Blockbusters
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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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Blockbusters canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1521714 — 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: Blockbusters Context triple: [Central Independent Television, notableProgram, Blockbusters]
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A.
Home Box Office
Home Box Office is a premium American cable and streaming television network best known for its high-quality original series, films, and specials.
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B.
Royal Film Performance
The Royal Film Performance is an annual British gala event attended by members of the royal family to showcase the world premiere of a major film in support of industry-related charities.
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C.
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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D.
MonsterVerse films
MonsterVerse films are a series of interconnected American monster movies featuring iconic kaiju like Godzilla and King Kong, produced as a shared cinematic universe.
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E.
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.
- 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: Blockbusters Target entity description: 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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A.
Home Box Office
Home Box Office is a premium American cable and streaming television network best known for its high-quality original series, films, and specials.
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B.
Royal Film Performance
The Royal Film Performance is an annual British gala event attended by members of the royal family to showcase the world premiere of a major film in support of industry-related charities.
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C.
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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D.
MonsterVerse films
MonsterVerse films are a series of interconnected American monster movies featuring iconic kaiju like Godzilla and King Kong, produced as a shared cinematic universe.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | British television quiz show ⓘ |
| alsoAiredInDecade | 1990s ⓘ |
| awardedPrizeType |
cash prizes
ⓘ
non-cash prizes ⓘ |
| basedOn | American game show format "Blockbusters" ⓘ |
| boardCellLabel | letters ⓘ |
| boardConnectionGoal | one side of the board to the other ⓘ |
| broadcastOn |
ITV network
ⓘ
linked to:
ITV
|
| contestantType | school students ⓘ |
| countryOfBroadcast | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| culturalImpact | became a popular British student quiz show ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Birmingham ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1983 ⓘ |
| firstBroadcastOnChannel | Central Independent Television ⓘ |
| format | television series ⓘ |
| gameMechanic |
contestants answer general knowledge questions
ⓘ
contestants complete a path across a hexagonal board ⓘ |
| genre |
game show
ⓘ
quiz show ⓘ |
| hasFanBase | British television viewers ⓘ |
| hasGameBoardShape | hexagonal grid ⓘ |
| hasQuestionFormat |
bonus questions
ⓘ
buzz-in questions ⓘ |
| hasThemeMusic | "Quiz Wizard" ⓘ |
| host | Bob Holness ⓘ |
| mediaType | television programme ⓘ |
| notableCatchphrase | Can I have a P please, Bob? ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originallyAiredInDecade | 1980s ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | ITV ⓘ |
| originalRunEnd | 1993 ⓘ |
| originalRunStart | 29 August 1983 ⓘ |
| presenter | Bob Holness ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Central Independent Television ⓘ |
| questionClueType | answers begin with chosen letter ⓘ |
| questionType | general knowledge ⓘ |
| revivalHost |
Dara Ó Briain
ⓘ
Liza Tarbuck ⓘ Michael Aspel ⓘ Simon Mayo ⓘ |
| setIn | television studio ⓘ |
| spinOffOrRevival |
Challenge revival
ⓘ
Comedy Central revival ⓘ Sky One revival ⓘ |
| targetAudience | sixth-form students ⓘ |
| teamStructure | one solo player vs a pair of players ⓘ |
| themeMusicComposer | Ed Welch ⓘ |
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: Blockbusters Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.