The Upper Hand
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The Upper Hand is a British television sitcom that aired in the 1990s, best known for starring Honor Blackman as the sophisticated, sharp-tongued Caroline Wheatley.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Upper Hand canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8512336 — 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 Upper Hand Context triple: [Honor Blackman, notableWork, The Upper Hand]
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A.
Cross Hands
Cross Hands is a village in Carmarthenshire, Wales, known historically as a mining community and now as a growing residential and commercial area near the A48.
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B.
Backhander
Backhander is the codename for a specific military operation, likely involving covert or strategic actions under the designation "Operation Backhander."
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C.
Two Hands
Two Hands is a popular Australian solitaire card game created by game designer Ken Sallows.
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D.
The Whip Hand
The Whip Hand is a 1951 American Cold War thriller film about a journalist uncovering a sinister communist plot in a small town.
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E.
The Back of Your Hand
"The Back of Your Hand" is a song by Dwight Yoakam from his 2003 album "Population Me," known for its classic country sound and themes of heartbreak and regret.
- 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 Upper Hand Target entity description: The Upper Hand is a British television sitcom that aired in the 1990s, best known for starring Honor Blackman as the sophisticated, sharp-tongued Caroline Wheatley.
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A.
Cross Hands
Cross Hands is a village in Carmarthenshire, Wales, known historically as a mining community and now as a growing residential and commercial area near the A48.
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B.
Backhander
Backhander is the codename for a specific military operation, likely involving covert or strategic actions under the designation "Operation Backhander."
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C.
Two Hands
Two Hands is a popular Australian solitaire card game created by game designer Ken Sallows.
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D.
The Whip Hand
The Whip Hand is a 1951 American Cold War thriller film about a journalist uncovering a sinister communist plot in a small town.
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E.
The Back of Your Hand
"The Back of Your Hand" is a song by Dwight Yoakam from his 2003 album "Population Me," known for its classic country sound and themes of heartbreak and regret.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | British television sitcom ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | Who’s the Boss? NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | American sitcom Who’s the Boss? NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| broadcastIn | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Caroline Wheatley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Charlie Burrows NERFINISHED ⓘ Jo Wheatley NERFINISHED ⓘ Laura NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Wheatley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPlayedBy |
Caroline Wheatley – Honor Blackman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Charlie Burrows – Joe McGann NERFINISHED ⓘ Jo Wheatley – Diana Weston NERFINISHED ⓘ Kate – Kellie Bright NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Wheatley – William Puttock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| decadeOfOriginalRun | 1990s ⓘ |
| featuresTheme |
class differences
ⓘ
gender role reversal in domestic setting ⓘ romantic tension between employer and housekeeper ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1990 ⓘ |
| format | television series ⓘ |
| genre | sitcom ⓘ |
| hasEpisodeCount | multiple episodes ⓘ |
| hasSeasonCount | multiple series ⓘ |
| leadCharacter |
Caroline Wheatley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Charlie Burrows NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| network | ITV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCastMember |
Diana Weston
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Honor Blackman NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe McGann NERFINISHED ⓘ Kellie Bright NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | starring Honor Blackman as Caroline Wheatley ⓘ |
| originalChannel | ITV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A former footballer becomes housekeeper for a career-driven single mother and her family ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Central Independent Television NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | affluent household in England ⓘ |
| starred |
Diana Weston
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Honor Blackman NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe McGann NERFINISHED ⓘ Kellie Bright NERFINISHED ⓘ William Puttock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | family audience ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | late 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 Upper Hand Description of subject: The Upper Hand is a British television sitcom that aired in the 1990s, best known for starring Honor Blackman as the sophisticated, sharp-tongued Caroline Wheatley.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.