Card Sharks
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Card Sharks is an American television game show where contestants guess survey results and play a high–low card game for cash and prizes.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Card Sharks canonical | 7 |
| American television game show Card Sharks | 1 |
| Card Sharks (1986–1989) | 1 |
| Card Sharks (2001) | 1 |
| Card Sharks (2019–2021) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4890253 — 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)
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Target entity: Card Sharks Context triple: [Joel McHale, appearedIn, Card Sharks]
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A.
Wild Cards
Wild Cards is a long-running shared-universe superhero anthology series, primarily edited and co-created by George R. R. Martin, that explores an alternate history shaped by an alien virus granting people extraordinary powers.
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B.
Draw of the Cards
"Draw of the Cards" is a 1981 synth-driven pop/rock song by American singer Kim Carnes, released as a follow-up single to her hit "Bette Davis Eyes."
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C.
Cardroom Estate
Cardroom Estate was a former public housing estate in Manchester, England, that was extensively redeveloped into the modern New Islington urban regeneration area.
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D.
Smokin' Aces
Smokin' Aces is a 2006 action-crime film centered on a Las Vegas magician-turned-mob informant whose impending testimony triggers a violent scramble among hitmen, FBI agents, and mobsters.
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E.
Bringing Down the House
Bringing Down the House is a 2003 comedy film starring Steve Martin and Queen Latifah about an uptight lawyer whose life is upended when an ex-con he met online shows up at his door.
- 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: Card Sharks Target entity description: Card Sharks is an American television game show where contestants guess survey results and play a high–low card game for cash and prizes.
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A.
Wild Cards
Wild Cards is a long-running shared-universe superhero anthology series, primarily edited and co-created by George R. R. Martin, that explores an alternate history shaped by an alien virus granting people extraordinary powers.
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B.
Draw of the Cards
"Draw of the Cards" is a 1981 synth-driven pop/rock song by American singer Kim Carnes, released as a follow-up single to her hit "Bette Davis Eyes."
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C.
Cardroom Estate
Cardroom Estate was a former public housing estate in Manchester, England, that was extensively redeveloped into the modern New Islington urban regeneration area.
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D.
Smokin' Aces
Smokin' Aces is a 2006 action-crime film centered on a Las Vegas magician-turned-mob informant whose impending testimony triggers a violent scramble among hitmen, FBI agents, and mobsters.
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E.
Bringing Down the House
Bringing Down the House is a 2003 comedy film starring Steve Martin and Queen Latifah about an uptight lawyer whose life is upended when an ex-con he met online shows up at his door.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American television series
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television game show ⓘ |
| basedOn | higher–lower card game concept ⓘ |
| broadcastFormat |
daytime television
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prime time revival ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| createdBy |
Bob Stewart
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Chester Feldman ⓘ |
| distributor | Fremantle ⓘ |
| featuresComponent |
audience survey questions
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contestant prediction of survey results ⓘ giant playing cards ⓘ money cards bonus round ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1978 ⓘ |
| format | quiz show ⓘ |
| genre | game show ⓘ |
| hasGameplayElement |
cash prizes
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high–low card game ⓘ merchandise prizes ⓘ survey questions ⓘ |
| hasInternationalVersion | Play Your Cards Right ⓘ |
| hasRevival |
Card Sharks (1986–1989)
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linked to:
Card Sharks
Card Sharks (2001) ⓘ
linked to:
Card Sharks
Card Sharks (2019–2021) ⓘ
linked to:
Card Sharks
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| host |
Bill Rafferty
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Bob Eubanks ⓘ Jim Perry ⓘ Joel McHale ⓘ Pat Bullard ⓘ |
| laterNetwork |
ABC
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CBS ⓘ Syndication ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
contestants call higher or lower on next card
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use of survey questions asked to 100 people ⓘ wagering on final row of money cards ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | NBC ⓘ |
| originalRunEndYear | 1981 ⓘ |
| originalRunStartYear | 1978 ⓘ |
| pictureFormat | color ⓘ |
| prizeType |
automobiles
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cash ⓘ merchandise ⓘ trips ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Goodson–Todman Productions
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linked to:
Goodson-Todman Productions
Mark Goodson Productions ⓘ
linked to:
Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions
|
| typicalContestants | civilian adults ⓘ |
| typicalRunningTime | 30 minutes ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Card Sharks Description of subject: Card Sharks is an American television game show where contestants guess survey results and play a high–low card game for cash and prizes.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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