Switching Channels
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Switching Channels is a 1988 comedy film that updates the classic newspaper-room farce to a modern television news setting, starring Kathleen Turner, Burt Reynolds, and Christopher Reeve.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Switching Channels canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6135192 — 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: Switching Channels Context triple: [The Front Page, adaptedAs, Switching Channels]
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A.
Code Switch
Code Switch is an NPR podcast and journalism project that explores how race, identity, and culture shape American life and politics.
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B.
Channels
Channels is a Django extension that adds support for handling WebSockets, long-running connections, and background tasks, enabling asynchronous and real-time capabilities in Django applications.
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C.
Switch Control
Switch Control is an accessibility feature that lets users operate a computer using one or more adaptive switches instead of traditional input devices like a keyboard or mouse.
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D.
CHANNEX
CHANNEX is the radio callsign used by the British low-cost airline Jet2.com during air traffic communications.
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E.
CHANNEX
CHANNEX is the radio callsign used by Channel Express, a former British cargo and passenger airline.
- 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: Switching Channels Target entity description: Switching Channels is a 1988 comedy film that updates the classic newspaper-room farce to a modern television news setting, starring Kathleen Turner, Burt Reynolds, and Christopher Reeve.
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A.
Code Switch
Code Switch is an NPR podcast and journalism project that explores how race, identity, and culture shape American life and politics.
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B.
Channels
Channels is a Django extension that adds support for handling WebSockets, long-running connections, and background tasks, enabling asynchronous and real-time capabilities in Django applications.
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C.
Switch Control
Switch Control is an accessibility feature that lets users operate a computer using one or more adaptive switches instead of traditional input devices like a keyboard or mouse.
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D.
CHANNEX
CHANNEX is the radio callsign used by the British low-cost airline Jet2.com during air traffic communications.
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E.
CHANNEX
CHANNEX is the radio callsign used by Channel Express, a former British cargo and passenger airline.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | The Front Page NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Front Page NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy |
Ben Hecht
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Charles MacArthur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| castMember |
Alberta Watson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Charles Kimbrough NERFINISHED ⓘ George Newbern NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry Gibson NERFINISHED ⓘ Ken James NERFINISHED ⓘ Ned Beatty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | François Protat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Ted Kotcheff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | TriStar Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Thom Noble NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Toronto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
romantic comedy film ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter |
Blaine Bingham
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Christy Colleran NERFINISHED ⓘ John L. Sullivan IV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTitleType | film title ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
romantic relationships
ⓘ
television journalism ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Michel Legrand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | Chicago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | film adaptations of The Front Page ⓘ |
| producer |
Aaron Spelling
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Alan Greisman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | TriStar Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1988-03-04 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1988 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 105 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
David Williamson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jonathan Reynolds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | television newsroom ⓘ |
| starring |
Burt Reynolds
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Christopher Reeve NERFINISHED ⓘ Kathleen Turner 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: Switching Channels Description of subject: Switching Channels is a 1988 comedy film that updates the classic newspaper-room farce to a modern television news setting, starring Kathleen Turner, Burt Reynolds, and Christopher Reeve.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.