Chris Morris
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actor
film
film director
human
radio presenter
radio programme
satirist
screenwriter
television director
television series
Chris Morris is a British satirist, writer, director, and actor best known for his dark, provocative television and radio comedies such as "Brass Eye" and "The Day Today."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chris Morris canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1641609 — 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: Chris Morris Context triple: [University of Bristol, hasNotableAlumni, Chris Morris]
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A.
Armando Iannucci
Armando Iannucci is a Scottish satirist, writer, director, and producer best known for creating the political comedies "The Thick of It," "In the Loop," and HBO's "Veep."
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B.
Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais is an English comedian, actor, writer, and director best known for co-creating and starring in the original UK version of the television series "The Office."
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C.
Michael Palin
Michael Palin is a British comedian, actor, writer, and television presenter best known as a core member of the surreal comedy group Monty Python and later for his acclaimed travel documentaries.
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D.
Tony Hancock
Tony Hancock was a celebrated English comedian and actor best known for his influential 1950s–60s radio and television series "Hancock's Half Hour."
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E.
Jack Whitehall
Jack Whitehall is a British comedian, actor, and writer known for his stand-up comedy and roles in series like "Fresh Meat" and "Bad Education," as well as various film and presenting work.
- 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: Chris Morris Target entity description: Chris Morris is a British satirist, writer, director, and actor best known for his dark, provocative television and radio comedies such as "Brass Eye" and "The Day Today."
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A.
Armando Iannucci
Armando Iannucci is a Scottish satirist, writer, director, and producer best known for creating the political comedies "The Thick of It," "In the Loop," and HBO's "Veep."
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B.
Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais is an English comedian, actor, writer, and director best known for co-creating and starring in the original UK version of the television series "The Office."
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C.
Michael Palin
Michael Palin is a British comedian, actor, writer, and television presenter best known as a core member of the surreal comedy group Monty Python and later for his acclaimed travel documentaries.
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D.
Tony Hancock
Tony Hancock was a celebrated English comedian and actor best known for his influential 1950s–60s radio and television series "Hancock's Half Hour."
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E.
Jack Whitehall
Jack Whitehall is a British comedian, actor, and writer known for his stand-up comedy and roles in series like "Fresh Meat" and "Bad Education," as well as various film and presenting work.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film ⓘ film director ⓘ human ⓘ radio presenter ⓘ radio programme ⓘ radio programme ⓘ satirist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television director ⓘ television series ⓘ television series ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator |
Chris Morris
self-linksurface differs
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Chris Morris self-linksurface differs ⓘ Chris Morris self-linksurface differs ⓘ Chris Morris self-linksurface differs ⓘ Chris Morris self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| director | Chris Morris self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| genre |
black comedy
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black comedy ⓘ black comedy ⓘ black comedy ⓘ political satire ⓘ satire ⓘ satire ⓘ satire ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| givenName | Christopher ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Chris Morris self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
dark provocative comedy
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radio satire ⓘ television satire ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Blue Jam
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Brass Eye ⓘ Four Lions ⓘ Jam ⓘ Nathan Barley ⓘ On the Hour ⓘ The Day Today ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film director ⓘ radio producer ⓘ satirist ⓘ television director ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| originalLanguageOfFilmOrTVShow |
English
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English ⓘ |
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: Chris Morris Description of subject: Chris Morris is a British satirist, writer, director, and actor best known for his dark, provocative television and radio comedies such as "Brass Eye" and "The Day Today."
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Brass Eye
subject surface form:
The Day Today
subject surface form:
On the Hour
subject surface form:
Blue Jam
subject surface form:
Jam
subject surface form:
Four Lions