BBC Radio 4 Extra
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BBC Radio 4 Extra is a British digital radio station from the BBC that specializes in archived comedy, drama, and entertainment programming.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| BBC Radio 4 Extra canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T671196 — 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: BBC Radio 4 Extra Context triple: [BBC Radio 4, sisterStation, BBC Radio 4 Extra]
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A.
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a major British national radio station known for its spoken-word programming, including news, drama, comedy, and documentaries.
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B.
BBC Sounds
BBC Sounds is the BBC’s digital audio platform offering live radio, music mixes, and podcasts across web and mobile apps.
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C.
BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 3 is a British national radio station operated by the BBC, best known for its focus on classical music, opera, jazz, and arts programming.
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D.
BBC Alba
BBC Alba is a Scottish Gaelic-language television channel operated by the BBC that broadcasts a mix of news, sports, and cultural programming.
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E.
BBC Radio 5 Live
BBC Radio 5 Live is a UK national radio station known for its live news, sport, and phone-in programming.
- 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: BBC Radio 4 Extra Target entity description: BBC Radio 4 Extra is a British digital radio station from the BBC that specializes in archived comedy, drama, and entertainment programming.
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A.
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a major British national radio station known for its spoken-word programming, including news, drama, comedy, and documentaries.
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B.
BBC Sounds
BBC Sounds is the BBC’s digital audio platform offering live radio, music mixes, and podcasts across web and mobile apps.
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C.
BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 3 is a British national radio station operated by the BBC, best known for its focus on classical music, opera, jazz, and arts programming.
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D.
BBC Alba
BBC Alba is a Scottish Gaelic-language television channel operated by the BBC that broadcasts a mix of news, sports, and cultural programming.
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E.
BBC Radio 5 Live
BBC Radio 5 Live is a UK national radio station known for its live news, sport, and phone-in programming.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
BBC radio station
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digital radio station ⓘ radio station ⓘ |
| availableOn | online streaming ⓘ |
| broadcastArea |
United Kingdom
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worldwide via internet ⓘ |
| broadcastOn |
BBC Sounds
ⓘ
DAB digital radio ⓘ Freesat ⓘ Freeview ⓘ Sky ⓘ Virgin Media (UK) ⓘ
surface form:
Virgin Media
|
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
archive BBC radio content
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classic BBC comedy series ⓘ classic BBC drama series ⓘ |
| format |
comedy
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drama ⓘ entertainment ⓘ speech-based ⓘ |
| formerName |
BBC 7
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BBC Radio 7 ⓘ |
| genre |
radio comedy
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radio drama ⓘ |
| hasProgrammingType |
children’s archive programming
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panel shows ⓘ serialised drama ⓘ sketch comedy ⓘ stand-up comedy ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| inception | 2002-12-15 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| network | BBC Digital Radio ⓘ |
| operator | BBC ⓘ |
| owner | BBC ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | BBC Radio ⓘ |
| partOf |
BBC Radio
ⓘ
surface form:
BBC National Radio services
|
| rebrandedAs | BBC Radio 4 Extra in 2011 ⓘ |
| rebrandingDate | 2011-04-02 ⓘ |
| regulator | Ofcom ⓘ |
| serviceType | digital-only radio service ⓘ |
| sisterStation |
BBC Radio 1
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BBC Radio 2 ⓘ BBC Radio 3 ⓘ BBC Radio 4 ⓘ BBC Radio 5 Live ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
archived comedy programming
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archived drama programming ⓘ archived entertainment programming ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult listeners ⓘ |
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: BBC Radio 4 Extra Description of subject: BBC Radio 4 Extra is a British digital radio station from the BBC that specializes in archived comedy, drama, and entertainment programming.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.