Parkinson’s Lore
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Parkinson’s Lore is a work by British broadcaster Michael Parkinson that reflects on his life, career, and the many notable figures he interviewed.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Parkinson’s Lore canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8121921 — 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: Parkinson’s Lore Context triple: [Michael Parkinson, notableWork, Parkinson’s Lore]
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A.
Awakenings
Awakenings is a 1990 drama film, based on Oliver Sacks' memoir and starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, about catatonic patients temporarily revived by a new drug.
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B.
The Paralytic
The Paralytic is an 18th-century genre painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze, depicting an emotionally charged domestic scene centered on an ailing, paralyzed figure.
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C.
Brain on Fire
Brain on Fire is a 2016 biographical drama film based on Susannah Cahalan’s memoir about her sudden descent into and recovery from a rare autoimmune brain disease.
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D.
The Psychiatrist
"The Psychiatrist" is a celebrated episode of the British sitcom *Fawlty Towers*, known for its farcical misunderstandings involving a visiting psychiatrist and Basil Fawlty’s escalating paranoia and attempts at deception.
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E.
The Roving Mind
The Roving Mind is a collection of essays by Isaac Asimov that explores science, technology, humanism, and social issues with his characteristic clarity and wit.
- 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: Parkinson’s Lore Target entity description: Parkinson’s Lore is a work by British broadcaster Michael Parkinson that reflects on his life, career, and the many notable figures he interviewed.
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A.
Awakenings
Awakenings is a 1990 drama film, based on Oliver Sacks' memoir and starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, about catatonic patients temporarily revived by a new drug.
-
B.
The Paralytic
The Paralytic is an 18th-century genre painting by French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze, depicting an emotionally charged domestic scene centered on an ailing, paralyzed figure.
-
C.
Brain on Fire
Brain on Fire is a 2016 biographical drama film based on Susannah Cahalan’s memoir about her sudden descent into and recovery from a rare autoimmune brain disease.
-
D.
The Psychiatrist
"The Psychiatrist" is a celebrated episode of the British sitcom *Fawlty Towers*, known for its farcical misunderstandings involving a visiting psychiatrist and Basil Fawlty’s escalating paranoia and attempts at deception.
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E.
The Roving Mind
The Roving Mind is a collection of essays by Isaac Asimov that explores science, technology, humanism, and social issues with his characteristic clarity and wit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | book ⓘ |
| about |
British broadcasting
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celebrity interviews ⓘ television talk shows ⓘ |
| author | Michael Parkinson ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Michael Parkinson ⓘ |
| describes |
behind-the-scenes aspects of interviews
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encounters with notable public figures ⓘ personal reflections of Michael Parkinson ⓘ |
| genre |
autobiography
ⓘ
memoir ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | British ⓘ |
| hasSubjectOccupation |
broadcaster
ⓘ
television presenter ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Parkinson’s Lore ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
career of Michael Parkinson
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life of Michael Parkinson ⓘ notable interviewees of Michael Parkinson ⓘ television interviewing ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| workOf | Michael Parkinson ⓘ |
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: Parkinson’s Lore Description of subject: Parkinson’s Lore is a work by British broadcaster Michael Parkinson that reflects on his life, career, and the many notable figures he interviewed.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.