The Larkins
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The Larkins is a British comedy-drama television series adapted from H.E. Bates's "The Darling Buds of May," following the warm-hearted, chaotic life of the Larkin family in rural 1950s Kent.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Larkins canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11356989 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Larkins Context triple: [Hugh Skinner, notableWork, The Larkins]
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A.
Mr and Mrs Lacey
Mr and Mrs Lacey are the parents of Gwendoline Mary Lacey, a character in Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers series.
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B.
The Torkelsons
The Torkelsons is an early-1990s American family sitcom that follows a single mother and her children navigating everyday life and financial struggles in a small Oklahoma town.
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C.
The Bickersons
The Bickersons was a popular mid-20th-century American radio comedy series featuring Don Ameche and Frances Langford as a constantly bickering married couple, considered a forerunner of later domestic sitcoms.
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D.
The Wilkinsons
The Wilkinsons were a Canadian country music trio, best known for their late-1990s hit "26 Cents" and tight family harmonies.
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E.
The Buchanans
The Buchanans are a hip-hop production duo known for crafting soulful, sample-driven beats for prominent artists, including work on Jay-Z’s "The Black Album."
- 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 Larkins Target entity description: The Larkins is a British comedy-drama television series adapted from H.E. Bates's "The Darling Buds of May," following the warm-hearted, chaotic life of the Larkin family in rural 1950s Kent.
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A.
Mr and Mrs Lacey
Mr and Mrs Lacey are the parents of Gwendoline Mary Lacey, a character in Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers series.
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B.
The Torkelsons
The Torkelsons is an early-1990s American family sitcom that follows a single mother and her children navigating everyday life and financial struggles in a small Oklahoma town.
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C.
The Bickersons
The Bickersons was a popular mid-20th-century American radio comedy series featuring Don Ameche and Frances Langford as a constantly bickering married couple, considered a forerunner of later domestic sitcoms.
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D.
The Wilkinsons
The Wilkinsons were a Canadian country music trio, best known for their late-1990s hit "26 Cents" and tight family harmonies.
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E.
The Buchanans
The Buchanans are a hip-hop production duo known for crafting soulful, sample-driven beats for prominent artists, including work on Jay-Z’s "The Black Album."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British television series
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comedy-drama television series ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Darling Buds of May NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | H. E. Bates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| distributor | ITV Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Kent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAired | 2021 ⓘ |
| follows | Larkin family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | comedy-drama ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Alec Norman
NERFINISHED
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Charley Charlton NERFINISHED ⓘ Ma Larkin NERFINISHED ⓘ Mariette Larkin NERFINISHED ⓘ Miss Edith Pilchester NERFINISHED ⓘ Norman NERFINISHED ⓘ PC Harness NERFINISHED ⓘ Pop Larkin NERFINISHED ⓘ Reverend Candy NERFINISHED ⓘ Vicar ⓘ |
| hasSeasons | 2 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | ITV ⓘ |
| predecessor | The Darling Buds of May (1991 TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Genial Productions
NERFINISHED
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Objective Fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingCountry | England ⓘ |
| settingPlace | Kent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTimePeriod | 1950s ⓘ |
| stars |
Amelia Bullmore
NERFINISHED
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Bradley Walsh NERFINISHED ⓘ Frances Barber NERFINISHED ⓘ Joanna Scanlan NERFINISHED ⓘ Kriss Dosanjh NERFINISHED ⓘ Liam Middleton NERFINISHED ⓘ Lola Shepelev NERFINISHED ⓘ Lydia Page NERFINISHED ⓘ Maxim Ays NERFINISHED ⓘ Natalie Mitson NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Davison NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Bathurst NERFINISHED ⓘ Sabrina Bartlett NERFINISHED ⓘ Seeta Indrani NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephen Hagan NERFINISHED ⓘ Tok Stephen NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Gardner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
family life
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post-war England ⓘ rural life ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Larkins Description of subject: The Larkins is a British comedy-drama television series adapted from H.E. Bates's "The Darling Buds of May," following the warm-hearted, chaotic life of the Larkin family in rural 1950s Kent.
Referenced by (2)
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