The Americans
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The Americans is a critically acclaimed FX television drama series about two Soviet KGB officers posing as a married American couple in suburban Washington, D.C. during the Cold War.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Americans canonical | 68 |
| The Americans (TV series) | 13 |
| The Americans (television series) | 2 |
| The Americans (episodes) | 1 |
| The Americans episode "The Walk In" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3287595 — 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 Americans Context triple: [FX, originalProgramming, The Americans]
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A.
Bridge of Spies
Bridge of Spies is a 2015 historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, in which Tom Hanks stars as a lawyer negotiating a Cold War spy exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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B.
The Patriot
The Patriot is the costumed mascot representing George Mason University's athletic teams and school spirit.
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C.
The Patriot
The Patriot is a 2000 American historical war film set during the American Revolutionary War, starring Mel Gibson as a reluctant militia leader who fights against British forces after his family is threatened.
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D.
The Monuments Men
The Monuments Men is a 2014 World War II drama film directed by and starring George Clooney, about a group of Allied art experts tasked with rescuing cultural treasures from Nazi theft and destruction.
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E.
Mank
Mank is a 2020 biographical drama film directed by David Fincher that chronicles screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz’s creation of the screenplay for Citizen Kane.
- 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 Americans Target entity description: The Americans is a critically acclaimed FX television drama series about two Soviet KGB officers posing as a married American couple in suburban Washington, D.C. during the Cold War.
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A.
Bridge of Spies
Bridge of Spies is a 2015 historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, in which Tom Hanks stars as a lawyer negotiating a Cold War spy exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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B.
The Patriot
The Patriot is the costumed mascot representing George Mason University's athletic teams and school spirit.
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C.
The Patriot
The Patriot is a 2000 American historical war film set during the American Revolutionary War, starring Mel Gibson as a reluctant militia leader who fights against British forces after his family is threatened.
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D.
The Monuments Men
The Monuments Men is a 2014 World War II drama film directed by and starring George Clooney, about a group of Allied art experts tasked with rescuing cultural treasures from Nazi theft and destruction.
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E.
Mank
Mank is a 2020 biographical drama film directed by David Fincher that chronicles screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz’s creation of the screenplay for Citizen Kane.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (67)
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 Americans Description of subject: The Americans is a critically acclaimed FX television drama series about two Soviet KGB officers posing as a married American couple in suburban Washington, D.C. during the Cold War.
Referenced by (85)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Langella
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Philip Jennings in The Americans
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