The Prisoner
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British television series
psychological thriller television series
science fiction television series
television series
The Prisoner is a 1960s British psychological thriller and science-fiction television series, created by and starring Patrick McGoohan, about a former secret agent trapped in a mysterious coastal village where his captors seek to break his will and uncover his secrets.
All labels observed (8)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4117784 — 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 Prisoner Context triple: [Patrick McGoohan, notableWork, The Prisoner]
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A Prisoner
"A Prisoner" is a section of Peter Kropotkin’s autobiographical work "Memoirs of a Revolutionist," recounting his experiences of arrest, confinement, and political persecution.
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Prisoner
"Prisoner" is a dance-pop and R&B song by Mariah Carey from her 1990 self-titled debut album, showcasing her early blend of pop sensibilities with hip-hop influences.
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C.
The Ipcress File
The Ipcress File is a 1965 British Cold War spy film, based on Len Deighton’s novel, that stars Michael Caine as the bespectacled intelligence agent Harry Palmer.
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Danger Man
Danger Man is a 1960s British espionage television series starring Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake.
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The Wrong Mans
The Wrong Mans is a British comedy-thriller television series that blends action, suspense, and farce as two ordinary office workers become entangled in a dangerous criminal conspiracy.
- 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 Prisoner Target entity description: The Prisoner is a 1960s British psychological thriller and science-fiction television series, created by and starring Patrick McGoohan, about a former secret agent trapped in a mysterious coastal village where his captors seek to break his will and uncover his secrets.
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A.
A Prisoner
"A Prisoner" is a section of Peter Kropotkin’s autobiographical work "Memoirs of a Revolutionist," recounting his experiences of arrest, confinement, and political persecution.
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B.
Prisoner
"Prisoner" is a dance-pop and R&B song by Mariah Carey from her 1990 self-titled debut album, showcasing her early blend of pop sensibilities with hip-hop influences.
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C.
The Ipcress File
The Ipcress File is a 1965 British Cold War spy film, based on Len Deighton’s novel, that stars Michael Caine as the bespectacled intelligence agent Harry Palmer.
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D.
Danger Man
Danger Man is a 1960s British espionage television series starring Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake.
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E.
The Wrong Mans
The Wrong Mans is a British comedy-thriller television series that blends action, suspense, and farce as two ordinary office workers become entangled in a dangerous criminal conspiracy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
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 Prisoner Description of subject: The Prisoner is a 1960s British psychological thriller and science-fiction television series, created by and starring Patrick McGoohan, about a former secret agent trapped in a mysterious coastal village where his captors seek to break his will and uncover his secrets.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time
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Number Six in The Prisoner
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Number Six in The Prisoner
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Number Six in The Prisoner
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Number Six in The Prisoner
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subject linked to:
Number Six in The Prisoner
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Number Six in The Prisoner
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Number Six in The Prisoner
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