Clockwise
E464096
Clockwise is a 1986 British comedy film starring John Cleese as a punctual but beleaguered headmaster whose obsessive timekeeping leads to a series of disastrous misadventures.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Clockwise canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4716939 — 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: Clockwise Context triple: [John Cleese, notableWork, Clockwise]
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A.
Turn to the Right
Turn to the Right is a 1919 American silent comedy-drama film, directed by Rex Ingram, in which actress Alice Terry played one of her early notable roles.
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B.
Facing Left
"Facing Left" is a jazz album by American pianist and composer Jason Moran that showcases his innovative, contemporary approach to the piano trio format.
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C.
Circling
"Circling" is a song featured on the album *Higher Truth* by Chris Cornell.
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D.
Round and Round
"Round and Round" is the B-side track to Lionel Richie's 1984 single "Stuck on You," featured on his hit album "Can't Slow Down."
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E.
Back & Forth
"Back & Forth" is the 1994 debut single by American singer Aaliyah, a smooth R&B track that helped launch her career and became one of her signature songs.
- 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: Clockwise Target entity description: Clockwise is a 1986 British comedy film starring John Cleese as a punctual but beleaguered headmaster whose obsessive timekeeping leads to a series of disastrous misadventures.
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A.
Turn to the Right
Turn to the Right is a 1919 American silent comedy-drama film, directed by Rex Ingram, in which actress Alice Terry played one of her early notable roles.
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B.
Facing Left
"Facing Left" is a jazz album by American pianist and composer Jason Moran that showcases his innovative, contemporary approach to the piano trio format.
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C.
Circling
"Circling" is a song featured on the album *Higher Truth* by Chris Cornell.
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D.
Round and Round
"Round and Round" is the B-side track to Lionel Richie's 1984 single "Stuck on You," featured on his hit album "Can't Slow Down."
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E.
Back & Forth
"Back & Forth" is the 1994 debut single by American singer Aaliyah, a smooth R&B track that helped launch her career and became one of her signature songs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British comedy film
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film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay by Michael Frayn ⓘ |
| characterRole |
Alison Steadman as Gwenda Stimpson
NERFINISHED
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John Cleese as Brian Stimpson NERFINISHED ⓘ Penelope Wilton as Pat NERFINISHED ⓘ Sharon Maiden as Laura Wisely NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Kenneth MacMillan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | George Fenton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Christopher Morahan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | The Rank Organisation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Rank Film Distributors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Peter Tanner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featureFilmDebutFor | Sharon Maiden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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farce ⓘ road movie ⓘ |
| hasPosterTagline | “The more he tries to be on time, the worse it gets.” ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
obsession
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social embarrassment ⓘ time and punctuality ⓘ |
| hasWikipediaPage | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clockwise_(film) ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Brian Stimpson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | obsessive timekeeping ⓘ |
| notableFor | John Cleese’s portrayal of a time-obsessed headmaster ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | British cinema of the 1980s ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A punctual headmaster’s attempts to reach a headmasters’ conference on time lead to escalating misadventures. ⓘ |
| producer | Michael Codron NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | HandMade Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1986-03-21 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 96 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Michael Frayn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 1980s ⓘ |
| starring |
Alison Steadman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Geoffrey Palmer NERFINISHED ⓘ Joan Hickson NERFINISHED ⓘ John Cleese NERFINISHED ⓘ Penelope Wilton NERFINISHED ⓘ Sharon Maiden NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephen Moore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Clockwise Description of subject: Clockwise is a 1986 British comedy film starring John Cleese as a punctual but beleaguered headmaster whose obsessive timekeeping leads to a series of disastrous misadventures.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
John Cleese