Mary (1978 TV series)
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Mary (1978 TV series) is a short-lived American sitcom starring Mary Tyler Moore that aired in 1978, following her earlier success with The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary (1978 TV series) canonical | 2 |
| Mary (1985 TV series) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3357814 — 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: Mary (1978 TV series) Context triple: [Mary Tyler Moore, notableWork, Mary (1978 TV series)]
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Upstairs, Downstairs
Upstairs, Downstairs is a British period drama television series that chronicles the intertwined lives of a wealthy family and their servants in an early 20th-century London townhouse.
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B.
Dixon of Dock Green
Dixon of Dock Green is a long-running British television police drama series that originally aired from the 1950s to the 1970s, depicting the everyday work and community-focused policing of a London bobby.
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C.
Falcon Crest
Falcon Crest is an American prime-time television soap opera that aired in the 1980s, centered on the power struggles within a wealthy California wine-making family.
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D.
Brideshead Revisited (TV, 1981)
Brideshead Revisited (TV, 1981) is a critically acclaimed British television serial adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s novel, renowned for its lavish production, faithful storytelling, and exploration of faith, class, and memory in interwar England.
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E.
Wuthering Heights (1978 TV series)
Wuthering Heights (1978 TV series) is a British television adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic novel, dramatizing the turbulent relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine on the Yorkshire moors.
- 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: Mary (1978 TV series) Target entity description: Mary (1978 TV series) is a short-lived American sitcom starring Mary Tyler Moore that aired in 1978, following her earlier success with The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
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A.
Upstairs, Downstairs
Upstairs, Downstairs is a British period drama television series that chronicles the intertwined lives of a wealthy family and their servants in an early 20th-century London townhouse.
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B.
Dixon of Dock Green
Dixon of Dock Green is a long-running British television police drama series that originally aired from the 1950s to the 1970s, depicting the everyday work and community-focused policing of a London bobby.
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C.
Falcon Crest
Falcon Crest is an American prime-time television soap opera that aired in the 1980s, centered on the power struggles within a wealthy California wine-making family.
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D.
Brideshead Revisited (TV, 1981)
Brideshead Revisited (TV, 1981) is a critically acclaimed British television serial adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s novel, renowned for its lavish production, faithful storytelling, and exploration of faith, class, and memory in interwar England.
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E.
Wuthering Heights (1978 TV series)
Wuthering Heights (1978 TV series) is a British television adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic novel, dramatizing the turbulent relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine on the Yorkshire moors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American television sitcom
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sitcom ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| basedOnCharacterType | television news magazine setting ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| firstAired | 1978 ⓘ |
| followedWork | The Mary Tyler Moore Show ⓘ |
| format | half-hour comedy series ⓘ |
| genre | sitcom ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Mary (1978 TV series) ⓘ |
| hasCastMember | Mary Tyler Moore ⓘ |
| hasGenre | comedy ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter | Mary McKinnon ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Mary ⓘ |
| leadActorPlaysCharacter |
Mary Tyler Moore
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surface form:
Mary Tyler Moore as Mary McKinnon
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| medium | television ⓘ |
| network | CBS ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a short-lived follow-up vehicle for Mary Tyler Moore after The Mary Tyler Moore Show ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 1 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | CBS ⓘ |
| originalReleaseYear | 1978 ⓘ |
| productionCompany | MTM Enterprises ⓘ |
| settingLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| shortDescription | short-lived American sitcom starring Mary Tyler Moore that aired in 1978 ⓘ |
| starring | Mary Tyler Moore ⓘ |
| status | short-lived ⓘ |
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: Mary (1978 TV series) Description of subject: Mary (1978 TV series) is a short-lived American sitcom starring Mary Tyler Moore that aired in 1978, following her earlier success with The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mary (1985 TV series)