Blockbuster
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Blockbuster is a 2022 Netflix workplace comedy series set in the last remaining Blockbuster video store, starring Randall Park and Melissa Fumero.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Blockbuster canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6437532 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Blockbuster Context triple: [Melissa Fumero, notableWork, Blockbuster]
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A.
Blockbusters
Blockbusters is a British television quiz show, originally popular in the 1980s, in which contestants answer general knowledge questions to complete a path across a hexagonal game board.
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B.
Mr. Box Office
Mr. Box Office is an American sitcom about a famous movie star sentenced to teach at an inner-city high school, blending celebrity culture with classroom comedy.
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C.
Lions' Gate
Lions' Gate is one of the historic entrances to Jerusalem’s Old City, leading directly toward the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif area.
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D.
Colossal
Colossal is a 2016 genre-blending film that mixes dark comedy, science fiction, and character drama, in which Anne Hathaway plays a woman who discovers her personal struggles are mysteriously linked to a giant monster attacking Seoul.
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E.
The Rock
The Rock is the nickname of Corregidor, a heavily fortified island in the Philippines that played a crucial role in World War II as a last stronghold of Allied forces in the defense of Manila Bay.
- 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: Blockbuster Target entity description: Blockbuster is a 2022 Netflix workplace comedy series set in the last remaining Blockbuster video store, starring Randall Park and Melissa Fumero.
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A.
Blockbusters
Blockbusters is a British television quiz show, originally popular in the 1980s, in which contestants answer general knowledge questions to complete a path across a hexagonal game board.
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B.
Mr. Box Office
Mr. Box Office is an American sitcom about a famous movie star sentenced to teach at an inner-city high school, blending celebrity culture with classroom comedy.
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C.
Lions' Gate
Lions' Gate is one of the historic entrances to Jerusalem’s Old City, leading directly toward the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif area.
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D.
Colossal
Colossal is a 2016 genre-blending film that mixes dark comedy, science fiction, and character drama, in which Anne Hathaway plays a woman who discovers her personal struggles are mysteriously linked to a giant monster attacking Seoul.
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E.
The Rock
The Rock is the nickname of Corregidor, a heavily fortified island in the Philippines that played a crucial role in World War II as a last stronghold of Allied forces in the defense of Manila Bay.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
television series
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workplace comedy television series ⓘ |
| audioFormat | Dolby Digital ⓘ |
| basedOn | Blockbuster LLC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cameraSetup | single-camera ⓘ |
| canceledBy | Netflix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cancellationDate | December 2022 ⓘ |
| castMember |
J. B. Smoove
NERFINISHED
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Kamaia Fairburn NERFINISHED ⓘ Madeleine Arthur NERFINISHED ⓘ Melissa Fumero NERFINISHED ⓘ Olga Merediz NERFINISHED ⓘ Randall Park NERFINISHED ⓘ Tyler Alvarez NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| creator | Vanessa Ramos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Netflix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| episodeRuntime | approximately 26 minutes ⓘ |
| executiveProducer |
David Caspe
NERFINISHED
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Jackie Clarke NERFINISHED ⓘ John Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ John Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ Randall Park NERFINISHED ⓘ Vanessa Ramos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Vancouver ⓘ |
| firstAired | November 3, 2022 ⓘ |
| genre |
sitcom
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workplace comedy ⓘ |
| hasOnlineResource | https://www.netflix.com/title/81013148 ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 10 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 1 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | Netflix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pictureFormat | 4K (Ultra HD) ⓘ |
| portrays |
Melissa Fumero as Eliza Walker
NERFINISHED
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Randall Park as Timmy Yoon ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Universal Television NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releasePlatform | Netflix streaming service ⓘ |
| setting |
Michigan
NERFINISHED
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last remaining Blockbuster video store ⓘ |
| stars |
Melissa Fumero
NERFINISHED
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Randall Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | canceled ⓘ |
| theme |
nostalgia for video rental stores
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struggles of a small business ⓘ |
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: Blockbuster Description of subject: Blockbuster is a 2022 Netflix workplace comedy series set in the last remaining Blockbuster video store, starring Randall Park and Melissa Fumero.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.