The New Normal
E596002
The New Normal is an American television sitcom that follows a gay couple and their surrogate as they navigate modern family life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The New Normal canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6486878 — 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 New Normal Context triple: [Ellen Barkin, notableWork, The New Normal]
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A.
The Inevitable
The Inevitable is an English rendering of the name of Surah Al-Waqi'ah, a chapter of the Qur’an that vividly describes the certainty of the Day of Resurrection and the final sorting of humanity into different groups.
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B.
The Next Big Thing
The Next Big Thing is a nickname for Brock Lesnar, highlighting his rapid rise as a dominant and highly touted professional wrestler and mixed martial artist.
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C.
Reconsider Everything
"Reconsider Everything" is a song by the progressive rock band Evolver.
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D.
The New Story
The New Story is Thomas Berry’s influential essay proposing a transformative cosmological narrative that integrates scientific understanding with spiritual and ecological awareness to guide humanity’s relationship with the Earth.
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E.
Nosedive
Nosedive is a Black Mirror episode that satirically explores a near-future society obsessed with social media ratings and the consequences of living for online approval.
- 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 New Normal Target entity description: The New Normal is an American television sitcom that follows a gay couple and their surrogate as they navigate modern family life.
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A.
The Inevitable
The Inevitable is an English rendering of the name of Surah Al-Waqi'ah, a chapter of the Qur’an that vividly describes the certainty of the Day of Resurrection and the final sorting of humanity into different groups.
-
B.
The Next Big Thing
The Next Big Thing is a nickname for Brock Lesnar, highlighting his rapid rise as a dominant and highly touted professional wrestler and mixed martial artist.
-
C.
Reconsider Everything
"Reconsider Everything" is a song by the progressive rock band Evolver.
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D.
The New Story
The New Story is Thomas Berry’s influential essay proposing a transformative cosmological narrative that integrates scientific understanding with spiritual and ecological awareness to guide humanity’s relationship with the Earth.
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E.
Nosedive
Nosedive is a Black Mirror episode that satirically explores a near-future society obsessed with social media ratings and the consequences of living for online approval.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: The New Normal Description of subject: The New Normal is an American television sitcom that follows a gay couple and their surrogate as they navigate modern family life.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.