The Big Bang Theory
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The Big Bang Theory is a popular American sitcom that follows a group of socially awkward scientists and their friends, blending geek culture with traditional comedy.
All labels observed (11)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T294889 — 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 Big Bang Theory Context triple: [CBS, notableProgram, The Big Bang Theory]
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Arrested Development
Arrested Development is a critically acclaimed American television sitcom known for its ensemble cast, layered running gags, and mockumentary-style storytelling about the dysfunctional Bluth family.
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B.
The Orville
The Orville is a science fiction comedy-drama television series created by and starring Seth MacFarlane that parodies and pays homage to classic space exploration shows like Star Trek.
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Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey is a 2014 science documentary television series hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson that explores the universe, scientific discovery, and the laws of nature using modern visual effects and storytelling.
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D.
The Adjustment Bureau
The Adjustment Bureau is a 2011 science-fiction romantic thriller film about a politician who discovers a mysterious organization that controls fate, co-starring Emily Blunt and Matt Damon.
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The Cleveland Show
The Cleveland Show is an animated sitcom and spin-off of Family Guy that follows Cleveland Brown and his new family in the fictional town of Stoolbend, Virginia.
- 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 Big Bang Theory Target entity description: The Big Bang Theory is a popular American sitcom that follows a group of socially awkward scientists and their friends, blending geek culture with traditional comedy.
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A.
Arrested Development
Arrested Development is a critically acclaimed American television sitcom known for its ensemble cast, layered running gags, and mockumentary-style storytelling about the dysfunctional Bluth family.
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B.
The Orville
The Orville is a science fiction comedy-drama television series created by and starring Seth MacFarlane that parodies and pays homage to classic space exploration shows like Star Trek.
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C.
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey is a 2014 science documentary television series hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson that explores the universe, scientific discovery, and the laws of nature using modern visual effects and storytelling.
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D.
The Adjustment Bureau
The Adjustment Bureau is a 2011 science-fiction romantic thriller film about a politician who discovers a mysterious organization that controls fate, co-starring Emily Blunt and Matt Damon.
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E.
The Cleveland Show
The Cleveland Show is an animated sitcom and spin-off of Family Guy that follows Cleveland Brown and his new family in the fictional town of Stoolbend, Virginia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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 Big Bang Theory Description of subject: The Big Bang Theory is a popular American sitcom that follows a group of socially awkward scientists and their friends, blending geek culture with traditional comedy.
Referenced by (68)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Big Bang Theory (as producer via company association)
this entity surface form:
Big Bang Theory (staff work)