The Clitheroe Kid (radio appearances)
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The Clitheroe Kid (radio appearances) refers to Thora Hird’s performances in the long-running British radio comedy series “The Clitheroe Kid,” where she was a regular supporting cast member.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Clitheroe Kid (radio appearances) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8512123 — 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 Clitheroe Kid (radio appearances) Context triple: [Thora Hird, notableWork, The Clitheroe Kid (radio appearances)]
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A.
The Kenny Everett Show (radio)
The Kenny Everett Show (radio) was a popular and influential British radio comedy and music program known for its inventive sketches, eccentric characters, and pioneering use of audio production techniques.
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B.
BBC Radio Theatre
BBC Radio Theatre is a historic performance and recording venue within the BBC’s London headquarters, renowned for hosting live radio broadcasts, music sessions, and audience shows.
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C.
The Hobbit (1968 radio drama)
The Hobbit (1968 radio drama) is a BBC radio adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy novel, dramatizing Bilbo Baggins’s adventure with narration, dialogue, and sound effects for broadcast.
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D.
The Goon Show
The Goon Show was a groundbreaking mid-20th-century British radio comedy series known for its surreal humor, innovative sound effects, and major influence on later comedians and sketch shows.
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E.
BBC Radio 7
BBC Radio 7 was a British digital radio station specializing in comedy, drama, and entertainment programming from the BBC archives.
- 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 Clitheroe Kid (radio appearances) Target entity description: The Clitheroe Kid (radio appearances) refers to Thora Hird’s performances in the long-running British radio comedy series “The Clitheroe Kid,” where she was a regular supporting cast member.
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A.
The Kenny Everett Show (radio)
The Kenny Everett Show (radio) was a popular and influential British radio comedy and music program known for its inventive sketches, eccentric characters, and pioneering use of audio production techniques.
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B.
BBC Radio Theatre
BBC Radio Theatre is a historic performance and recording venue within the BBC’s London headquarters, renowned for hosting live radio broadcasts, music sessions, and audience shows.
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C.
The Hobbit (1968 radio drama)
The Hobbit (1968 radio drama) is a BBC radio adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy novel, dramatizing Bilbo Baggins’s adventure with narration, dialogue, and sound effects for broadcast.
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D.
The Goon Show
The Goon Show was a groundbreaking mid-20th-century British radio comedy series known for its surreal humor, innovative sound effects, and major influence on later comedians and sketch shows.
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E.
BBC Radio 7
BBC Radio 7 was a British digital radio station specializing in comedy, drama, and entertainment programming from the BBC archives.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
acting credit
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performance in radio comedy series ⓘ radio role ⓘ |
| associatedWith | British radio comedy ⓘ |
| basedOnSeriesCreatedBy | James Casey ⓘ |
| broadcastOn | BBC Radio ⓘ |
| castMember | Thora Hird ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Jimmy Clitheroe ⓘ |
| format | scripted situation comedy ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | radio ⓘ |
| notableFor | Thora Hird’s comic performances in radio ⓘ |
| partOf | The Clitheroe Kid ⓘ |
| performedBy | Thora Hird ⓘ |
| performedIn | studio recordings for radio broadcast ⓘ |
| productionCompany | BBC ⓘ |
| regularOrRecurring | regular supporting role ⓘ |
| timePeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
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 Clitheroe Kid (radio appearances) Description of subject: The Clitheroe Kid (radio appearances) refers to Thora Hird’s performances in the long-running British radio comedy series “The Clitheroe Kid,” where she was a regular supporting cast member.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.