Five Fingers (TV series)
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Five Fingers is a late-1950s American espionage television series starring David Hedison as a U.S. counterintelligence agent operating undercover in Europe during the Cold War.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Five Fingers (TV series) canonical | 2 |
| Five Fingers (1952 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6545969 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Five Fingers (TV series) Context triple: [David Hedison, notableWork, Five Fingers (TV series)]
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A.
Finger
Finger is a common English surname borne by various individuals, including comic book writer Bill Finger.
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B.
Hi Five Ghost
Hi Five Ghost is a small, floating ghost with a hand on his head who appears as one of the laid-back, supporting characters in the animated series "Regular Show."
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C.
The Five
"The Five" is a novel by Russian-Jewish writer Vladimir Zhabotinsky that portrays the lives and assimilation of a Jewish family in early 20th-century Odessa.
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D.
The Five
The Five is a Fox News Channel weekday panel show where five co-hosts discuss current news, politics, and pop culture from a generally conservative perspective.
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E.
Avenue 5
Avenue 5 is a sci-fi comedy television series set aboard a luxury space cruise ship, created by Armando Iannucci and known for its satirical take on space travel and corporate incompetence.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Five Fingers (TV series) Target entity description: Five Fingers is a late-1950s American espionage television series starring David Hedison as a U.S. counterintelligence agent operating undercover in Europe during the Cold War.
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A.
Finger
Finger is a common English surname borne by various individuals, including comic book writer Bill Finger.
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B.
Hi Five Ghost
Hi Five Ghost is a small, floating ghost with a hand on his head who appears as one of the laid-back, supporting characters in the animated series "Regular Show."
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C.
The Five
"The Five" is a novel by Russian-Jewish writer Vladimir Zhabotinsky that portrays the lives and assimilation of a Jewish family in early 20th-century Odessa.
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D.
The Five
The Five is a Fox News Channel weekday panel show where five co-hosts discuss current news, politics, and pop culture from a generally conservative perspective.
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E.
Avenue 5
Avenue 5 is a sci-fi comedy television series set aboard a luxury space cruise ship, created by Armando Iannucci and known for its satirical take on space travel and corporate incompetence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | television series ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Five Fingers (1952 film)
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linked to:
Five Fingers (TV series)
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| broadcastFormat | weekly series ⓘ |
| characterRole | David Hedison as U.S. counterintelligence agent ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| distributionFormat | black-and-white television ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1959 ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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espionage ⓘ |
| hasTheme | espionage and counterintelligence ⓘ |
| lastAired | 1960 ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | U.S. counterintelligence agent ⓘ |
| mediaType | live-action ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | Cold War ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 16 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 1 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | NBC ⓘ |
| originalRunPeriod | late 1950s ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
20th Century Fox Television
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linked to:
20th Century Fox
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| setting | Europe ⓘ |
| starredActor | David Hedison ⓘ |
| targetAudience | prime-time television viewers ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted |
Cold War Europe
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linked to:
Cold War
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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: Five Fingers (TV series) Description of subject: Five Fingers is a late-1950s American espionage television series starring David Hedison as a U.S. counterintelligence agent operating undercover in Europe during the Cold War.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Five Fingers (TV series)