Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979 TV series)
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979 TV series) is a critically acclaimed British television adaptation of John le Carré’s Cold War spy novel, starring Alec Guinness as the retired intelligence officer George Smiley.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2386223 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979 TV series) Context triple: [Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, hasAdaptation, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979 TV series)]
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (novel)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 1974 Cold War espionage novel by John le Carré that follows retired intelligence officer George Smiley as he hunts for a Soviet mole inside the British Secret Service.
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011 film)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011 film) is a British Cold War espionage thriller, adapted from John le Carré’s novel, that follows a retired intelligence officer’s hunt for a Soviet mole inside MI6.
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Smiley’s People (novel)
Smiley’s People is a Cold War espionage novel by John le Carré that concludes the Karla Trilogy, following spymaster George Smiley as he investigates the death of a former agent and confronts his Soviet nemesis.
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Spooks
Spooks is a British television spy drama series centered on the high-stakes operations of MI5 officers.
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MI-5
MI-5 is a British spy thriller film (also known as "Spooks: The Greater Good") based on the TV series "Spooks," featuring David Oyelowo in a prominent role.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979 TV series) Target entity description: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979 TV series) is a critically acclaimed British television adaptation of John le Carré’s Cold War spy novel, starring Alec Guinness as the retired intelligence officer George Smiley.
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A.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (novel)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 1974 Cold War espionage novel by John le Carré that follows retired intelligence officer George Smiley as he hunts for a Soviet mole inside the British Secret Service.
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B.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011 film)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011 film) is a British Cold War espionage thriller, adapted from John le Carré’s novel, that follows a retired intelligence officer’s hunt for a Soviet mole inside MI6.
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C.
Smiley’s People (novel)
Smiley’s People is a Cold War espionage novel by John le Carré that concludes the Karla Trilogy, following spymaster George Smiley as he investigates the death of a former agent and confronts his Soviet nemesis.
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D.
Spooks
Spooks is a British television spy drama series centered on the high-stakes operations of MI5 officers.
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E.
MI-5
MI-5 is a British spy thriller film (also known as "Spooks: The Greater Good") based on the TV series "Spooks," featuring David Oyelowo in a prominent role.
- F. None of above. chosen
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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: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979 TV series) Description of subject: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979 TV series) is a critically acclaimed British television adaptation of John le Carré’s Cold War spy novel, starring Alec Guinness as the retired intelligence officer George Smiley.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (novel)
linked to: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979 TV series)
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The Circus (fictional British intelligence service)
linked to: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979 TV series)
linked to: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979 TV series)
linked to: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979 TV series)