Prime Minister’s Questions

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parliamentary procedure question time

Prime Minister’s Questions is a weekly session in the UK House of Commons where the Prime Minister answers questions from Members of Parliament, including the Leader of the Opposition.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Prime Minister’s Questions canonical	3
Prime Minister's Questions	2
PMQs	1
Prime Minister’s Question Time (twice weekly sessions)	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T149302 — 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: Prime Minister’s Questions
Context triple: [Hansard, coverage, Prime Minister’s Questions]

A. Hansard
Hansard is the official verbatim record of debates and proceedings in the UK Parliament.
B. State Opening of Parliament
The State Opening of Parliament is a grand annual ceremony in the United Kingdom that marks the formal start of the parliamentary year, featuring the monarch’s speech outlining the government’s legislative agenda.
C. Speaker of the House of Commons
The Speaker of the House of Commons is the politically neutral chief officer and highest authority of the UK’s lower parliamentary chamber, responsible for maintaining order, overseeing debates, and representing the Commons.
D. Leader of the House of Commons
The Leader of the House of Commons is a senior UK government minister responsible for arranging and managing the government's legislative business in the House of Commons.
E. House of Commons of the United Kingdom
The House of Commons of the United Kingdom is the lower house of the UK Parliament, composed of elected Members of Parliament who debate and pass legislation and scrutinize the government.
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: Prime Minister’s Questions
Target entity description: Prime Minister’s Questions is a weekly session in the UK House of Commons where the Prime Minister answers questions from Members of Parliament, including the Leader of the Opposition.

A. Hansard
Hansard is the official verbatim record of debates and proceedings in the UK Parliament.
B. State Opening of Parliament
The State Opening of Parliament is a grand annual ceremony in the United Kingdom that marks the formal start of the parliamentary year, featuring the monarch’s speech outlining the government’s legislative agenda.
C. Speaker of the House of Commons
The Speaker of the House of Commons is the politically neutral chief officer and highest authority of the UK’s lower parliamentary chamber, responsible for maintaining order, overseeing debates, and representing the Commons.
D. Leader of the House of Commons
The Leader of the House of Commons is a senior UK government minister responsible for arranging and managing the government's legislative business in the House of Commons.
E. House of Commons of the United Kingdom
The House of Commons of the United Kingdom is the lower house of the UK Parliament, composed of elected Members of Parliament who debate and pass legislation and scrutinize the government.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	parliamentary procedure ⓘ question time ⓘ
associatedWith	British political culture ⓘ Westminster system of government ⓘ
broadcastBy	BBC television services ⓘ surface form: BBC Parliament BBC Radio 5 Live ⓘ Parliamentary Broadcasting Unit (Parliamentlive.tv) ⓘ surface form: Parliamentlive.tv Sky News ⓘ
chamber	House of Commons chamber ⓘ
characteristic	highly adversarial tone ⓘ often noisy and confrontational ⓘ significant media attention ⓘ
country	United Kingdom ⓘ
dayOfWeek	Wednesday ⓘ
frequency	weekly ⓘ
governingBody	British Parliament ⓘ surface form: Parliament of the United Kingdom
hasFormat	oral questions ⓘ questions without notice ⓘ supplementary questions ⓘ
historicalPrecursor	Prime Minister’s Questions self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Prime Minister’s Question Time (twice weekly sessions)
introducedBy	New Labour ⓘ surface form: Tony Blair government
language	English ⓘ
legalFramework	Standing Orders of the House of Commons ⓘ
legislativeBody	House of Commons of the United Kingdom ⓘ
location	Palace of Westminster ⓘ
mainParticipantRole	Leader of the Opposition ⓘ Prime Minister ⓘ surface form: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
notableFor	set-piece exchanges between Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition ⓘ
openTo	all Members of Parliament ⓘ
participantRole	Members of Parliament ⓘ Speaker of the House of Commons ⓘ
precededBy	Prime Minister’s Question Time on Tuesdays and Thursdays ⓘ
purpose	to hold the Prime Minister to account ⓘ to scrutinise government policy ⓘ
questionAllocation	questions from backbench MPs ⓘ questions from leaders of smaller opposition parties ⓘ questions from the Leader of the Opposition ⓘ
regulatedBy	Speaker’s rulings ⓘ
shortName	Prime Minister’s Questions self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: PMQs
significantChange	moved to a single weekly session in 1997 ⓘ
subjectOf	live television broadcasts ⓘ radio broadcasts ⓘ
timeZone	UK time ⓘ
topic	current political issues ⓘ government policy ⓘ public administration ⓘ
typicalStartTime	12:00 ⓘ

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Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Hansard → coverage → Prime Minister’s Questions ⓘ

Prime Minister’s Questions → shortName → Prime Minister’s Questions self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: PMQs

Prime Minister’s Questions → historicalPrecursor → Prime Minister’s Questions self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Prime Minister’s Question Time (twice weekly sessions)

Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom → participatesIn → Prime Minister’s Questions ⓘ

subject surface form: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

this entity surface form: Prime Minister's Questions

House of Commons chamber → usedFor → Prime Minister’s Questions ⓘ

Speaker’s Chair in the House of Commons chamber → usedDuring → Prime Minister’s Questions ⓘ

DUP Westminster group → participatesIn → Prime Minister’s Questions ⓘ