To Tell the Truth
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To Tell the Truth is a classic American television game show in which a panel of celebrities attempts to identify a central contestant with a unique occupation or experience from among impostors.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| To Tell the Truth canonical | 9 |
| To Tell the Truth (host) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3225330 — 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: To Tell the Truth Context triple: [Faye Emerson, notableWork, To Tell the Truth]
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A.
The Whole Truth
The Whole Truth is the official religious magazine of the Church of God in Christ, featuring doctrinal teachings, church news, and inspirational content for its members.
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B.
Whole Truth
Whole Truth is a Christian gospel music group known for its spiritually focused songs and worship-centered recordings.
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C.
The Truth
The Truth is the famous nickname of former NBA star Paul Pierce, a Hall of Fame small forward best known for his long tenure and championship with the Boston Celtics.
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D.
Call My Bluff
"Call My Bluff" is a track by rapper Pusha T, featuring Jay-Z and Pharrell Williams, from his critically acclaimed album "It's Almost Dry."
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E.
Vérité
Vérité is a socially engaged novel by Émile Zola that denounces anti-Semitism and religious intolerance in France, inspired by the Dreyfus Affair.
- 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: To Tell the Truth Target entity description: To Tell the Truth is a classic American television game show in which a panel of celebrities attempts to identify a central contestant with a unique occupation or experience from among impostors.
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A.
The Whole Truth
The Whole Truth is the official religious magazine of the Church of God in Christ, featuring doctrinal teachings, church news, and inspirational content for its members.
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B.
Whole Truth
Whole Truth is a Christian gospel music group known for its spiritually focused songs and worship-centered recordings.
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C.
The Truth
The Truth is the famous nickname of former NBA star Paul Pierce, a Hall of Fame small forward best known for his long tenure and championship with the Boston Celtics.
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D.
Call My Bluff
"Call My Bluff" is a track by rapper Pusha T, featuring Jay-Z and Pharrell Williams, from his critically acclaimed album "It's Almost Dry."
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E.
Vérité
Vérité is a socially engaged novel by Émile Zola that denounces anti-Semitism and religious intolerance in France, inspired by the Dreyfus Affair.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American television series
ⓘ
television game show ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Nothing but the Truth
ⓘ
surface form:
Nothing But the Truth
|
| broadcastOn |
ABC
ⓘ
CBS ⓘ NBC ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Bob Stewart ⓘ |
| feature |
central contestant must tell the truth
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host asks ‘Will the real [name] please stand up?’ ⓘ host reads an affidavit describing the central contestant ⓘ impostors are allowed to lie ⓘ panel questions all contestants ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1956 ⓘ |
| format | celebrity panel identifies a central contestant with a unique occupation or experience from among impostors ⓘ |
| genre |
game show
ⓘ
panel show ⓘ |
| hasPart |
celebrity panel
ⓘ
central contestant ⓘ impostors ⓘ |
| influenced | later panel game shows involving bluffing and deception ⓘ |
| laterProductionCompany | FremantleMedia ⓘ |
| notableCatchphrase | Will the real [name] please stand up? ⓘ |
| notableHost |
Anthony Anderson
ⓘ
Bud Collyer ⓘ Garry Moore ⓘ Gordon Elliott ⓘ Joe Garagiola ⓘ John O’Hurley ⓘ Robin Ward ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | CBS ⓘ |
| originalProductionCompany |
Goodson-Todman Productions
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surface form:
Goodson–Todman Productions
|
| originalRunEnd | 1968 ⓘ |
| originalRunStart | December 18, 1956 ⓘ |
| panelComposition | four celebrity panelists ⓘ |
| producer |
Goodson-Todman Productions
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surface form:
Goodson–Todman Productions
|
| revival |
1969–1978 syndicated version
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1980–1981 syndicated version ⓘ 1990–1991 NBC daytime version ⓘ 2000–2002 syndicated version ⓘ 2016 ABC revival ⓘ |
| typicalEpisodeStructure |
introduction of three contestants claiming the same identity
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panel interrogation of contestants ⓘ panel makes final guesses ⓘ revelation of the real person ⓘ |
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: To Tell the Truth Description of subject: To Tell the Truth is a classic American television game show in which a panel of celebrities attempts to identify a central contestant with a unique occupation or experience from among impostors.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
To Tell the Truth (host)
subject surface form:
What's My Line?