The Secret Policeman’s Ball
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The Secret Policeman’s Ball is a famed British comedy and music benefit show series, originally staged for Amnesty International, that brought together leading comedians and musicians in the late 1970s and 1980s.
All labels observed (10)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2698313 — 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 Secret Policeman’s Ball Context triple: [Peter Cook, notableWork, The Secret Policeman’s Ball]
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A.
I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue
I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue is a long-running BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show known for its absurd word games, improvisation, and deadpan, innuendo-laden humour.
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B.
Monty Python Live (Mostly)
Monty Python Live (Mostly) is a 2014 stage reunion show by the surviving members of the British comedy group Monty Python, featuring live performances of their classic sketches and new material at The O2 in London.
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C.
24 Hour Party People
24 Hour Party People is a 2002 British comedy-drama film that chronicles the rise of Manchester’s music scene from the late 1970s to early 1990s through the experiences of Factory Records and its co-founder Tony Wilson.
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D.
Live at the Apollo
Live at the Apollo is a landmark 1963 live soul album by James Brown, celebrated for its electrifying performance and major influence on live recording in popular music.
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E.
Spitting Image
Spitting Image is a British satirical television show famous for its caricatured puppet portrayals of politicians and celebrities.
- 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 Secret Policeman’s Ball Target entity description: The Secret Policeman’s Ball is a famed British comedy and music benefit show series, originally staged for Amnesty International, that brought together leading comedians and musicians in the late 1970s and 1980s.
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A.
I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue
I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue is a long-running BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show known for its absurd word games, improvisation, and deadpan, innuendo-laden humour.
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B.
Monty Python Live (Mostly)
Monty Python Live (Mostly) is a 2014 stage reunion show by the surviving members of the British comedy group Monty Python, featuring live performances of their classic sketches and new material at The O2 in London.
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C.
24 Hour Party People
24 Hour Party People is a 2002 British comedy-drama film that chronicles the rise of Manchester’s music scene from the late 1970s to early 1990s through the experiences of Factory Records and its co-founder Tony Wilson.
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D.
Live at the Apollo
Live at the Apollo is a landmark 1963 live soul album by James Brown, celebrated for its electrifying performance and major influence on live recording in popular music.
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E.
Spitting Image
Spitting Image is a British satirical television show famous for its caricatured puppet portrayals of politicians and celebrities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
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 Secret Policeman’s Ball Description of subject: The Secret Policeman’s Ball is a famed British comedy and music benefit show series, originally staged for Amnesty International, that brought together leading comedians and musicians in the late 1970s and 1980s.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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