The Following
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The Following is an American psychological thriller television series about an FBI agent pursuing a charismatic serial killer who commands a cult of devoted followers.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Following canonical | 27 |
| The Following (TV series) | 4 |
| television series "The Following" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3401891 — 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: The Following Context triple: [Michael Ealy, notableWork, The Following]
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A.
Quantico
Quantico is a small town in Prince William County, Virginia, best known for hosting the Marine Corps Base Quantico and several major U.S. federal law enforcement training facilities.
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B.
Gone
"Gone" is a reflective hip-hop track by Kanye West featuring Consequence and Cam'ron, known for its soulful Otis Redding sample and intricate storytelling.
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C.
Gone
"Gone" is a country music album by American singer-songwriter Dwight Yoakam that blends traditional honky-tonk with more contemporary influences.
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D.
It Comes at Night
It Comes at Night is a 2017 psychological horror film about a family struggling to survive a mysterious, deadly contagion in an isolated house.
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E.
The Leftovers
The Leftovers is an American supernatural drama television series that explores the emotional and societal aftermath of a mysterious global event in which 2% of the world's population suddenly disappears.
- 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: The Following Target entity description: The Following is an American psychological thriller television series about an FBI agent pursuing a charismatic serial killer who commands a cult of devoted followers.
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A.
Quantico
Quantico is a small town in Prince William County, Virginia, best known for hosting the Marine Corps Base Quantico and several major U.S. federal law enforcement training facilities.
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B.
Gone
"Gone" is a reflective hip-hop track by Kanye West featuring Consequence and Cam'ron, known for its soulful Otis Redding sample and intricate storytelling.
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C.
Gone
"Gone" is a country music album by American singer-songwriter Dwight Yoakam that blends traditional honky-tonk with more contemporary influences.
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D.
It Comes at Night
It Comes at Night is a 2017 psychological horror film about a family struggling to survive a mysterious, deadly contagion in an isolated house.
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E.
The Leftovers
The Leftovers is an American supernatural drama television series that explores the emotional and societal aftermath of a mysterious global event in which 2% of the world's population suddenly disappears.
- 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: The Following Description of subject: The Following is an American psychological thriller television series about an FBI agent pursuing a charismatic serial killer who commands a cult of devoted followers.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Following
subject linked to:
Michael Brown
linked to: The Following
linked to: The Following
linked to: The Following
linked to: The Following