The Word
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The Word was a controversial early-1990s British late-night television show on Channel 4 that mixed music performances, celebrity interviews, and provocative stunts aimed at a youth audience.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Word canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7966631 — 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 Word Context triple: [Paul Morley, televisionShow, The Word]
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A.
The Word
"The Word" is a soulful, gospel-influenced song by the Beatles from their 1965 album Rubber Soul, notable for its early exploration of love as a universal, almost spiritual message.
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B.
The Words
The Words is Jean-Paul Sartre’s autobiographical work in which he reflects on his childhood and the development of his literary and philosophical identity.
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C.
The Words
The Words is a 2012 drama film about a struggling writer who achieves fame by passing off another man's manuscript as his own, exploring themes of authorship, guilt, and moral consequence.
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D.
Jesus and the Word
"Jesus and the Word" is a seminal theological work by Rudolf Bultmann that explores the message and significance of Jesus within the framework of New Testament faith and existential interpretation.
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E.
Parola
Parola is a small town in Maharashtra, India, known for its historical fort and location within the Jalgaon district.
- 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 Word Target entity description: The Word was a controversial early-1990s British late-night television show on Channel 4 that mixed music performances, celebrity interviews, and provocative stunts aimed at a youth audience.
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A.
The Word
"The Word" is a soulful, gospel-influenced song by the Beatles from their 1965 album Rubber Soul, notable for its early exploration of love as a universal, almost spiritual message.
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B.
The Words
The Words is Jean-Paul Sartre’s autobiographical work in which he reflects on his childhood and the development of his literary and philosophical identity.
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C.
The Words
The Words is a 2012 drama film about a struggling writer who achieves fame by passing off another man's manuscript as his own, exploring themes of authorship, guilt, and moral consequence.
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D.
Jesus and the Word
"Jesus and the Word" is a seminal theological work by Rudolf Bultmann that explores the message and significance of Jesus within the framework of New Testament faith and existential interpretation.
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E.
Parola
Parola is a small town in Maharashtra, India, known for its historical fort and location within the Jalgaon district.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | television programme ⓘ |
| associatedWithChannel | Channel 4 youth programming ⓘ |
| broadcastFormat | live studio show ⓘ |
| broadcastOn | Channel 4 ⓘ |
| broadcastTimeSlot | late night ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| era | 1990s British television ⓘ |
| firstAiredOnChannel | Channel 4 ⓘ |
| format | late-night television show ⓘ |
| genre |
music television
ⓘ
talk show ⓘ variety show ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
celebrity interviews
ⓘ
music performances ⓘ provocative stunts ⓘ |
| intendedEffect | shock value ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic | controversial content ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | Channel 4 ⓘ |
| originalReleasePeriod | early 1990s ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Planet 24 ⓘ |
| productionLocation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
celebrity culture
ⓘ
popular music ⓘ youth culture ⓘ |
| targetAudience | youth audience ⓘ |
| tone |
irreverent
ⓘ
provocative ⓘ |
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 Word Description of subject: The Word was a controversial early-1990s British late-night television show on Channel 4 that mixed music performances, celebrity interviews, and provocative stunts aimed at a youth audience.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.