Hung (TV series)
E1011757
American television series
dark comedy-drama television series
fictional character
television series
Hung is an American dark comedy-drama television series that follows a financially struggling high school coach who turns to male prostitution to make ends meet.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hung (TV series) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12928066 — 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: Hung (TV series) Context triple: [Charlie Saxton, notableWork, Hung (TV series)]
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A.
Gyeongseong Creature
Gyeongseong Creature is a South Korean period horror-thriller drama series set in 1940s colonial Seoul, following characters who confront monstrous human experiments and dark secrets under Japanese occupation.
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B.
Saarang
Saarang is the annual cultural festival of IIT Madras, known as one of India’s largest and most prominent college cultural fests featuring music, arts, literary, and performing arts events.
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C.
Guklib Doseogwan
Guklib Doseogwan is the National Library of Korea, serving as the country’s central repository for published materials and a major hub for research and cultural preservation.
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D.
Gwan-eum
Gwan-eum is the Korean name for Guanyin, the bodhisattva of compassion widely revered in East Asian Buddhism.
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E.
Taegukgi
Taegukgi is the national flag of South Korea, symbolizing balance, harmony, and the Korean people's identity and independence.
- 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: Hung (TV series) Target entity description: Hung is an American dark comedy-drama television series that follows a financially struggling high school coach who turns to male prostitution to make ends meet.
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A.
Gyeongseong Creature
Gyeongseong Creature is a South Korean period horror-thriller drama series set in 1940s colonial Seoul, following characters who confront monstrous human experiments and dark secrets under Japanese occupation.
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B.
Saarang
Saarang is the annual cultural festival of IIT Madras, known as one of India’s largest and most prominent college cultural fests featuring music, arts, literary, and performing arts events.
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C.
Guklib Doseogwan
Guklib Doseogwan is the National Library of Korea, serving as the country’s central repository for published materials and a major hub for research and cultural preservation.
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D.
Gwan-eum
Gwan-eum is the Korean name for Guanyin, the bodhisattva of compassion widely revered in East Asian Buddhism.
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E.
Taegukgi
Taegukgi is the national flag of South Korea, symbolizing balance, harmony, and the Korean people's identity and independence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American television series
ⓘ
dark comedy-drama television series ⓘ fictional character ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| airedOn | HBO in the United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| audioFormat | Dolby Digital ⓘ |
| composer | Tree Adams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator |
Colette Burson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dmitry Lipkin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Home Box Office NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| executiveProducer |
Alexander Payne
NERFINISHED
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Colette Burson NERFINISHED ⓘ Dmitry Lipkin NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Rosenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ Nina Noble NERFINISHED ⓘ Scott Stephens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Detroit
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| finalAired | 2011-12-04 ⓘ |
| firstAired | 2009-06-28 ⓘ |
| genre |
dark comedy
ⓘ
drama ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
economic recession
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financial struggle ⓘ middle-class life ⓘ sexuality ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Ray Drecker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 30 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
high school basketball coach
ⓘ
male prostitute ⓘ |
| originalChannelType | premium cable network ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | HBO ⓘ |
| pictureFormat | HDTV 1080i ⓘ |
| pilotDirector | Alexander Payne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayed | Ray Drecker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | HBO Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonist | Ray Drecker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Detroit
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starredActor |
Anne Heche
NERFINISHED
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Charlie Saxton NERFINISHED ⓘ Eddie Jemison NERFINISHED ⓘ Jane Adams NERFINISHED ⓘ Rebecca Creskoff NERFINISHED ⓘ Sianoa Smit-McPhee NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Jane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Hung (TV series) Description of subject: Hung is an American dark comedy-drama television series that follows a financially struggling high school coach who turns to male prostitution to make ends meet.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.