Sherlock Holmes (1965 TV series)
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Sherlock Holmes (1965 TV series) is a British television adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories, featuring Douglas Wilmer as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Stock as Dr. Watson.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sherlock Holmes (1964–1968 TV series) | 1 |
| Sherlock Holmes (1965 TV series) canonical | 1 |
| Sherlock Holmes (TV-related work) | 1 |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (TV series) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5854299 — 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: Sherlock Holmes (1965 TV series) Context triple: [James Fox, notableWork, Sherlock Holmes (1965 TV series)]
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A.
Sherlock
Sherlock is a modern television adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the brilliant but eccentric consulting detective in contemporary London.
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B.
BBC Radio Sherlock Holmes series
The BBC Radio Sherlock Holmes series is a long-running audio drama adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories, best known for its faithful scripts and Clive Merrison’s definitive portrayal of Sherlock Holmes.
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C.
Holmes
Holmes is a common English surname borne by numerous notable figures, including writers, jurists, and fictional characters such as Sherlock Holmes.
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D.
Holmes
Holmes is a consumer brand best known for its home comfort products such as fans, heaters, and air purifiers.
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E.
Inspector Morse
Inspector Morse is a British television crime drama series centered on the cerebral and often irascible Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse as he solves complex murder cases in Oxford.
- 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: Sherlock Holmes (1965 TV series) Target entity description: Sherlock Holmes (1965 TV series) is a British television adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories, featuring Douglas Wilmer as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Stock as Dr. Watson.
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A.
Sherlock
Sherlock is a modern television adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the brilliant but eccentric consulting detective in contemporary London.
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B.
BBC Radio Sherlock Holmes series
The BBC Radio Sherlock Holmes series is a long-running audio drama adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories, best known for its faithful scripts and Clive Merrison’s definitive portrayal of Sherlock Holmes.
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C.
Holmes
Holmes is a common English surname borne by numerous notable figures, including writers, jurists, and fictional characters such as Sherlock Holmes.
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D.
Holmes
Holmes is a consumer brand best known for its home comfort products such as fans, heaters, and air purifiers.
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E.
Inspector Morse
Inspector Morse is a British television crime drama series centered on the cerebral and often irascible Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse as he solves complex murder cases in Oxford.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sherlock Holmes television series
ⓘ
television series ⓘ |
| adaptationOf |
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
ⓘ
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes ⓘ The Return of Sherlock Holmes ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Sherlock Holmes stories
ⓘ
works by Arthur Conan Doyle ⓘ |
| character |
Dr. John Watson
ⓘ
linked to:
Dr. Watson
Sherlock Holmes ⓘ
linked to:
Holmes
|
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| depictsFictionalUniverse |
Sherlock Holmes universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Sherlock Holmes stories
|
| distributionFormat | black-and-white television ⓘ |
| endTime | 1968 ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1965 ⓘ |
| follows |
Sherlock Holmes literary canon
ⓘ
linked to:
Sherlock Holmes stories
|
| format | television drama ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
detective fiction ⓘ mystery television series ⓘ |
| hasAudience | adult television audience ⓘ |
| hasGenre | period drama ⓘ |
| hasMainSubject |
crime solving
ⓘ
detective investigation ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
Dr. John Watson
ⓘ
linked to:
Dr. Watson
Sherlock Holmes ⓘ
linked to:
Holmes
|
| hasTitleCharacter |
Sherlock Holmes
ⓘ
linked to:
Holmes
|
| medium | television ⓘ |
| network | BBC One ⓘ |
| notableCastMember |
Douglas Wilmer
ⓘ
Nigel Stock ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 13 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeries | 2 ⓘ |
| originalChannel | BBC One ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | BBC television dramas of the 1960s ⓘ |
| portrays |
Douglas Wilmer as Sherlock Holmes
ⓘ
Nigel Stock as Dr. Watson ⓘ
linked to:
Dr. Watson
|
| producer | BBC ⓘ |
| setting |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
Victorian era ⓘ |
| stars |
Douglas Wilmer
ⓘ
Nigel Stock ⓘ |
| startTime | 1965 ⓘ |
| workLocation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
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: Sherlock Holmes (1965 TV series) Description of subject: Sherlock Holmes (1965 TV series) is a British television adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories, featuring Douglas Wilmer as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Stock as Dr. Watson.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sherlock Holmes (1965 TV series)
linked to: Sherlock Holmes (1965 TV series)
subject linked to:
Arthur Nigel
linked to: Sherlock Holmes (1965 TV series)