Waking the Dead
E260904
British television series
crime drama television series
fictional police unit
police procedural television series
Waking the Dead is a British crime drama television series centered on a specialist police unit that reopens and investigates cold cases using modern forensic and psychological techniques.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Waking the Dead canonical | 45 |
| Waking the Dead universe | 3 |
| Waking the Dead (TV series) | 2 |
| BBC television series Waking the Dead | 1 |
| Waking the Dead series 1 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2386368 — 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)
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Target entity: Waking the Dead Context triple: [Paul McGann, playedInTelevisionSeries, Waking the Dead]
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A.
Shallow Grave
Shallow Grave is a 1994 British darkly comic thriller film about three flatmates who discover their new roommate dead alongside a suitcase of cash, directed by Danny Boyle in his feature debut.
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B.
Dead Ringer
Dead Ringer is a 1964 film noir–style thriller starring Bette Davis in dual roles as estranged twin sisters entangled in murder and identity theft.
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C.
Land of the Dead
Land of the Dead is a vibrant, fantastical afterlife realm in Pixar's "Coco," where deceased ancestors live in a colorful city sustained by the memories of the living.
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D.
Funeral
"Funeral" is a 2020 studio album by American rapper Lil Wayne that showcases his rapid-fire lyricism over a diverse range of modern trap and melodic production.
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E.
Funeral
"Funeral" is the critically acclaimed 2004 debut studio album by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire, known for its emotional intensity and orchestral, anthemic sound.
- 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: Waking the Dead Target entity description: Waking the Dead is a British crime drama television series centered on a specialist police unit that reopens and investigates cold cases using modern forensic and psychological techniques.
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A.
Shallow Grave
Shallow Grave is a 1994 British darkly comic thriller film about three flatmates who discover their new roommate dead alongside a suitcase of cash, directed by Danny Boyle in his feature debut.
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B.
Dead Ringer
Dead Ringer is a 1964 film noir–style thriller starring Bette Davis in dual roles as estranged twin sisters entangled in murder and identity theft.
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C.
Land of the Dead
Land of the Dead is a vibrant, fantastical afterlife realm in Pixar's "Coco," where deceased ancestors live in a colorful city sustained by the memories of the living.
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D.
Funeral
"Funeral" is a 2020 studio album by American rapper Lil Wayne that showcases his rapid-fire lyricism over a diverse range of modern trap and melodic production.
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E.
Funeral
"Funeral" is the critically acclaimed 2004 debut studio album by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire, known for its emotional intensity and orchestral, anthemic sound.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Waking the Dead Description of subject: Waking the Dead is a British crime drama television series centered on a specialist police unit that reopens and investigates cold cases using modern forensic and psychological techniques.
Referenced by (52)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Waking the Dead
subject linked to:
Joel Johnston
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