Mama (TV series)
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Mama (TV series) is an early American television drama, adapted from the play and film "I Remember Mama," that portrayed the everyday life of a Norwegian-American family in early 20th-century San Francisco.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mama (TV series) canonical | 1 |
| Mama (television series) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6320652 — 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: Mama (TV series) Context triple: [Dick Van Patten, notableWork, Mama (TV series)]
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A.
Mom (TV series)
Mom is an American sitcom that follows a newly sober single mother and her estranged mother as they navigate recovery, family, and everyday chaos with a blend of sharp humor and heartfelt drama.
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B.
Mama’s Family
Mama’s Family is an American sitcom spun off from a popular sketch on The Carol Burnett Show, centered on the loud, sharp-tongued matriarch Thelma “Mama” Harper and her dysfunctional Southern family.
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C.
Mama
"Mama" is a 1987 debut novel by Terry McMillan that follows a resilient Black single mother struggling to raise her children and rebuild her life amid poverty and personal turmoil.
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D.
Mama
Mama is a key supporting character in the video game "Death Stranding," a brilliant yet tragic scientist who aids protagonist Sam Porter Bridges with her expertise in chiral technology.
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E.
Mama
"Mama" is a dark, emotionally intense 1983 song by the English rock band Genesis, known for its haunting atmosphere and Phil Collins's distinctive vocal delivery.
- 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: Mama (TV series) Target entity description: Mama (TV series) is an early American television drama, adapted from the play and film "I Remember Mama," that portrayed the everyday life of a Norwegian-American family in early 20th-century San Francisco.
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A.
Mom (TV series)
Mom is an American sitcom that follows a newly sober single mother and her estranged mother as they navigate recovery, family, and everyday chaos with a blend of sharp humor and heartfelt drama.
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B.
Mama’s Family
Mama’s Family is an American sitcom spun off from a popular sketch on The Carol Burnett Show, centered on the loud, sharp-tongued matriarch Thelma “Mama” Harper and her dysfunctional Southern family.
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C.
Mama
"Mama" is a 1987 debut novel by Terry McMillan that follows a resilient Black single mother struggling to raise her children and rebuild her life amid poverty and personal turmoil.
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D.
Mama
Mama is a key supporting character in the video game "Death Stranding," a brilliant yet tragic scientist who aids protagonist Sam Porter Bridges with her expertise in chiral technology.
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E.
Mama
"Mama" is a dark, emotionally intense 1983 song by the English rock band Genesis, known for its haunting atmosphere and Phil Collins's distinctive vocal delivery.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | American television series ⓘ |
| adaptationFromMedium |
film
ⓘ
theatre ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | I Remember Mama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | I Remember Mama (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
I Remember Mama (film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
I Remember Mama (play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| depictsEthnicBackground | Norwegian-American ⓘ |
| follows | Norwegian-American family ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
family drama ⓘ |
| hasCulturalOrigin | Norwegian-American culture ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Mama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Marta Hansen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeLocationTime | early 20th century ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originallyAiredOn | CBS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | CBS ⓘ |
| portrays | everyday family life ⓘ |
| portraysTheme |
domestic life
ⓘ
immigrant family experience ⓘ intergenerational relationships ⓘ |
| productionType | black-and-white television series ⓘ |
| setInCountry | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInState | California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | family audience ⓘ |
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: Mama (TV series) Description of subject: Mama (TV series) is an early American television drama, adapted from the play and film "I Remember Mama," that portrayed the everyday life of a Norwegian-American family in early 20th-century San Francisco.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mama (television series)