Rising Damp
E291178
Rising Damp is a classic 1970s British sitcom set in a seedy boarding house, known for its sharp wit, social satire, and memorable ensemble cast.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rising Damp canonical | 15 |
| Rising Damp (TV series) | 1 |
| Rising Damp (film adaptation) | 1 |
| Rising Damp (film) | 1 |
| Rising Damp (stage play) | 1 |
| Rising Damp (television series) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2689329 — 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: Rising Damp Context triple: [Frances de la Tour, notableWork, Rising Damp]
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A.
Down House
Down House is the former home of Charles Darwin in Kent, England, now preserved as a museum dedicated to his life and work.
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B.
The Chimney-Corner
"The Chimney-Corner" is a collection of domestic essays and sketches by Harriet Beecher Stowe that reflect on family life, morality, and social issues in 19th-century America.
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C.
The Black Windmill
The Black Windmill is a 1974 British spy thriller film directed by Don Siegel and starring Michael Caine as an MI6 agent whose son is kidnapped by arms dealers.
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D.
The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw is a classic 1898 gothic novella by Henry James that tells the ambiguous and psychologically tense story of a governess who believes the children in her care are haunted by malevolent spirits.
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E.
The Woman in Black
The Woman in Black is a gothic horror story, best known as a novel, stage play, and 2012 film adaptation about a vengeful ghost haunting a remote English village.
- 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: Rising Damp Target entity description: Rising Damp is a classic 1970s British sitcom set in a seedy boarding house, known for its sharp wit, social satire, and memorable ensemble cast.
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A.
Down House
Down House is the former home of Charles Darwin in Kent, England, now preserved as a museum dedicated to his life and work.
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B.
The Chimney-Corner
"The Chimney-Corner" is a collection of domestic essays and sketches by Harriet Beecher Stowe that reflect on family life, morality, and social issues in 19th-century America.
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C.
The Black Windmill
The Black Windmill is a 1974 British spy thriller film directed by Don Siegel and starring Michael Caine as an MI6 agent whose son is kidnapped by arms dealers.
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D.
The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw is a classic 1898 gothic novella by Henry James that tells the ambiguous and psychologically tense story of a governess who believes the children in her care are haunted by malevolent spirits.
-
E.
The Woman in Black
The Woman in Black is a gothic horror story, best known as a novel, stage play, and 2012 film adaptation about a vengeful ghost haunting a remote English village.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British television sitcom
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feature film ⓘ fictional character ⓘ fictional character ⓘ fictional character ⓘ fictional character ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ stage play ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Rising Damp
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The Banana Box ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Eric Chappell ⓘ |
| finalAired | 1978 ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1974 ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Rising Damp (film)
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linked to:
Rising Damp
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| genre |
comedy
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sitcom ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
class differences
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loneliness ⓘ race relations ⓘ sexual frustration ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Alan Moore
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Philip Smith ⓘ Rupert Rigsby ⓘ Ruth Jones ⓘ |
| notableFor |
ensemble cast
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sharp wit ⓘ social satire ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 28 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeries | 4 ⓘ |
| occupation | landlord ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | ITV ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Don Warrington
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Frances de la Tour ⓘ Leonard Rossiter ⓘ Richard Beckinsale ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Yorkshire Television ⓘ |
| settingCountry | England ⓘ |
| settingLocation | seedy boarding house ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | 1970s ⓘ |
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: Rising Damp Description of subject: Rising Damp is a classic 1970s British sitcom set in a seedy boarding house, known for its sharp wit, social satire, and memorable ensemble cast.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
de la Tour
subject linked to:
de la Tour
linked to: Rising Damp
subject linked to:
de la Tour
linked to: Rising Damp
subject linked to:
de la Tour
linked to: Rising Damp
linked to: Rising Damp
subject linked to:
Rising Damp
subject linked to:
Charles de la Tour
linked to: Rising Damp