The Bill
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The Bill is a long-running British police procedural television series that focuses on the lives and work of officers at the fictional Sun Hill police station in London.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Bill canonical | 51 |
| The Bill (TV series) | 1 |
| television series The Bill | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4677370 — 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)
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Target entity: The Bill Context triple: [Gareth David-Lloyd, appearedIn, The Bill]
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A.
News at Ten
News at Ten is the BBC’s flagship late-evening television news bulletin, providing in-depth national and international news coverage each night.
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B.
Line of Duty
Line of Duty is a British crime drama television series that follows an anti-corruption police unit investigating complex and morally ambiguous cases within the force.
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C.
Life as a House
Life as a House is a 2001 American drama film about a terminally ill man who attempts to rebuild both his dilapidated house and his fractured relationship with his son.
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D.
It’s a Sin
It’s a Sin is a British television drama miniseries created by Russell T Davies that follows a group of friends in 1980s London whose lives are profoundly affected by the emerging HIV/AIDS crisis.
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E.
The Affair
The Affair is an American television drama series that explores the emotional and psychological effects of an extramarital relationship and its aftermath through multiple, often conflicting perspectives.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: The Bill Target entity description: The Bill is a long-running British police procedural television series that focuses on the lives and work of officers at the fictional Sun Hill police station in London.
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A.
News at Ten
News at Ten is the BBC’s flagship late-evening television news bulletin, providing in-depth national and international news coverage each night.
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B.
Line of Duty
Line of Duty is a British crime drama television series that follows an anti-corruption police unit investigating complex and morally ambiguous cases within the force.
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C.
Life as a House
Life as a House is a 2001 American drama film about a terminally ill man who attempts to rebuild both his dilapidated house and his fractured relationship with his son.
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D.
It’s a Sin
It’s a Sin is a British television drama miniseries created by Russell T Davies that follows a group of friends in 1980s London whose lives are profoundly affected by the emerging HIV/AIDS crisis.
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E.
The Affair
The Affair is an American television drama series that explores the emotional and psychological effects of an extramarital relationship and its aftermath through multiple, often conflicting perspectives.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British television series
ⓘ
police procedural television series ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| basedOn | Woodentop NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| broadcastFormat | standard definition television ⓘ |
| broadcastOn | ITV1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cancellationAnnouncedBy | ITV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cancellationYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Geoff McQueen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depictsOrganization | Metropolitan Police Service NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
Merton, London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1984-10-16 ⓘ |
| formatChange | from half-hour episodes to hour-long episodes in 1988 ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
drama ⓘ police procedural ⓘ |
| hasSpinOff |
The Bill: Target
NERFINISHED
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The Bill: Uncovered NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isFictionalPoliceStation | Sun Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lastAired | 2010-08-31 ⓘ |
| laterBroadcastAs |
thrice-weekly series
ⓘ
twice-weekly series ⓘ |
| laterBroadcastFormat | high definition television ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | ensemble cast ⓘ |
| notableCharacter |
Don Beech
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jack Meadows NERFINISHED ⓘ Jim Carver NERFINISHED ⓘ June Ackland NERFINISHED ⓘ Reg Hollis NERFINISHED ⓘ Samantha Nixon NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Stamp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 2400+ ⓘ |
| numberOfSeries | 26 ⓘ |
| openingTheme | “Overkill” (instrumental variations) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originallyBroadcastAs | weekly series ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | ITV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pilotAired | 1983-08-16 ⓘ |
| pilotTitle | Woodentop NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Talkback Thames
NERFINISHED
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Thames Television NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn |
London
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sun Hill police station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adults ⓘ |
| theme |
crime investigation
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personal lives of police officers ⓘ police work ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | contemporary to time of production ⓘ |
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 Bill Description of subject: The Bill is a long-running British police procedural television series that focuses on the lives and work of officers at the fictional Sun Hill police station in London.
Referenced by (53)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
television series The Bill
subject surface form:
Tom Courtenay
this entity surface form:
The Bill (TV series)