TripTank
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TripTank is an animated sketch comedy television series featuring a variety of short, often dark and absurd cartoons created by different animators and writers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| TripTank canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9966919 — 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: TripTank Context triple: [ShadowMachine, knownForWorkOn, TripTank]
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A.
Places API
Places API is a Google Maps web service that provides detailed information about geographic locations, including place search, details, photos, and autocomplete functionality for applications.
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B.
Transport Focus
Transport Focus is an independent watchdog organization in Great Britain that represents the interests of transport users, particularly rail, bus, and road passengers, by monitoring services and advocating for improvements.
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C.
Waze
Waze is a community-driven GPS navigation app that provides real-time traffic updates, route guidance, and incident reports from its users.
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D.
MapQuest
MapQuest is an early online mapping and driving directions service that became one of the first widely used web-based navigation tools.
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E.
Nearby APIs
Nearby APIs are a set of Google Play Services tools that enable Android apps to discover, communicate with, and share data with nearby devices using technologies like Bluetooth, Wi‑Fi, and ultrasonic audio.
- 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: TripTank Target entity description: TripTank is an animated sketch comedy television series featuring a variety of short, often dark and absurd cartoons created by different animators and writers.
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A.
Places API
Places API is a Google Maps web service that provides detailed information about geographic locations, including place search, details, photos, and autocomplete functionality for applications.
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B.
Transport Focus
Transport Focus is an independent watchdog organization in Great Britain that represents the interests of transport users, particularly rail, bus, and road passengers, by monitoring services and advocating for improvements.
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C.
Waze
Waze is a community-driven GPS navigation app that provides real-time traffic updates, route guidance, and incident reports from its users.
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D.
MapQuest
MapQuest is an early online mapping and driving directions service that became one of the first widely used web-based navigation tools.
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E.
Nearby APIs
Nearby APIs are a set of Google Play Services tools that enable Android apps to discover, communicate with, and share data with nearby devices using technologies like Bluetooth, Wi‑Fi, and ultrasonic audio.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American adult animated television series
ⓘ
animated sketch comedy television series ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| createdFor | Comedy Central ⓘ |
| executiveProducer |
Alex Bulkley
ⓘ
Corey Campodonico ⓘ |
| firstAired | 2014-04-02 ⓘ |
| firstAiredOnChannel | Comedy Central ⓘ |
| format | Anthology series ⓘ |
| genre |
Adult animation
ⓘ
Black comedy ⓘ Sketch comedy ⓘ Surreal comedy ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
features absurd humor
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features dark humor ⓘ features short animated segments ⓘ segments created by different animators ⓘ segments written by different writers ⓘ |
| hasContentRating | TV-MA ⓘ |
| hasDistribution | cable television ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
interstitial sketches linking segments
ⓘ
multiple animation styles per episode ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfEpisodes | 26 ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfSeasons | 2 ⓘ |
| hasRunningTimePerEpisode | approximately 22 minutes ⓘ |
| hasSegmentType |
recurring animated sketches
ⓘ
standalone animated shorts ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
dark and absurd situations
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parody ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| isBroadcastInFormat | HDTV ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Comedy Central original programming
ⓘ
linked to:
Comedy Central
|
| lastAired | 2016-08-29 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originallyBroadcastAs | television series ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | Comedy Central ⓘ |
| productionCompany | ShadowMachine ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adults ⓘ |
| usesAnimationTechnique | 2D animation ⓘ |
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: TripTank Description of subject: TripTank is an animated sketch comedy television series featuring a variety of short, often dark and absurd cartoons created by different animators and writers.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.