Supergran
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Supergran is a 1980s British children's television series about a seemingly ordinary Scottish grandmother who gains superpowers and fights crime in her local community.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Supergran canonical | 3 |
| Supergran (book series) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9347495 — 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: Supergran Context triple: [Joan Sims, notableWork, Supergran]
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A.
The Super
The Super is a 2017 American thriller film about a former cop who becomes the superintendent of a New York City apartment building where tenants begin mysteriously disappearing.
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B.
Gigante
Gigante is a municipality and town located in the Huila Department of southwestern Colombia, known for its agricultural activities and Andean landscapes.
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C.
Super W
Super W is Australia's premier professional women's rugby union competition, featuring top regional teams in a national tournament.
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D.
Giant
"Giant" is a 1956 American epic Western drama film, co-starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean, that explores themes of family, wealth, and social change in Texas over several decades.
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E.
Gigantic
Gigantic is a 2008 indie romantic comedy film starring Paul Dano as a mattress salesman who pursues international adoption while navigating an unconventional relationship.
- 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: Supergran Target entity description: Supergran is a 1980s British children's television series about a seemingly ordinary Scottish grandmother who gains superpowers and fights crime in her local community.
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A.
The Super
The Super is a 2017 American thriller film about a former cop who becomes the superintendent of a New York City apartment building where tenants begin mysteriously disappearing.
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B.
Gigante
Gigante is a municipality and town located in the Huila Department of southwestern Colombia, known for its agricultural activities and Andean landscapes.
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C.
Super W
Super W is Australia's premier professional women's rugby union competition, featuring top regional teams in a national tournament.
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D.
Giant
"Giant" is a 1956 American epic Western drama film, co-starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean, that explores themes of family, wealth, and social change in Texas over several decades.
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E.
Gigantic
"Gigantic" is an alternative rock song by the Pixies, notable for its prominent bassline and Kim Deal's lead vocals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British children's television series
ⓘ
television programme ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Supergran (book series)
ⓘ
linked to:
Supergran
|
| broadcastFormat | live-action ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Forrest Wilson ⓘ |
| debutDecade | 1980s ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterType | grandmother superhero ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Tyneside, England
ⓘ
linked to:
Tyneside
|
| firstAired | 1985 ⓘ |
| genre |
children's television series
ⓘ
comedy ⓘ superhero television series ⓘ |
| hasSupernaturalElement | superpowers granted to elderly protagonist ⓘ |
| hasThemeSongPerformer | Billy Connolly ⓘ |
| intendedFor | television broadcast ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Supergran ⓘ |
| notableElement | mix of live action and comic‑book style sequences ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 27 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeries | 2 ⓘ |
| originalChannelFranchise |
ITV Children's
ⓘ
linked to:
CITV
|
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | ITV ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A Scottish grandmother gains superpowers and fights crime in her local community ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Tyne Tees Television ⓘ |
| protagonistDescription | seemingly ordinary Scottish grandmother who gains superpowers ⓘ |
| settingLocation | fictional Scottish town of Chiselton ⓘ |
| targetAudience | children ⓘ |
| themeSongTitle | Supergran ⓘ |
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: Supergran Description of subject: Supergran is a 1980s British children's television series about a seemingly ordinary Scottish grandmother who gains superpowers and fights crime in her local community.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.