Secret Agent
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Secret Agent is a 1960s British television spy series starring Patrick McGoohan as an undercover operative navigating Cold War-era espionage and moral dilemmas.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Secret Agent canonical | 3 |
| Secret Agent (TV series) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4117786 — 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: Secret Agent Context triple: [Patrick McGoohan, notableWork, Secret Agent]
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A.
The Spy
The Spy is a film featuring Russian actress Svetlana Khodchenkova in a prominent role within a Cold War espionage narrative.
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B.
The Spy
"The Spy" is an 1821 historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper set during the American Revolutionary War, often regarded as one of the earliest major works of American fiction.
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C.
Spies
Spies is a German-origin surname most notably associated with August Spies, a prominent 19th-century anarchist and labor activist involved in the Haymarket affair.
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D.
Spies
Spies is a 1928 German silent espionage thriller film directed by Fritz Lang, renowned for its intricate plotting, innovative visual style, and influence on the spy genre.
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E.
Spies
Spies is a novel by Michael Frayn that explores childhood memory, secrecy, and the blurred line between imagination and reality in wartime England.
- 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: Secret Agent Target entity description: Secret Agent is a 1960s British television spy series starring Patrick McGoohan as an undercover operative navigating Cold War-era espionage and moral dilemmas.
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A.
The Spy
The Spy is a film featuring Russian actress Svetlana Khodchenkova in a prominent role within a Cold War espionage narrative.
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B.
The Spy
"The Spy" is an 1821 historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper set during the American Revolutionary War, often regarded as one of the earliest major works of American fiction.
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C.
Spies
Spies is a German-origin surname most notably associated with August Spies, a prominent 19th-century anarchist and labor activist involved in the Haymarket affair.
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D.
Spies
Spies is a 1928 German silent espionage thriller film directed by Fritz Lang, renowned for its intricate plotting, innovative visual style, and influence on the spy genre.
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E.
Spies
Spies is a novel by Michael Frayn that explores childhood memory, secrecy, and the blurred line between imagination and reality in wartime England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
spy television series
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television series ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Danger Man ⓘ |
| broadcastMedium | television ⓘ |
| characterRole | undercover operative ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| decadeOfRelease | 1960s ⓘ |
| features |
covert operations
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intelligence gathering ⓘ international locations ⓘ self-contained episodic stories ⓘ |
| format | live-action television series ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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spy fiction ⓘ |
| leadActorNationality | Irish-American ⓘ |
| leadCharacterAffiliation | Western intelligence services ⓘ |
| leadCharacterOccupation | secret agent ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
Cold War-era espionage
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moral dilemmas ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | ITV ⓘ |
| originatedAs | British television programme ⓘ |
| primaryTheme |
ethics of espionage
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individual conscience vs duty ⓘ |
| producer | Lew Grade ⓘ |
| productionCompany | ITC Entertainment ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | Cold War ⓘ |
| starring | Patrick McGoohan ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general audience ⓘ |
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: Secret Agent Description of subject: Secret Agent is a 1960s British television spy series starring Patrick McGoohan as an undercover operative navigating Cold War-era espionage and moral dilemmas.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Secret Agent