Extras (TV series)
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Extras is a British television sitcom created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant that follows the often humiliating experiences of background actors trying to break into show business.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Extras | 5 |
| Extras (TV series) canonical | 3 |
| Extras series 1 | 2 |
| Extras (series 1) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1655102 — 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: Extras (TV series) Context triple: [Stephen Merchant, coCreated, Extras (TV series)]
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A.
Outside Broadcast
Outside Broadcast was a European leg of U2’s Zoo TV Tour characterized by large outdoor stadium shows and an expanded, multimedia-heavy stage production.
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B.
Starsky & Hutch
Starsky & Hutch is a 2004 action-comedy film adaptation of the 1970s TV series, starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson as mismatched detectives in a stylized, humorous take on buddy-cop crime fighting.
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C.
New Tricks
New Tricks is a British television crime drama series about a team of retired police officers brought back to solve cold cases.
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D.
Entourage
Entourage is a popular American comedy-drama television series that follows the Hollywood rise of young actor Vincent Chase and his close-knit group of friends.
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E.
Ted Lasso
Ted Lasso is a comedy television series about an optimistic American football coach who is hired to manage a struggling English soccer team, known for its heartfelt humor and uplifting tone.
- 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: Extras (TV series) Target entity description: Extras is a British television sitcom created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant that follows the often humiliating experiences of background actors trying to break into show business.
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A.
Outside Broadcast
Outside Broadcast was a European leg of U2’s Zoo TV Tour characterized by large outdoor stadium shows and an expanded, multimedia-heavy stage production.
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B.
Starsky & Hutch
Starsky & Hutch is a 2004 action-comedy film adaptation of the 1970s TV series, starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson as mismatched detectives in a stylized, humorous take on buddy-cop crime fighting.
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C.
New Tricks
New Tricks is a British television crime drama series about a team of retired police officers brought back to solve cold cases.
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D.
Entourage
Entourage is a popular American comedy-drama television series that follows the Hollywood rise of young actor Vincent Chase and his close-knit group of friends.
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E.
Ted Lasso
Ted Lasso is a comedy television series about an optimistic American football coach who is hired to manage a struggling English soccer team, known for its heartfelt humor and uplifting tone.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: Extras (TV series) Description of subject: Extras is a British television sitcom created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant that follows the often humiliating experiences of background actors trying to break into show business.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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