The Mechanism
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The Mechanism is a Brazilian political thriller television series that dramatizes large-scale corruption investigations inspired by real events in Brazil.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| O Mecanismo | 3 |
| The Mechanism canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5019552 — 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 Mechanism Context triple: [José Padilha, directed, The Mechanism]
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A.
The Machine
The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
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B.
The Machine
The Machine is a powerful, clandestine artificial superintelligence from the TV series "Person of Interest" that predicts violent crimes by analyzing global surveillance data.
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C.
The Machine of the World
The Machine of the World is a famous allegorical vision in Luís de Camões’ epic poem *Os Lusíadas*, in which the cosmos and its secrets are revealed to the Portuguese explorers.
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D.
La Máquina
La Máquina is the popular nickname of Mexican football club Cruz Azul, highlighting its reputation as a powerful, relentless team.
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E.
Engines of Logic
Engines of Logic is a book by mathematician and computer scientist Martin Davis that explores the historical development of mathematical logic and its foundational role in the creation of modern computers.
- 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 Mechanism Target entity description: The Mechanism is a Brazilian political thriller television series that dramatizes large-scale corruption investigations inspired by real events in Brazil.
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A.
The Machine
The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
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B.
The Machine
The Machine is a powerful, clandestine artificial superintelligence from the TV series "Person of Interest" that predicts violent crimes by analyzing global surveillance data.
-
C.
The Machine of the World
The Machine of the World is a famous allegorical vision in Luís de Camões’ epic poem *Os Lusíadas*, in which the cosmos and its secrets are revealed to the Portuguese explorers.
-
D.
La Máquina
La Máquina is the popular nickname of Mexican football club Cruz Azul, highlighting its reputation as a powerful, relentless team.
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E.
Engines of Logic
Engines of Logic is a book by mathematician and computer scientist Martin Davis that explores the historical development of mathematical logic and its foundational role in the creation of modern computers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Brazilian television series
ⓘ
political thriller television series ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| basedOn | Operation Car Wash corruption investigations ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Brazil ⓘ |
| creator |
Elena Soarez
ⓘ
linked to:
Elena Soárez
José Padilha ⓘ |
| distributionFormat | streaming video on demand ⓘ |
| distributor | Netflix ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Brazil ⓘ |
| firstAired | 2018-03-23 ⓘ |
| firstReleaseYear | 2018 ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
political thriller ⓘ |
| hasDirector | José Padilha ⓘ |
| hasEpisodeLength | approximately 40 minutes ⓘ |
| hasFormat | serial narrative television ⓘ |
| hasProductionType | scripted series ⓘ |
| hasSubgenre | crime thriller television series ⓘ |
| hasWriter |
Elena Soarez
ⓘ
linked to:
Elena Soárez
|
| inspiredBy | real corruption events in Brazil ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
large-scale corruption investigations
ⓘ
money laundering ⓘ political corruption ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 16 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 2 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Portuguese ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | Netflix ⓘ |
| originalTitle |
O Mecanismo
ⓘ
linked to:
The Mechanism
|
| platform | Netflix ⓘ |
| portrays |
Brazilian political system
ⓘ
corruption schemes involving politicians and businesspeople ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Netflix ⓘ |
| releasePlatform |
Netflix streaming service
ⓘ
linked to:
Netflix
|
| setInCountry | Brazil ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 21st century ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult viewers ⓘ |
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 Mechanism Description of subject: The Mechanism is a Brazilian political thriller television series that dramatizes large-scale corruption investigations inspired by real events in Brazil.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Mechanism
linked to: The Mechanism
linked to: The Mechanism