Porridge
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Porridge is a classic British sitcom set in a prison, starring Ronnie Barker as a wisecracking inmate serving time in a fictional UK jail.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Porridge canonical | 17 |
| Porridge (TV series) | 2 |
| Porridge (1979 film) | 1 |
| Porridge (2016 TV series) | 1 |
| Porridge (film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7806731 — 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: Porridge Context triple: [Peter Vaughan, notableWork, Porridge]
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A.
The Breakfast
The Breakfast is a Rococo painting by French artist François Boucher that depicts an intimate domestic scene of an aristocratic family gathered around a morning meal.
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B.
The Roly-Poly Pudding
The Roly-Poly Pudding is a children's story by Beatrix Potter featuring Tom Kitten's misadventures with rats who try to cook him into a pudding.
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C.
Haggis
Haggis is a traditional Scottish savory pudding made from sheep offal, oatmeal, and spices, typically encased in a sheep’s stomach.
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D.
Grits
Grits is a comic character in the 1858 American play "Our American Cousin," known for contributing to the play’s broad humor and farcical situations.
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E.
Grits
Grits is a hip hop track by the British electronic duo Organix, known for blending rap elements with their signature experimental production style.
- 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: Porridge Target entity description: Porridge is a classic British sitcom set in a prison, starring Ronnie Barker as a wisecracking inmate serving time in a fictional UK jail.
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A.
The Breakfast
The Breakfast is a Rococo painting by French artist François Boucher that depicts an intimate domestic scene of an aristocratic family gathered around a morning meal.
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B.
The Roly-Poly Pudding
The Roly-Poly Pudding is a children's story by Beatrix Potter featuring Tom Kitten's misadventures with rats who try to cook him into a pudding.
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C.
Haggis
Haggis is a traditional Scottish savory pudding made from sheep offal, oatmeal, and spices, typically encased in a sheep’s stomach.
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D.
Grits
Grits is a hip hop track by the British electronic duo Organix, known for blending rap elements with their signature experimental production style.
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E.
Grits
Grits is a comic character in the 1858 American play "Our American Cousin," known for contributing to the play’s broad humor and farcical situations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
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: Porridge Description of subject: Porridge is a classic British sitcom set in a prison, starring Ronnie Barker as a wisecracking inmate serving time in a fictional UK jail.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Porridge
subject linked to:
Godber
linked to: Porridge
linked to: Porridge
linked to: Porridge
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Harry Grout in Porridge
subject linked to:
Harry Grout in Porridge
linked to: Porridge