The Sweeney
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The Sweeney is a 1970s British television crime drama series following the tough, unorthodox methods of London’s Flying Squad police unit.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Sweeney canonical | 42 |
| The Sweeney (2012 film) | 4 |
| Sweeney 2 | 2 |
| Sweeney! (1977 film) | 2 |
| The Professionals | 2 |
| The Sweeney (TV series) | 2 |
| Sweeney 2 (1978 film) | 1 |
| Sweeney! (film) | 1 |
| The Sweeney (TV series episodes) | 1 |
| The Sweeney (television episodes) | 1 |
| The Sweeney franchise | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5417348 — 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 Sweeney Context triple: [John Thaw, notableWork, The Sweeney]
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A.
Nine O'Clock Gun
The Nine O'Clock Gun is a historic naval cannon in Vancouver that is fired nightly as a time signal and popular local tradition.
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B.
The Bravados
The Bravados is a 1958 American Western film starring Gregory Peck as a vengeful rancher hunting down a group of escaped convicts.
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C.
Honest John
Honest John is a sly, manipulative fox con artist who deceives Pinocchio in Disney’s adaptation of the classic tale.
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D.
Give 'Em Enough Rope
Give 'Em Enough Rope is the second studio album by English punk rock band The Clash, known for its more polished production and politically charged songs that helped expand their international audience.
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E.
The Last of the Finest
The Last of the Finest is a 1990 American crime-action film about a group of maverick cops who uncover a high-level drug and corruption conspiracy.
- 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 Sweeney Target entity description: The Sweeney is a 1970s British television crime drama series following the tough, unorthodox methods of London’s Flying Squad police unit.
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A.
Nine O'Clock Gun
The Nine O'Clock Gun is a historic naval cannon in Vancouver that is fired nightly as a time signal and popular local tradition.
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B.
The Bravados
The Bravados is a 1958 American Western film starring Gregory Peck as a vengeful rancher hunting down a group of escaped convicts.
-
C.
Honest John
Honest John is a sly, manipulative fox con artist who deceives Pinocchio in Disney’s adaptation of the classic tale.
-
D.
Give 'Em Enough Rope
Give 'Em Enough Rope is the second studio album by English punk rock band The Clash, known for its more polished production and politically charged songs that helped expand their international audience.
-
E.
The Last of the Finest
The Last of the Finest is a 1990 American crime-action film about a group of maverick cops who uncover a high-level drug and corruption conspiracy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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 Sweeney Description of subject: The Sweeney is a 1970s British television crime drama series following the tough, unorthodox methods of London’s Flying Squad police unit.
Referenced by (59)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Joanna Hancock
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Melanie Hancock
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Jack Regan in The Sweeney (2012 film)
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Jack Regan in The Sweeney (2012 film)
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Jack Regan in The Sweeney (2012 film)
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