Head of the Class
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Head of the Class is an American sitcom about a group of gifted high school students and their unconventional teacher, originally starring Howard Hesseman and later Billy Connolly.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Head of the Class canonical | 10 |
| Head of the Class (2021 TV series) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6959362 — 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: Head of the Class Context triple: [Billy Connolly, notableWork, Head of the Class]
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A.
The Harrovian
The Harrovian is the long-running school newspaper and magazine produced by and for the community of Harrow School in England.
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B.
The Paper Chase
The Paper Chase is a 1973 American drama film (and later a TV series) about the intense first-year experience at Harvard Law School, best known for John Houseman’s Oscar-winning portrayal of the demanding Professor Kingsfield.
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C.
The Honourable Schoolboy
The Honourable Schoolboy is a Cold War espionage novel by John le Carré that follows British intelligence officer Jerry Westerby on a complex mission in Southeast Asia as part of George Smiley’s campaign against the Soviet spy network.
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D.
The King’s New School
The King’s New School is a historic grammar school in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, best known as the likely school attended by William Shakespeare.
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E.
The Student's Tale
"The Student's Tale" is one of the narrative poems within Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's collection *Tales of a Wayside Inn*, presented as a story told by the character known as the Student.
- 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: Head of the Class Target entity description: Head of the Class is an American sitcom about a group of gifted high school students and their unconventional teacher, originally starring Howard Hesseman and later Billy Connolly.
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A.
The Harrovian
The Harrovian is the long-running school newspaper and magazine produced by and for the community of Harrow School in England.
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B.
The Paper Chase
The Paper Chase is a 1973 American drama film (and later a TV series) about the intense first-year experience at Harvard Law School, best known for John Houseman’s Oscar-winning portrayal of the demanding Professor Kingsfield.
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C.
The Honourable Schoolboy
The Honourable Schoolboy is a Cold War espionage novel by John le Carré that follows British intelligence officer Jerry Westerby on a complex mission in Southeast Asia as part of George Smiley’s campaign against the Soviet spy network.
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D.
The King’s New School
The King’s New School is a historic grammar school in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, best known as the likely school attended by William Shakespeare.
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E.
The Student's Tale
"The Student's Tale" is one of the narrative poems within Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's collection *Tales of a Wayside Inn*, presented as a story told by the character known as the Student.
- 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: Head of the Class Description of subject: Head of the Class is an American sitcom about a group of gifted high school students and their unconventional teacher, originally starring Howard Hesseman and later Billy Connolly.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.