The Streets of San Francisco
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The Streets of San Francisco is a 1970s American police procedural television series set in San Francisco, best known for starring Karl Malden and launching Michael Douglas to fame.
All labels observed (10)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T517159 — 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 Streets of San Francisco Context triple: [Michael Douglas, notableWork, The Streets of San Francisco]
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A.
I Love You, California
"I Love You, California" is a patriotic song celebrating the landscapes and spirit of California, officially adopted as the state's song.
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B.
California Gold
California Gold is a distinctive shade of gold used as one of the official school colors representing the University of California, Berkeley.
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“The Heart of California”
“The Heart of California” is the official motto of Madera County, reflecting its central location and significance within the state.
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D.
Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town
"Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town" is a country song most famously performed by Kenny Rogers, telling the poignant story of a disabled veteran whose wife seeks love elsewhere.
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E.
Big Yellow Taxi
"Big Yellow Taxi" is a 1970 folk-pop protest song by Joni Mitchell, best known for its environmental and anti-urban development themes encapsulated in the line “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.”
- 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 Streets of San Francisco Target entity description: The Streets of San Francisco is a 1970s American police procedural television series set in San Francisco, best known for starring Karl Malden and launching Michael Douglas to fame.
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A.
I Love You, California
"I Love You, California" is a patriotic song celebrating the landscapes and spirit of California, officially adopted as the state's song.
-
B.
California Gold
California Gold is a distinctive shade of gold used as one of the official school colors representing the University of California, Berkeley.
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C.
“The Heart of California”
“The Heart of California” is the official motto of Madera County, reflecting its central location and significance within the state.
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D.
Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town
"Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town" is a country song most famously performed by Kenny Rogers, telling the poignant story of a disabled veteran whose wife seeks love elsewhere.
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E.
Big Yellow Taxi
"Big Yellow Taxi" is a 1970 folk-pop protest song by Joni Mitchell, best known for its environmental and anti-urban development themes encapsulated in the line “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.”
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 Streets of San Francisco Description of subject: The Streets of San Francisco is a 1970s American police procedural television series set in San Francisco, best known for starring Karl Malden and launching Michael Douglas to fame.
Referenced by (42)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Streets of San Francisco
linked to: The Streets of San Francisco
linked to: The Streets of San Francisco
subject linked to:
Lt. Mike Stone – Karl Malden
subject linked to:
Lt. Mike Stone – Karl Malden
linked to: The Streets of San Francisco
subject linked to:
Lt. Mike Stone – Karl Malden
subject linked to:
Inspector Steve Keller – Michael Douglas
subject linked to:
Inspector Steve Keller – Michael Douglas
linked to: The Streets of San Francisco
subject linked to:
Inspector Steve Keller – Michael Douglas
linked to: The Streets of San Francisco
subject linked to:
Inspector Steve Keller – Michael Douglas
linked to: The Streets of San Francisco
subject linked to:
Inspector Steve Keller – Michael Douglas
linked to: The Streets of San Francisco
subject linked to:
Michael Douglas left after season 4
subject linked to:
Michael Douglas left after season 4
subject linked to:
Michael Douglas left after season 4
linked to: The Streets of San Francisco
subject linked to:
Richard Hatch replaced Michael Douglas in season 5
subject linked to:
Richard Hatch replaced Michael Douglas in season 5