Vicious
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Vicious is a British sitcom starring Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen as a long-term gay couple navigating their acerbic yet affectionate relationship in London.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T689565 — 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: Vicious Context triple: [Derek Jacobi, notableWork, Vicious]
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Revenge
Revenge was an English galleon of the Elizabethan navy, famed for its heroic last stand against a vastly superior Spanish fleet in 1591 under Sir Richard Grenville.
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Revenge
Revenge is an American television drama series centered on a young woman who infiltrates an affluent Hamptons community to exact vengeance on those who destroyed her family.
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Blacker
Blacker is a comparative form of the color term "black," indicating a greater degree of darkness or blackness.
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Iconoclastic Fury
Iconoclastic Fury was a wave of Protestant mob attacks on Catholic churches and religious images in the Low Countries in 1566, which helped ignite the broader conflict of the Eighty Years' War.
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No Malice
No Malice is an American rapper best known as one half of the hip hop duo Clipse, alongside his brother Pusha T.
- 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: Vicious Target entity description: Vicious is a British sitcom starring Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen as a long-term gay couple navigating their acerbic yet affectionate relationship in London.
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A.
Revenge
Revenge was an English galleon of the Elizabethan navy, famed for its heroic last stand against a vastly superior Spanish fleet in 1591 under Sir Richard Grenville.
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B.
Revenge
Revenge is an American television drama series centered on a young woman who infiltrates an affluent Hamptons community to exact vengeance on those who destroyed her family.
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C.
Blacker
Blacker is a comparative form of the color term "black," indicating a greater degree of darkness or blackness.
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D.
Iconoclastic Fury
Iconoclastic Fury was a wave of Protestant mob attacks on Catholic churches and religious images in the Low Countries in 1566, which helped ignite the broader conflict of the Eighty Years' War.
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E.
No Malice
No Malice is an American rapper best known as one half of the hip hop duo Clipse, alongside his brother Pusha T.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Vicious Description of subject: Vicious is a British sitcom starring Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen as a long-term gay couple navigating their acerbic yet affectionate relationship in London.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Frances de la Tour