The Odd Man
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The Odd Man is a British television series from the early 1960s, best known as a crime drama that helped launch the long-running “Edgar Wallace Mysteries” franchise.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Odd Man canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10616123 — 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 Odd Man Context triple: [Patricia Haines, notableWork, The Odd Man]
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A.
The Other Man
The Other Man is a 2008 psychological thriller film about a husband who becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth about his wife's secret lover.
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B.
The Four Men
The Four Men is a semi-autobiographical travelogue by Hilaire Belloc that follows four allegorical companions walking across Sussex while reflecting on English life, landscape, and identity.
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C.
The Man at Six
The Man at Six is a British mystery play, best known as a stage thriller by actor-playwright Frank Vosper.
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D.
Fools' Parade
Fools' Parade is a 1971 crime drama film, based on a Davis Grubb novel, about three ex-convicts facing corruption and violence when they try to collect their prison savings in a small West Virginia town.
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E.
The Fourth Man
The Fourth Man is a 1983 Dutch psychological thriller film directed by Paul Verhoeven, known for its surreal, erotic, and religiously charged exploration of obsession and murder.
- 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 Odd Man Target entity description: The Odd Man is a British television series from the early 1960s, best known as a crime drama that helped launch the long-running “Edgar Wallace Mysteries” franchise.
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A.
The Other Man
The Other Man is a 2008 psychological thriller film about a husband who becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth about his wife's secret lover.
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B.
The Four Men
The Four Men is a semi-autobiographical travelogue by Hilaire Belloc that follows four allegorical companions walking across Sussex while reflecting on English life, landscape, and identity.
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C.
The Man at Six
The Man at Six is a British mystery play, best known as a stage thriller by actor-playwright Frank Vosper.
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D.
Fools' Parade
Fools' Parade is a 1971 crime drama film, based on a Davis Grubb novel, about three ex-convicts facing corruption and violence when they try to collect their prison savings in a small West Virginia town.
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E.
The Fourth Man
The Fourth Man is a 1983 Dutch psychological thriller film directed by Paul Verhoeven, known for its surreal, erotic, and religiously charged exploration of obsession and murder.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | British television series ⓘ |
| basedOn |
works of Edgar Wallace
ⓘ
linked to:
Edgar Wallace
|
| broadcastOn |
ITV network
ⓘ
linked to:
ITV
|
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| firstBroadcastDecade | 1960s ⓘ |
| firstBroadcastPeriod | early 1960s ⓘ |
| format | black-and-white television ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
police procedural ⓘ |
| hasProductionType | scripted television series ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
crime investigation
ⓘ
police work ⓘ |
| helpedLaunch |
Edgar Wallace Mysteries
ⓘ
linked to:
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre
|
| inFranchise |
Edgar Wallace Mysteries
ⓘ
linked to:
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre
|
| medium | television ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being an early 1960s British crime drama
ⓘ
helping to establish the Edgar Wallace Mysteries cycle of dramas ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originallyAiredIn | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | ITV ⓘ |
| partOf |
Edgar Wallace Mysteries franchise
ⓘ
linked to:
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre
|
| producedFor | ITV ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Granada Television ⓘ |
| setting | United Kingdom ⓘ |
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: The Odd Man Description of subject: The Odd Man is a British television series from the early 1960s, best known as a crime drama that helped launch the long-running “Edgar Wallace Mysteries” franchise.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.