Ironside
E120047
Ironside is an American television crime drama series centered on a paraplegic chief of detectives who solves cases from his wheelchair.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ironside canonical | 12 |
| Ironside (1967 TV film) | 2 |
| Ironside (TV series) | 2 |
| Ironside (1967 TV series) | 1 |
| Ironside (2013 TV series) | 1 |
| Ironside (TV theme) | 1 |
| Ironside (franchise) | 1 |
| Ironside (television series episodes) | 1 |
| Ironside (television series) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1033832 — 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: Ironside Context triple: [Lorraine Gary, workedOn, Ironside]
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A.
The Eagle
The Eagle is a 1925 silent adventure film starring Rudolph Valentino as a dashing Russian outlaw hero.
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B.
The Rudder
The Rudder is a foundational compendium of Eastern Orthodox canon law and church regulations, widely used as an authoritative guide for ecclesiastical discipline and practice.
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C.
Unternehmen Blau
Unternehmen Blau was the German Wehrmacht’s 1942 summer offensive on the Eastern Front aimed at capturing the Soviet Union’s southern oil fields and the city of Stalingrad.
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D.
The Captain
The Captain is the English translation of the Spanish name "El Capitan," famously associated with the iconic granite monolith in Yosemite National Park.
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E.
The Captain
The Captain is the famous nickname of Willis Reed, the Hall of Fame center and emotional leader of the New York Knicks dynasty of the early 1970s.
- 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: Ironside Target entity description: Ironside is an American television crime drama series centered on a paraplegic chief of detectives who solves cases from his wheelchair.
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A.
The Eagle
The Eagle is a 1925 silent adventure film starring Rudolph Valentino as a dashing Russian outlaw hero.
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B.
The Rudder
The Rudder is a foundational compendium of Eastern Orthodox canon law and church regulations, widely used as an authoritative guide for ecclesiastical discipline and practice.
-
C.
Unternehmen Blau
Unternehmen Blau was the German Wehrmacht’s 1942 summer offensive on the Eastern Front aimed at capturing the Soviet Union’s southern oil fields and the city of Stalingrad.
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D.
The Captain
The Captain is the English translation of the Spanish name "El Capitan," famously associated with the iconic granite monolith in Yosemite National Park.
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E.
The Captain
The Captain is the famous nickname of Willis Reed, the Hall of Fame center and emotional leader of the New York Knicks dynasty of the early 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime drama television series
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ television series ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| audioFormat | mono ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Ironside
ⓘ
Ironside (1967 TV film) ⓘ
linked to:
Ironside
|
| broadcastOn | network television ⓘ |
| characteristic | focus on a disabled lead detective ⓘ |
| composer | Quincy Jones ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Collier Young ⓘ |
| executiveProducer | Frank Price ⓘ |
| features | wheelchair-using detective ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
San Francisco
ⓘ
Universal Studios, California ⓘ
linked to:
Universal Studios Hollywood
|
| firstAiredOnChannel | NBC ⓘ |
| follows |
Ironside (1967 TV film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Ironside
|
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
police procedural ⓘ |
| hasReboot |
Ironside (2013 TV series)
ⓘ
linked to:
Ironside
|
| hasSpinOff | Amy Prentiss ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Robert T. Ironside ⓘ |
| notableFor | early portrayal of a lead character with a disability on American television ⓘ |
| notableWork | theme music by Quincy Jones ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 199 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 8 ⓘ |
| occupation | chief of detectives ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originallyBroadcastIn | prime time ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | NBC ⓘ |
| originalReleaseEnd | 1975-01-16 ⓘ |
| originalReleaseStart | 1967-09-14 ⓘ |
| pictureFormat | color ⓘ |
| portrays | police investigations in San Francisco ⓘ |
| positionHeld | San Francisco Police Department chief of detectives ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Universal Television ⓘ |
| setting | San Francisco ⓘ |
| significantCharacteristic | paraplegic ⓘ |
| starring |
Barbara Anderson
ⓘ
Don Galloway ⓘ Don Mitchell ⓘ Elizabeth Baur ⓘ Gene Lyons ⓘ Raymond Burr ⓘ |
| uses | wheelchair ⓘ |
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: Ironside Description of subject: Ironside is an American television crime drama series centered on a paraplegic chief of detectives who solves cases from his wheelchair.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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