It Sticks Out Half a Mile
E749452
It Sticks Out Half a Mile is a British radio sitcom, spun off from Dad’s Army, about the postwar efforts to restore a seaside pier.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| It Sticks Out Half a Mile canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8666874 — 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: It Sticks Out Half a Mile Context triple: [Deryck Guyler, notableWork, It Sticks Out Half a Mile]
-
A.
The Stick
The Stick is the longtime nickname of Candlestick Park, the former outdoor sports stadium in San Francisco that famously hosted the San Francisco Giants and 49ers.
-
B.
Make Way
Make Way is a 1961 folk music album by The Kingston Trio that showcases the group’s signature harmonies and helped solidify their popularity during the American folk revival.
-
C.
Miles of Aisles
Miles of Aisles is a live double album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, capturing concert performances from her 1974 tour with the L.A. Express.
-
D.
The Wandering Rocks
"The Wandering Rocks" is a chapter in James Joyce's novel Ulysses that interweaves numerous brief episodes around Dublin to create a fragmented, mosaic-like portrait of the city and its inhabitants.
-
E.
The Way Ahead
The Way Ahead is a 1944 British World War II drama film that follows a group of civilian recruits as they transform into a cohesive army platoon.
- 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: It Sticks Out Half a Mile Target entity description: It Sticks Out Half a Mile is a British radio sitcom, spun off from Dad’s Army, about the postwar efforts to restore a seaside pier.
-
A.
The Stick
The Stick is the longtime nickname of Candlestick Park, the former outdoor sports stadium in San Francisco that famously hosted the San Francisco Giants and 49ers.
-
B.
Make Way
Make Way is a 1961 folk music album by The Kingston Trio that showcases the group’s signature harmonies and helped solidify their popularity during the American folk revival.
-
C.
Miles of Aisles
Miles of Aisles is a live double album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, capturing concert performances from her 1974 tour with the L.A. Express.
-
D.
The Wandering Rocks
"The Wandering Rocks" is a chapter in James Joyce's novel Ulysses that interweaves numerous brief episodes around Dublin to create a fragmented, mosaic-like portrait of the city and its inhabitants.
-
E.
The Way Ahead
The Way Ahead is a 1944 British World War II drama film that follows a group of civilian recruits as they transform into a cohesive army platoon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British radio sitcom
ⓘ
radio programme ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Dad's Army
ⓘ
linked to:
Dad's Army (TV series)
|
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| depicts |
British seaside town
ⓘ
postwar reconstruction ⓘ |
| follows | events after Dad's Army ⓘ |
| format | radio comedy ⓘ |
| genre | sitcom ⓘ |
| hasCharacter | former Home Guard member ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
comedy
ⓘ
situation comedy ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| isSpinOffOf |
Dad's Army
ⓘ
linked to:
Dad's Army (TV series)
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject | postwar efforts to restore a seaside pier ⓘ |
| medium | radio ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | restoration of a seaside pier ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | BBC Radio ⓘ |
| producer | BBC ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Dad's Army
ⓘ
linked to:
Dad's Army (TV series)
|
| setting | post-Second World War Britain ⓘ |
| workType | audio drama ⓘ |
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: It Sticks Out Half a Mile Description of subject: It Sticks Out Half a Mile is a British radio sitcom, spun off from Dad’s Army, about the postwar efforts to restore a seaside pier.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.