Moonlighting
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Moonlighting is an American television dramedy series from the 1980s, best known for its witty, fast-paced dialogue, genre-blending style, and the star-making role it gave Bruce Willis as a wisecracking private detective.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Moonlighting canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5142721 — 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: Moonlighting Context triple: [Bruce Willis, notableWork, Moonlighting]
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A.
Mr. Moonlight
"Mr. Moonlight" is a cover of a bluesy rock and roll song recorded by the Beatles and included on their 1964 album Beatles for Sale.
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B.
Race to Witch Mountain
Race to Witch Mountain is a 2009 Disney science-fiction adventure film about a taxi driver helping two alien siblings with supernatural powers evade government agents and uncover the secrets of their origins.
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C.
Midnight Run
Midnight Run is a mid-distance sled dog race event held in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, often serving as a companion race to the longer UP 200.
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D.
Midnight Run
Midnight Run is a 1988 action-comedy film starring Robert De Niro as a bounty hunter transporting an accountant across the country while being pursued by the FBI and the mob.
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E.
Stakeout
"Stakeout" is a 1987 American buddy-cop comedy thriller film starring Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez as detectives assigned to surveil an escaped convict’s ex-girlfriend.
- 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: Moonlighting Target entity description: Moonlighting is an American television dramedy series from the 1980s, best known for its witty, fast-paced dialogue, genre-blending style, and the star-making role it gave Bruce Willis as a wisecracking private detective.
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A.
Mr. Moonlight
"Mr. Moonlight" is a cover of a bluesy rock and roll song recorded by the Beatles and included on their 1964 album Beatles for Sale.
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B.
Race to Witch Mountain
Race to Witch Mountain is a 2009 Disney science-fiction adventure film about a taxi driver helping two alien siblings with supernatural powers evade government agents and uncover the secrets of their origins.
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C.
Midnight Run
Midnight Run is a mid-distance sled dog race event held in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, often serving as a companion race to the longer UP 200.
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D.
Midnight Run
Midnight Run is a 1988 action-comedy film starring Robert De Niro as a bounty hunter transporting an accountant across the country while being pursued by the FBI and the mob.
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E.
Stakeout
"Stakeout" is a 1987 American buddy-cop comedy thriller film starring Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez as detectives assigned to surveil an escaped convict’s ex-girlfriend.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | television series ⓘ |
| awarded |
Golden Globe Awards
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Primetime Emmy Awards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Agnes DiPesto
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David Addison Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Herbert Viola NERFINISHED ⓘ Maddie Hayes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Al Jarreau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Glenn Gordon Caron NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| executiveProducer | Glenn Gordon Caron NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1985 ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy-drama
ⓘ
detective fiction ⓘ mystery ⓘ romantic comedy ⓘ |
| hasEpisodeFormat | case-of-the-week detective stories ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeDevice |
direct address to the audience
ⓘ
voice-over narration ⓘ |
| influenced | later romantic dramedy television series ⓘ |
| knownFor | star-making role for Bruce Willis ⓘ |
| lastAired | 1989 ⓘ |
| mainSetting | Blue Moon Detective Agency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| network | American Broadcasting Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
breaking the fourth wall
ⓘ
genre-blending style ⓘ romantic tension between leads ⓘ use of metafictional elements ⓘ witty fast-paced dialogue ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 5 ⓘ |
| openingTheme | Moonlighting Theme NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | ABC ⓘ |
| portrays |
Allyce Beasley as Agnes DiPesto
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bruce Willis as David Addison Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Curtis Armstrong as Herbert Viola NERFINISHED ⓘ Cybill Shepherd as Maddie Hayes ⓘ |
| productionCompany | ABC Circle Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| starring |
Allyce Beasley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bruce Willis NERFINISHED ⓘ Curtis Armstrong NERFINISHED ⓘ Cybill Shepherd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| themeMusicPerformer | Al Jarreau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1980s television ⓘ |
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: Moonlighting Description of subject: Moonlighting is an American television dramedy series from the 1980s, best known for its witty, fast-paced dialogue, genre-blending style, and the star-making role it gave Bruce Willis as a wisecracking private detective.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.