The Thin Blue Line
E191028
The Thin Blue Line is a British sitcom starring Rowan Atkinson as an inept yet well-meaning police inspector in a small-town police station.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Thin Blue Line canonical | 5 |
| The Thin Blue Line (TV series) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1698474 — 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: The Thin Blue Line Context triple: [Rowan Atkinson, notableWork, The Thin Blue Line]
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A.
Disobedience
Disobedience is a 2017 romantic drama film exploring forbidden love and religious tradition within an Orthodox Jewish community in London.
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B.
American Crime
American Crime is an anthology crime drama television series that explores complex social and racial issues through interconnected stories of crime and its impact on victims, perpetrators, and communities.
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C.
Mystic River
Mystic River is a tidal estuary in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, historically significant for shipbuilding and industrial activity along its banks.
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D.
Bowling for Columbine
Bowling for Columbine is a 2002 documentary film by Michael Moore that explores gun violence and the culture of fear in the United States.
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E.
Gimme Shelter
Gimme Shelter is a 1969 rock song by the Rolling Stones, renowned for its dark, apocalyptic tone and iconic opening riff.
- 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 Thin Blue Line Target entity description: The Thin Blue Line is a British sitcom starring Rowan Atkinson as an inept yet well-meaning police inspector in a small-town police station.
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A.
Disobedience
Disobedience is a 2017 romantic drama film exploring forbidden love and religious tradition within an Orthodox Jewish community in London.
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B.
American Crime
American Crime is an anthology crime drama television series that explores complex social and racial issues through interconnected stories of crime and its impact on victims, perpetrators, and communities.
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C.
Mystic River
Mystic River is a tidal estuary in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, historically significant for shipbuilding and industrial activity along its banks.
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D.
Bowling for Columbine
Bowling for Columbine is a 2002 documentary film by Michael Moore that explores gun violence and the culture of fear in the United States.
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E.
Gimme Shelter
Gimme Shelter is a 1969 rock song by the Rolling Stones, renowned for its dark, apocalyptic tone and iconic opening riff.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: The Thin Blue Line Description of subject: The Thin Blue Line is a British sitcom starring Rowan Atkinson as an inept yet well-meaning police inspector in a small-town police station.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Thin Blue Line (TV series)