These Friends of Mine
E303428
These Friends of Mine is the original title of the 1990s ABC sitcom that later became known as Ellen, starring Ellen DeGeneres.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| These Friends of Mine canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2835474 — 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: These Friends of Mine Context triple: [Ellen, basedOn, These Friends of Mine]
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A.
Friend of Mine
"Friend of Mine" is a track by The Notorious B.I.G. from his landmark 1994 debut hip-hop album *Ready to Die*.
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B.
The Friendly Ones
The Friendly Ones is a novel by British author Philip Hensher that interweaves the lives of two families across decades to explore themes of politics, history, and personal morality.
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C.
Four Friends
Four Friends is a 1981 coming-of-age drama film that follows the intertwined lives of four young people navigating love, identity, and social upheaval in 1960s America.
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D.
Stories I Only Tell My Friends
Stories I Only Tell My Friends is a memoir by actor Rob Lowe that recounts his experiences in Hollywood, from his early fame in the 1980s to his later career and personal growth.
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E.
Thank You for Being a Friend
"Thank You for Being a Friend" is a pop song written and originally recorded by Andrew Gold, best known as the theme song for the television sitcom *The Golden Girls*.
- 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: These Friends of Mine Target entity description: These Friends of Mine is the original title of the 1990s ABC sitcom that later became known as Ellen, starring Ellen DeGeneres.
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A.
Friend of Mine
"Friend of Mine" is a track by The Notorious B.I.G. from his landmark 1994 debut hip-hop album *Ready to Die*.
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B.
The Friendly Ones
The Friendly Ones is a novel by British author Philip Hensher that interweaves the lives of two families across decades to explore themes of politics, history, and personal morality.
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C.
Four Friends
Four Friends is a 1981 coming-of-age drama film that follows the intertwined lives of four young people navigating love, identity, and social upheaval in 1960s America.
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D.
Stories I Only Tell My Friends
Stories I Only Tell My Friends is a memoir by actor Rob Lowe that recounts his experiences in Hollywood, from his early fame in the 1980s to his later career and personal growth.
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E.
Thank You for Being a Friend
"Thank You for Being a Friend" is a pop song written and originally recorded by Andrew Gold, best known as the theme song for the television sitcom *The Golden Girls*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
sitcom
ⓘ
television series ⓘ |
| airedOn | ABC ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| featuresTheme | friendship ⓘ |
| followedBy | Ellen ⓘ |
| genre | situational comedy ⓘ |
| hasFormat | half-hour sitcom ⓘ |
| hasGenre | comedy ⓘ |
| hasLeadActor | Ellen DeGeneres ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter | Ellen Morgan ⓘ |
| hasSetting | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| hasTitle | These Friends of Mine self-link ⓘ |
| laterKnownAs | Ellen ⓘ |
| mediaType | television program ⓘ |
| originalChannel | American Broadcasting Company ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | ABC ⓘ |
| originalReleaseDecade | 1990s ⓘ |
| partOf | American network television sitcoms ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
ABC studios
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surface form:
ABC Studios
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| starring | Ellen DeGeneres ⓘ |
| titleChangedTo | Ellen ⓘ |
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: These Friends of Mine Description of subject: These Friends of Mine is the original title of the 1990s ABC sitcom that later became known as Ellen, starring Ellen DeGeneres.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.