Life on Mars
E245029
British television series
crime drama television series
science fiction television series
television series
Life on Mars is a British science fiction crime drama television series that follows a modern-day detective who mysteriously wakes up in the 1970s after a car accident.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Life on Mars canonical | 15 |
| Life on Mars? | 2 |
| Life on Mars (U.S. TV series) | 1 |
| Life on Mars (UK TV series) | 1 |
| Life on Mars (United Kingdom) | 1 |
| Life on Mars franchise | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2217567 — 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: Life on Mars Context triple: [Kudos Film and Television, notableWork, Life on Mars]
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A.
Mission to Mars
Mission to Mars is a science fiction novel by astronaut Buzz Aldrin that explores the technical, political, and human challenges of planning and executing a crewed journey to the Red Planet.
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B.
Red Planet
Red Planet is the popular nickname for Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun known for its rust-colored surface and long-standing association with the possibility of past or present life.
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C.
Martians
Martians are the technologically advanced, hostile alien invaders from H. G. Wells’s science fiction novel "The War of the Worlds."
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D.
The Martian
The Martian is a 2015 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, based on Andy Weir’s novel, that follows an astronaut stranded on Mars who must use his ingenuity to survive while awaiting rescue.
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E.
Mars (TV series)
Mars is a hybrid scripted-documentary television series that dramatizes a near-future human mission to the Red Planet while interweaving real-world scientific commentary and expert interviews.
- 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: Life on Mars Target entity description: Life on Mars is a British science fiction crime drama television series that follows a modern-day detective who mysteriously wakes up in the 1970s after a car accident.
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A.
Mission to Mars
Mission to Mars is a science fiction novel by astronaut Buzz Aldrin that explores the technical, political, and human challenges of planning and executing a crewed journey to the Red Planet.
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B.
Red Planet
Red Planet is the popular nickname for Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun known for its rust-colored surface and long-standing association with the possibility of past or present life.
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C.
Martians
Martians are the technologically advanced, hostile alien invaders from H. G. Wells’s science fiction novel "The War of the Worlds."
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D.
The Martian
The Martian is a 2015 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, based on Andy Weir’s novel, that follows an astronaut stranded on Mars who must use his ingenuity to survive while awaiting rescue.
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E.
Mars (TV series)
Mars is a hybrid scripted-documentary television series that dramatizes a near-future human mission to the Red Planet while interweaving real-world scientific commentary and expert interviews.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Life on Mars Description of subject: Life on Mars is a British science fiction crime drama television series that follows a modern-day detective who mysteriously wakes up in the 1970s after a car accident.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Life on Mars (United Kingdom)
this entity surface form:
Life on Mars?
this entity surface form:
Life on Mars?
this entity surface form:
Life on Mars (U.S. TV series)
this entity surface form:
Life on Mars franchise
subject surface form:
Kudos
subject surface form:
John Simm
subject surface form:
John Simm