Crashing
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Crashing is a semi-autobiographical comedy television series created by and starring Pete Holmes that follows an aspiring stand-up comedian rebuilding his life after his marriage falls apart.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Crashing canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8037933 — 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: Crashing Context triple: [Michael Rotenberg, notableWork, Crashing]
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A.
Crashing
Crashing is a British comedy-drama television series created by and starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge, following a group of twenty-somethings living as property guardians in a disused hospital.
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B.
Crashing Towers
"Crashing Towers" is an episode title from the 1939 science fiction movie serial *The Phantom Creeps*, starring Bela Lugosi as a mad scientist.
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C.
Crash
Crash is a controversial 1973 novel by J. G. Ballard that explores the eroticization of car crashes and the dark intersections of technology, violence, and desire.
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D.
Crash
Crash is a 1986 synth-pop album by British band The Human League, best known for featuring the hit single "Human" and marking a more polished, R&B-influenced sound for the group.
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E.
Crash
Crash is a 2004 ensemble drama film exploring racial and social tensions in Los Angeles through intersecting storylines.
- 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: Crashing Target entity description: Crashing is a semi-autobiographical comedy television series created by and starring Pete Holmes that follows an aspiring stand-up comedian rebuilding his life after his marriage falls apart.
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A.
Crashing
Crashing is a British comedy-drama television series created by and starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge, following a group of twenty-somethings living as property guardians in a disused hospital.
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B.
Crashing Towers
"Crashing Towers" is an episode title from the 1939 science fiction movie serial *The Phantom Creeps*, starring Bela Lugosi as a mad scientist.
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C.
Crash
Crash is a controversial 1973 novel by J. G. Ballard that explores the eroticization of car crashes and the dark intersections of technology, violence, and desire.
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D.
Crash
Crash is a 1986 synth-pop album by British band The Human League, best known for featuring the hit single "Human" and marking a more polished, R&B-influenced sound for the group.
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E.
Crash
Crash is a 2004 ensemble drama film exploring racial and social tensions in Los Angeles through intersecting storylines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | television series ⓘ |
| basedOn | life of Pete Holmes ⓘ |
| centralConflict |
career uncertainty
ⓘ
marriage breakdown ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Pete Holmes ⓘ |
| featuresElement |
guest appearances by real comedians
ⓘ
live stand-up performances ⓘ |
| follows | an aspiring stand-up comedian ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
semi-autobiographical television series ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
divorce
ⓘ
personal reinvention ⓘ stand-up comedy ⓘ struggling artist ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Pete ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | rebuilding life after marriage falls apart ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | stand-up comedian ⓘ |
| semiAutobiographicalSubject | Pete Holmes ⓘ |
| setting | New York City stand-up comedy scene ⓘ |
| starring | Pete Holmes ⓘ |
| tone |
comedic
ⓘ
introspective ⓘ |
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: Crashing Description of subject: Crashing is a semi-autobiographical comedy television series created by and starring Pete Holmes that follows an aspiring stand-up comedian rebuilding his life after his marriage falls apart.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.