The Unfriend
E779102
The Unfriend is a darkly comic stage play by Mark Gatiss about a seemingly charming stranger whose visit turns increasingly sinister for a middle-class British couple.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Unfriend canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9112579 — 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: The Unfriend Context triple: [Mark Gatiss, theatreWork, The Unfriend]
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A.
An Interrupted Friendship
"An Interrupted Friendship" is a lesser-known literary work by Ethel Lilian Voynich, the Irish-born novelist best known for her revolutionary novel "The Gadfly."
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B.
No New Friends
"No New Friends" is a hip-hop single by DJ Khaled featuring Drake, Rick Ross, and Lil Wayne that emphasizes loyalty to one's existing circle over forming new relationships.
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C.
God Friended Me
God Friended Me is an American dramedy television series about an outspoken atheist who begins receiving mysterious friend suggestions from a social media account claiming to be God, leading him to intervene in strangers’ lives.
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D.
Nosedive
Nosedive is a Black Mirror episode that satirically explores a near-future society obsessed with social media ratings and the consequences of living for online approval.
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E.
The Mutual Disillusion
The Mutual Disillusion is an English title for Surah At-Taghabun, a chapter of the Qur’an that reflects on human loss and gain in the hereafter and the ultimate reality of faith and accountability.
- 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: The Unfriend Target entity description: The Unfriend is a darkly comic stage play by Mark Gatiss about a seemingly charming stranger whose visit turns increasingly sinister for a middle-class British couple.
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A.
An Interrupted Friendship
"An Interrupted Friendship" is a lesser-known literary work by Ethel Lilian Voynich, the Irish-born novelist best known for her revolutionary novel "The Gadfly."
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B.
No New Friends
"No New Friends" is a hip-hop single by DJ Khaled featuring Drake, Rick Ross, and Lil Wayne that emphasizes loyalty to one's existing circle over forming new relationships.
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C.
God Friended Me
God Friended Me is an American dramedy television series about an outspoken atheist who begins receiving mysterious friend suggestions from a social media account claiming to be God, leading him to intervene in strangers’ lives.
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D.
Nosedive
Nosedive is a Black Mirror episode that satirically explores a near-future society obsessed with social media ratings and the consequences of living for online approval.
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E.
The Mutual Disillusion
The Mutual Disillusion is an English title for Surah At-Taghabun, a chapter of the Qur’an that reflects on human loss and gain in the hereafter and the ultimate reality of faith and accountability.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dark comedy
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stage play ⓘ |
| author | Mark Gatiss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Mark Gatiss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dialogueStyle |
satirical
ⓘ
witty ⓘ |
| form | live performance ⓘ |
| genre | dark comedy ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
middle-class British husband
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middle-class British wife ⓘ mysterious stranger ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
danger beneath civility
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intrusion into domestic life ⓘ politeness and boundaries ⓘ social anxiety ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | adult theatre-goers ⓘ |
| medium | theatre ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
British middle-class manners
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escalating menace ⓘ social awkwardness ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure | single-plot domestic story ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| setting | contemporary Britain ⓘ |
| subject |
middle-class British couple
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seemingly charming stranger ⓘ sinister visit ⓘ |
| tone |
darkly comic
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sinister ⓘ |
| workOf | Mark Gatiss 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: The Unfriend Description of subject: The Unfriend is a darkly comic stage play by Mark Gatiss about a seemingly charming stranger whose visit turns increasingly sinister for a middle-class British couple.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.