A Cock and Bull Story
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A Cock and Bull Story is a 2005 British metafictional comedy film, loosely adapting Laurence Sterne’s novel Tristram Shandy and playfully blurring the lines between filmmaking and reality.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| A Cock and Bull Story canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3067350 — 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: A Cock and Bull Story Context triple: [Frank Cottrell-Boyce, notableWork, A Cock and Bull Story]
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A.
Ripping Yarns
Ripping Yarns is a British television comedy series created by and starring Michael Palin that parodies old-fashioned adventure and boys’ own stories.
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B.
The Trick
The Trick is a British drama film in which George MacKay stars in a story inspired by the real-life "Climategate" email hacking scandal.
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C.
The Cat's-Paw
The Cat's-Paw is a 1934 American comedy film starring Harold Lloyd as a naive missionary’s son unwittingly drawn into small-town political corruption.
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D.
the Father of Lies
The Father of Lies is a biblical epithet for the Devil, emphasizing his role as the ultimate deceiver and source of falsehood.
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E.
The Liar
"The Liar" is a painting by African-American artist Archibald Motley that exemplifies his vivid, jazz-age depictions of Black urban life and social interaction.
- 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: A Cock and Bull Story Target entity description: A Cock and Bull Story is a 2005 British metafictional comedy film, loosely adapting Laurence Sterne’s novel Tristram Shandy and playfully blurring the lines between filmmaking and reality.
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A.
Ripping Yarns
Ripping Yarns is a British television comedy series created by and starring Michael Palin that parodies old-fashioned adventure and boys’ own stories.
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B.
The Trick
The Trick is a British drama film in which George MacKay stars in a story inspired by the real-life "Climategate" email hacking scandal.
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C.
The Cat's-Paw
The Cat's-Paw is a 1934 American comedy film starring Harold Lloyd as a naive missionary’s son unwittingly drawn into small-town political corruption.
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D.
the Father of Lies
The Father of Lies is a biblical epithet for the Devil, emphasizing his role as the ultimate deceiver and source of falsehood.
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E.
The Liar
"The Liar" is a painting by African-American artist Archibald Motley that exemplifies his vivid, jazz-age depictions of Black urban life and social interaction.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: A Cock and Bull Story Description of subject: A Cock and Bull Story is a 2005 British metafictional comedy film, loosely adapting Laurence Sterne’s novel Tristram Shandy and playfully blurring the lines between filmmaking and reality.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Frank Cottrell-Boyce
subject surface form:
Frank Cottrell-Boyce