom ⓘ |
| hasSpinOff | Turn Out the Lights ⓘ |
| leadCharacterOriginatedIn | Coronation Street ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Leonard Swindley ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 36 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeries | 2 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originallyBroadcastAs |
Pardon the Expression!
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linked to:
Pardon the Expression
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| originalNetwork | ITV ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Granada Television ⓘ |
| setting | department store ⓘ |
| spinOffFrom | Coronation Street ⓘ |
| starred | Arthur Lowe ⓘ |
| starringActor | Arthur Lowe ⓘ |
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: Pardon the Expression Description of subject: Pardon the Expression is a British television sitcom spun off from the soap opera Coronation Street, following the character Leonard Swindley in new comedic situations.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Pardon the Expression