The Parking Garage
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"The Parking Garage" is a famous Seinfeld episode in which the four main characters wander a multi-level parking structure, unable to find their car, turning a mundane situation into escalating absurdity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Parking Garage canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3116155 — 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 Parking Garage Context triple: [Seinfeld, notableEpisode, The Parking Garage]
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A.
Parkar
Parkar is a less common spelling variant of the surname Parker, which is of English origin.
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B.
Spring Hill Station
Spring Hill Station is a Washington Metro Silver Line station serving the Tysons area of Fairfax County, Virginia.
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C.
Monroe Street Garage
Monroe Street Garage is a multi-level parking facility in downtown Chicago that serves visitors to nearby cultural attractions such as the Art Institute of Chicago and Millennium Park.
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D.
Dark Star Park
Dark Star Park is a public art installation and urban park in Rosslyn, Arlington, Virginia, known for its sculptural forms and annual shadow alignment that commemorates the day the land became part of the county.
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E.
Stakeout
"Stakeout" is a 1987 American buddy-cop comedy thriller film starring Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez as detectives assigned to surveil an escaped convict’s ex-girlfriend.
- 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 Parking Garage Target entity description: "The Parking Garage" is a famous Seinfeld episode in which the four main characters wander a multi-level parking structure, unable to find their car, turning a mundane situation into escalating absurdity.
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A.
Parkar
Parkar is a less common spelling variant of the surname Parker, which is of English origin.
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B.
Spring Hill Station
Spring Hill Station is a Washington Metro Silver Line station serving the Tysons area of Fairfax County, Virginia.
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C.
Monroe Street Garage
Monroe Street Garage is a multi-level parking facility in downtown Chicago that serves visitors to nearby cultural attractions such as the Art Institute of Chicago and Millennium Park.
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D.
Dark Star Park
Dark Star Park is a public art installation and urban park in Rosslyn, Arlington, Virginia, known for its sculptural forms and annual shadow alignment that commemorates the day the land became part of the county.
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E.
Stakeout
"Stakeout" is a 1987 American buddy-cop comedy thriller film starring Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez as detectives assigned to surveil an escaped convict’s ex-girlfriend.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Seinfeld episode
ⓘ
television episode ⓘ |
| basedOn | everyday experience of losing a car in a parking lot ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| criticalReception | widely praised for turning a mundane situation into escalating absurdity ⓘ |
| director | Tom Cherones ⓘ |
| episodeNumberInSeason | 6 ⓘ |
| featuresActor |
Jason Alexander
ⓘ
Jerry Seinfeld ⓘ Julia Louis-Dreyfus ⓘ Michael Richards ⓘ |
| featuresProp | air conditioner Jerry is carrying ⓘ |
| featuresSituation | difficulty remembering where the car is parked ⓘ |
| firstAiredInDecade | 1990s ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Cafe ⓘ |
| follows | The Library ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
sitcom ⓘ |
| hasCharacterAction |
characters become increasingly desperate
ⓘ
characters repeatedly fail to locate their parked car ⓘ characters wander multiple levels of a parking structure ⓘ |
| hasCultStatus | true ⓘ |
| hasEnsembleCast | true ⓘ |
| hasRunningGag |
characters repeatedly think they recognize the wrong area of the garage
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characters split up and reunite without finding the car ⓘ |
| isBottleEpisode | true ⓘ |
| locationType | indoor parking structure ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Cosmo Kramer
ⓘ
Elaine Benes ⓘ George Costanza ⓘ Jerry Seinfeld ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | search for a lost car in a parking garage ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
ensemble interaction among four leads
ⓘ
real-time style storytelling ⓘ single primary location ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | NBC ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Seinfeld ⓘ |
| productionCode | 306 ⓘ |
| seasonNumber | 3 ⓘ |
| setting | multi-level parking garage ⓘ |
| structure | continuous time narrative ⓘ |
| theme |
absurdity of mundane situations
ⓘ
frustration and anxiety ⓘ urban alienation ⓘ |
| title | The Parking Garage ⓘ |
| writer |
Jerry Seinfeld
ⓘ
Larry David ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Parking Garage Description of subject: "The Parking Garage" is a famous Seinfeld episode in which the four main characters wander a multi-level parking structure, unable to find their car, turning a mundane situation into escalating absurdity.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.