The Shadow
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The Shadow is a classic American radio drama series featuring a mysterious crime-fighting vigilante with the power to cloud men's minds, making him invisible to his enemies.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Shadow canonical | 6 |
| The Shadow (pulp magazine) | 1 |
| The Shadow (radio series) | 1 |
| The Shadow film serials | 1 |
| the Shadow | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3214553 — 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.
Target entity: The Shadow Context triple: [Mutual Broadcasting System, notableProgram, The Shadow]
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A.
The White Shadow
The White Shadow is an American television drama series from the late 1970s that follows a white former professional basketball player who becomes the coach of a predominantly Black high school team in inner-city Los Angeles.
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B.
In the Shadow of Man
In the Shadow of Man is Jane Goodall’s influential 1971 book that chronicles her pioneering field research on wild chimpanzees in Tanzania and helped transform our understanding of primate behavior and human evolution.
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C.
The Shadow Out of Time
The Shadow Out of Time is a science fiction–horror novella by H. P. Lovecraft that explores time travel, body-swapping, and cosmic entities through the fragmented memories of a professor who suspects his mind has been displaced across eons.
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D.
The Shadow of Death
The Shadow of Death is a 19th-century religious painting by William Holman Hunt depicting a pre-crucifixion vision of Christ, emblematic of the Pre-Raphaelite movement’s detailed realism and symbolic intensity.
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E.
The Dark Mirror
The Dark Mirror is a 1946 psychological film noir thriller about identical twin sisters, directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Olivia de Havilland.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: The Shadow Target entity description: The Shadow is a classic American radio drama series featuring a mysterious crime-fighting vigilante with the power to cloud men's minds, making him invisible to his enemies.
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A.
The White Shadow
The White Shadow is an American television drama series from the late 1970s that follows a white former professional basketball player who becomes the coach of a predominantly Black high school team in inner-city Los Angeles.
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B.
In the Shadow of Man
In the Shadow of Man is Jane Goodall’s influential 1971 book that chronicles her pioneering field research on wild chimpanzees in Tanzania and helped transform our understanding of primate behavior and human evolution.
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C.
The Shadow Out of Time
The Shadow Out of Time is a science fiction–horror novella by H. P. Lovecraft that explores time travel, body-swapping, and cosmic entities through the fragmented memories of a professor who suspects his mind has been displaced across eons.
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D.
The Shadow of Death
The Shadow of Death is a 19th-century religious painting by William Holman Hunt depicting a pre-crucifixion vision of Christ, emblematic of the Pre-Raphaelite movement’s detailed realism and symbolic intensity.
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E.
The Dark Mirror
The Dark Mirror is a 1946 psychological film noir thriller about identical twin sisters, directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Olivia de Havilland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American radio program
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radio drama series ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Shadow pulp magazine character ⓘ |
| broadcastOn |
CBS Radio
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Mutual Broadcasting System ⓘ |
| centralPremise | crime-fighting vigilante with power to cloud men’s minds ⓘ |
| characterCreatedBy | Walter B. Gibson ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| distributionFormat | syndicated radio transcription discs ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Commissioner Weston
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Margo Lane ⓘ Shrevvy ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1937 ⓘ |
| format | radio serial ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
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mystery ⓘ superhero fiction ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter |
Lamont Cranston
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The Shadow self-link ⓘ |
| hasNarrator | The Shadow self-link ⓘ |
| hasSpinOff |
The Shadow comic books
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The Shadow self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The Shadow film serials
The Shadow novels ⓘ |
| influenced |
Batman character development
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later superhero radio shows ⓘ |
| lastAired | 1954 ⓘ |
| margoLaneVoiceActor |
Agnes Moorehead
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Grace Matthews ⓘ Lesley Woods ⓘ Marjorie Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrationCatchphrase | Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows! ⓘ |
| narrationVoiceActor | Frank Readick ⓘ |
| notableEra | Golden Age of Radio ⓘ |
| openingTheme | “The Shadow” theme based on Saint-Saëns’ “Omphale’s Spinning Wheel” ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalMedium | radio ⓘ |
| power |
ability to cloud men’s minds
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practical invisibility to enemies ⓘ |
| producer |
Charles Michelson
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Harry A. Junkin NERFINISHED ⓘ J. R. Poppele ⓘ |
| setting | New York City ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general radio audience ⓘ |
| themeMusicComposer | Bernard Herrmann ⓘ |
| titleCharacterVoiceActor |
Bill Johnstone
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Bret Morrison ⓘ John Archer ⓘ Orson Welles ⓘ Steve Courtleigh ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: The Shadow Description of subject: The Shadow is a classic American radio drama series featuring a mysterious crime-fighting vigilante with the power to cloud men's minds, making him invisible to his enemies.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.