That Was the Week That Was
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That Was the Week That Was was a pioneering 1960s British television satire program that helped define modern political comedy and launched several major satirical careers.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| That Was the Week That Was canonical | 5 |
| That Was the Week That Was theme | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3473405 — 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: That Was the Week That Was Context triple: [David Frost, notableWork, That Was the Week That Was]
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A.
Beyond the Fringe
Beyond the Fringe is a groundbreaking early-1960s British satirical stage revue that helped launch the modern era of sketch comedy and satire.
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B.
The Secret Policeman’s Ball
The Secret Policeman’s Ball is a famed British comedy and music benefit show series, originally staged for Amnesty International, that brought together leading comedians and musicians in the late 1970s and 1980s.
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C.
Not the Nine O'Clock News
Not the Nine O'Clock News is a British television sketch comedy series from the late 1970s and early 1980s known for its satirical take on current events and for launching the careers of several prominent comedians.
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D.
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Monty Python's Flying Circus is a groundbreaking British sketch comedy television series known for its surreal, absurdist humor and influential impact on modern comedy.
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E.
Hancock's Half Hour
Hancock's Half Hour is a classic British radio and television comedy series from the 1950s and early 1960s, starring Tony Hancock and known for its character-driven humor and influential role in shaping modern sitcoms.
- 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: That Was the Week That Was Target entity description: That Was the Week That Was was a pioneering 1960s British television satire program that helped define modern political comedy and launched several major satirical careers.
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A.
Beyond the Fringe
Beyond the Fringe is a groundbreaking early-1960s British satirical stage revue that helped launch the modern era of sketch comedy and satire.
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B.
The Secret Policeman’s Ball
The Secret Policeman’s Ball is a famed British comedy and music benefit show series, originally staged for Amnesty International, that brought together leading comedians and musicians in the late 1970s and 1980s.
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C.
Not the Nine O'Clock News
Not the Nine O'Clock News is a British television sketch comedy series from the late 1970s and early 1980s known for its satirical take on current events and for launching the careers of several prominent comedians.
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D.
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Monty Python's Flying Circus is a groundbreaking British sketch comedy television series known for its surreal, absurdist humor and influential impact on modern comedy.
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E.
Hancock's Half Hour
Hancock's Half Hour is a classic British radio and television comedy series from the 1950s and early 1960s, starring Tony Hancock and known for its character-driven humor and influential role in shaping modern sitcoms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: That Was the Week That Was Description of subject: That Was the Week That Was was a pioneering 1960s British television satire program that helped define modern political comedy and launched several major satirical careers.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
David Frost
this entity surface form:
That Was the Week That Was theme
this entity surface form:
That Was the Week That Was theme