227
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227 is an American sitcom that aired in the 1980s and early 1990s, focusing on the lives of residents in a Washington, D.C. apartment building and starring Marla Gibbs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 227 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6540403 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: 227 Context triple: [Marla Gibbs, televisionSeries, 227]
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A.
24
24 is an American action-thriller television series starring Kiefer Sutherland as counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer, known for its real-time format where each season covers 24 hours in his life.
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B.
25
25 is Adele’s third studio album, a critically acclaimed and commercially successful record known for its soulful ballads and the hit single "Hello."
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C.
112
112 is an American R&B quartet best known for their smooth harmonies and hits like "Peaches & Cream" and "Cupid," and for their association with Bad Boy Records in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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D.
21
21 is Adele’s critically acclaimed, Grammy-winning sophomore album known for its soulful exploration of heartbreak and emotional resilience.
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E.
2/7
2/7 is a battalion-sized infantry unit of the United States Marine Corps known for its combat deployments and service in major conflicts.
- 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: 227 Target entity description: 227 is an American sitcom that aired in the 1980s and early 1990s, focusing on the lives of residents in a Washington, D.C. apartment building and starring Marla Gibbs.
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A.
24
24 is an American action-thriller television series starring Kiefer Sutherland as counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer, known for its real-time format where each season covers 24 hours in his life.
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B.
25
25 is Adele’s third studio album, a critically acclaimed and commercially successful record known for its soulful ballads and the hit single "Hello."
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C.
112
112 is an American R&B quartet best known for their smooth harmonies and hits like "Peaches & Cream" and "Cupid," and for their association with Bad Boy Records in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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D.
21
21 is Adele’s critically acclaimed, Grammy-winning sophomore album known for its soulful exploration of heartbreak and emotional resilience.
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E.
2/7
2/7 is a battalion-sized infantry unit of the United States Marine Corps known for its combat deployments and service in major conflicts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | American television sitcom ⓘ |
| airedOnDayOfWeek | Saturday ⓘ |
| audioFormat | stereo ⓘ |
| basedOn | play "227" by Christine Houston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Brenda Jenkins
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lester Jenkins NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Jenkins NERFINISHED ⓘ Pearl Shay NERFINISHED ⓘ Rose Holloway NERFINISHED ⓘ Sandra Clark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator |
Bill Boulware
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
C.J. Banks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 1990 ⓘ |
| executiveProducer |
Ed. Weinberger
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marla Gibbs NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael G. Moye NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuredPerformerInTheme | Marla Gibbs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1985-09-14 ⓘ |
| genre | sitcom ⓘ |
| hasTheme | opening theme song "227" ⓘ |
| lastAired | 1990-05-06 ⓘ |
| leadActor | Marla Gibbs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadCharacter | Mary Jenkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locationOfApartmentBuilding | fictional 227 Lexington Place, Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| mainSetting | apartment building ⓘ |
| networkType | broadcast television ⓘ |
| notableFor |
portrayal of African-American middle-class family life
ⓘ
strong ensemble cast of African-American actors ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 116 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 5 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | NBC ⓘ |
| originalRunPeriod |
early 1990s
ⓘ
late 1980s ⓘ |
| pictureFormat |
NTSC color television standard
ⓘ
surface form:
NTSC
|
| productionCompany |
EGP Productions
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
NBC Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInLocation | Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spinOffFrom | play "227" ⓘ |
| starring |
Alaina Reed Hall
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Curtis Baldwin NERFINISHED ⓘ Hal Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ Helen Martin NERFINISHED ⓘ Jackée Harry NERFINISHED ⓘ Kia Goodwin NERFINISHED ⓘ Marla Gibbs NERFINISHED ⓘ Regina King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 1985 ⓘ |
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: 227 Description of subject: 227 is an American sitcom that aired in the 1980s and early 1990s, focusing on the lives of residents in a Washington, D.C. apartment building and starring Marla Gibbs.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.