Mr. Teabag
E84829
Mr. Teabag is a comically absurd civil servant portrayed by John Cleese in Monty Python’s “Ministry of Silly Walks” sketch, known for his exaggerated, nonsensical way of walking.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mr. Teabag canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T671450 — 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: Mr. Teabag Context triple: [Ministry of Silly Walks, featuresCharacter, Mr. Teabag]
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A.
Mr. Man
"Mr. Man" is a song by Alicia Keys from her debut studio album "Songs in A Minor."
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B.
Laffing Sal
Laffing Sal is a historic, animatronic laughing woman figure from early 20th-century amusement parks, now preserved as a popular attraction at San Francisco’s Musée Mécanique.
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C.
Charlie Bubbles
Charlie Bubbles is a 1967 British comedy-drama film, directed by and starring Albert Finney, noted for its portrayal of a disillusioned writer returning to his Northern England roots.
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D.
Blagg
Blagg is a variant form of the surname "Black," typically arising as an alternative spelling in English-speaking regions.
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E.
Monk
Monk is an American comedy-drama detective television series centered on the brilliant but obsessive-compulsive private investigator Adrian Monk.
- 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: Mr. Teabag Target entity description: Mr. Teabag is a comically absurd civil servant portrayed by John Cleese in Monty Python’s “Ministry of Silly Walks” sketch, known for his exaggerated, nonsensical way of walking.
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A.
Mr. Man
"Mr. Man" is a song by Alicia Keys from her debut studio album "Songs in A Minor."
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B.
Laffing Sal
Laffing Sal is a historic, animatronic laughing woman figure from early 20th-century amusement parks, now preserved as a popular attraction at San Francisco’s Musée Mécanique.
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C.
Charlie Bubbles
Charlie Bubbles is a 1967 British comedy-drama film, directed by and starring Albert Finney, noted for its portrayal of a disillusioned writer returning to his Northern England roots.
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D.
Blagg
Blagg is a variant form of the surname "Black," typically arising as an alternative spelling in English-speaking regions.
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E.
Monk
Monk is an American comedy-drama detective television series centered on the brilliant but obsessive-compulsive private investigator Adrian Monk.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedy character
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Ministry of Silly Walks
ⓘ
Monty Python's Flying Circus ⓘ
surface form:
Monty Python’s Flying Circus
|
| associatedWith |
Ministry of Silly Walks
ⓘ
surface form:
Ministry of Silly Walks sketch
Monty Python ⓘ
surface form:
Monty Python comedy troupe
|
| countryOfFictionalWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy |
John Cleese
ⓘ
Monty Python ⓘ |
| culturalImpact | iconic example of British surreal humor ⓘ |
| employer | Ministry of Silly Walks ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceInSeries |
Monty Python's Flying Circus
ⓘ
surface form:
Monty Python’s Flying Circus
|
| genre | sketch comedy ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
deadpan demeanor
ⓘ
formal manner of speaking ⓘ |
| humorStyle |
absurdist comedy
ⓘ
physical comedy ⓘ satire of bureaucracy ⓘ |
| inUniverseRole | official evaluating grant applications for silly walks ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
exaggerated silly walk
ⓘ
nonsensical way of walking ⓘ |
| occupation | civil servant ⓘ |
| partOf | Monty Python canon ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | John Cleese ⓘ |
| wears |
bowler hat
ⓘ
business suit ⓘ |
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: Mr. Teabag Description of subject: Mr. Teabag is a comically absurd civil servant portrayed by John Cleese in Monty Python’s “Ministry of Silly Walks” sketch, known for his exaggerated, nonsensical way of walking.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.