Extras
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Extras is a British television sitcom created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant that follows struggling background actors navigating the absurdities of the entertainment industry, often featuring high-profile guest stars playing exaggerated versions of themselves.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Extras canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7560505 — 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: Extras Context triple: [The Larry Sanders Show, influenced, Extras]
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A.
Extra
Extra is a popular sugar-free chewing gum brand produced by the Wrigley Company, known for its long-lasting flavor and wide variety of mint and fruit options.
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B.
Extra
Extra is an American entertainment news television program that covers celebrity news, gossip, and pop culture.
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C.
More Stuff
"More Stuff" is a comedy track from George Carlin’s 1986 stand-up album *Playin’ with Your Head*, showcasing his observational humor about materialism and consumer culture.
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D.
Expansions
Expansions is a series of monumental polyurethane foam sculptures by French artist César Baldaccini that dramatically capture the moment of material expansion and solidification.
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E.
exo
exo is the public transit authority serving the greater Montreal metropolitan area, operating commuter trains and buses across multiple suburban regions in Quebec, Canada.
- 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: Extras Target entity description: Extras is a British television sitcom created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant that follows struggling background actors navigating the absurdities of the entertainment industry, often featuring high-profile guest stars playing exaggerated versions of themselves.
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A.
Extra
Extra is a popular sugar-free chewing gum brand produced by the Wrigley Company, known for its long-lasting flavor and wide variety of mint and fruit options.
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B.
Extra
Extra is an American entertainment news television program that covers celebrity news, gossip, and pop culture.
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C.
More Stuff
"More Stuff" is a comedy track from George Carlin’s 1986 stand-up album *Playin’ with Your Head*, showcasing his observational humor about materialism and consumer culture.
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D.
Expansions
Expansions is a series of monumental polyurethane foam sculptures by French artist César Baldaccini that dramatically capture the moment of material expansion and solidification.
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E.
exo
exo is the public transit authority serving the greater Montreal metropolitan area, operating commuter trains and buses across multiple suburban regions in Quebec, Canada.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | British television sitcom ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy
NERFINISHED
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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator |
Ricky Gervais
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Stephen Merchant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | BBC Worldwide NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| finalAired | 2007 ⓘ |
| firstAired | 2005 ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
sitcom ⓘ |
| guestStar |
Ben Stiller
NERFINISHED
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Chris Martin NERFINISHED ⓘ Daniel Radcliffe NERFINISHED ⓘ David Bowie NERFINISHED ⓘ Ian McKellen NERFINISHED ⓘ Kate Winslet NERFINISHED ⓘ Les Dennis NERFINISHED ⓘ Orlando Bloom NERFINISHED ⓘ Patrick Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert De Niro NERFINISHED ⓘ Ross Kemp NERFINISHED ⓘ Samuel L. Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ Shaun Williamson NERFINISHED ⓘ Vinnie Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Extras Christmas Special
NERFINISHED
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Extras series 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ Extras series 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Andy Millman
NERFINISHED
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Darren Lamb NERFINISHED ⓘ Maggie Jacobs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFeature | features high-profile guest stars playing fictionalized versions of themselves ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 13 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 2 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork |
BBC Two
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
HBO ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Ashley Jensen
NERFINISHED
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Ricky Gervais NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephen Merchant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
BBC
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HBO NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
British film industry
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
British television industry ⓘ |
| starring |
Ashley Jensen
NERFINISHED
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Ricky Gervais NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephen Merchant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
satire of the entertainment industry
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struggles of background actors ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Extras Description of subject: Extras is a British television sitcom created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant that follows struggling background actors navigating the absurdities of the entertainment industry, often featuring high-profile guest stars playing exaggerated versions of themselves.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.