The Edge of Night
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The Edge of Night is an American television soap opera that blended crime, mystery, and courtroom drama, airing on network TV from the 1950s through the 1980s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Edge of Night canonical | 11 |
| Edge of Night | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9732185 — 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 Edge of Night Context triple: [Frances Fisher, notableWork, The Edge of Night]
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A.
Guiding Light
"Guiding Light" is a folk-rock single by British band Mumford & Sons, known for its anthemic build, emotive lyrics, and prominent use of acoustic and electric instrumentation.
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B.
Guiding Light
Guiding Light is a long-running American television soap opera renowned for its multi-decade run on radio and TV and its influential role in daytime drama history.
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C.
Hart to Hart
Hart to Hart is an American mystery television series from the late 1970s and early 1980s that follows a wealthy married couple who moonlight as amateur detectives solving crimes.
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D.
Queen for a Day
Queen for a Day was a popular mid-20th-century American radio and television game show in which women competed by sharing personal hardships to win household prizes and a symbolic "queen" title for a day.
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E.
As the World Turns
As the World Turns was a long-running American television soap opera that followed the intertwined lives and dramas of families in the fictional town of Oakdale.
- 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 Edge of Night Target entity description: The Edge of Night is an American television soap opera that blended crime, mystery, and courtroom drama, airing on network TV from the 1950s through the 1980s.
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A.
Guiding Light
"Guiding Light" is a folk-rock single by British band Mumford & Sons, known for its anthemic build, emotive lyrics, and prominent use of acoustic and electric instrumentation.
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B.
Guiding Light
Guiding Light is a long-running American television soap opera renowned for its multi-decade run on radio and TV and its influential role in daytime drama history.
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C.
Hart to Hart
Hart to Hart is an American mystery television series from the late 1970s and early 1980s that follows a wealthy married couple who moonlight as amateur detectives solving crimes.
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D.
Queen for a Day
Queen for a Day was a popular mid-20th-century American radio and television game show in which women competed by sharing personal hardships to win household prizes and a symbolic "queen" title for a day.
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E.
As the World Turns
As the World Turns was a long-running American television soap opera that followed the intertwined lives and dramas of families in the fictional town of Oakdale.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | television soap opera ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Edge of Night
ⓘ
linked to:
The Edge of Night
|
| audioFormat | mono ⓘ |
| basedOn | Perry Mason radio serial concept (loosely) ⓘ |
| broadcastOn | network television ⓘ |
| broadcastSchedule | weekdays ⓘ |
| broadcastType | serial drama ⓘ |
| coCreator | Allen Potter ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Irna Phillips ⓘ |
| distribution | United States broadcast syndication (reruns) ⓘ |
| era |
1950s American television
ⓘ
1960s American television ⓘ 1970s American television ⓘ 1980s American television ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| finalAired | 1984-12-28 ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1956-04-02 ⓘ |
| format | daytime serial ⓘ |
| genre |
courtroom drama
ⓘ
crime drama ⓘ mystery ⓘ soap opera ⓘ |
| hasFanBase | soap opera fans ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
crime investigation
ⓘ
family relationships ⓘ legal drama ⓘ romantic relationships ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Mike Karr ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation |
district attorney
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blending soap opera with crime and mystery elements
ⓘ
courtroom-centered storylines ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 7420 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 28 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originallyConceivedFor | radio ⓘ |
| originalNetwork |
ABC
ⓘ
CBS ⓘ |
| originalTimeSlot | daytime television ⓘ |
| pictureFormat |
black-and-white
ⓘ
color ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Procter & Gamble Productions ⓘ |
| runtimePerEpisode | 30 minutes ⓘ |
| setting | Monticello (fictional city) ⓘ |
| sponsor | Procter & Gamble ⓘ |
| targetAudience | daytime television viewers ⓘ |
| transitionedTo | television ⓘ |
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 Edge of Night Description of subject: The Edge of Night is an American television soap opera that blended crime, mystery, and courtroom drama, airing on network TV from the 1950s through the 1980s.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Edge of Night
linked to: The Edge of Night