Quatermass (1979 television serial)
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Quatermass (1979 television serial) is a British science fiction TV series written by Nigel Kneale that follows Professor Bernard Quatermass investigating a dystopian future threatened by mysterious cosmic forces.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Quatermass (1979 TV serial) | 3 |
| Quatermass (1979 television serial) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8157221 — 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: Quatermass (1979 television serial) Context triple: [Nigel Kneale, notableWork, Quatermass (1979 television serial)]
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Quatermass II
Quatermass II is a 1955 British science-fiction television serial, written by Nigel Kneale for the BBC, that follows Professor Bernard Quatermass as he uncovers a sinister alien infiltration of the British government.
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B.
The Quatermass Xperiment
The Quatermass Xperiment is a 1955 British science fiction horror film, adapted from a BBC television serial, that helped establish Hammer Film Productions’ reputation in genre cinema.
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Quatermass and the Pit (film)
Quatermass and the Pit is a 1967 British science fiction horror film, based on Nigel Kneale’s TV serial, that blends alien invasion themes with psychological terror beneath the London Underground.
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D.
Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin
Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin is a 1976 serial from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, featuring the Fourth Doctor in a political thriller set on Gallifrey that delves into Time Lord lore and mythology.
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Terror of the Autons
Terror of the Autons is a 1971 Doctor Who serial featuring the Third Doctor that introduced the Time Lord villain known as the Master and is notable for its use of the shape-shifting Autons and a darker, more psychological tone.
- 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: Quatermass (1979 television serial) Target entity description: Quatermass (1979 television serial) is a British science fiction TV series written by Nigel Kneale that follows Professor Bernard Quatermass investigating a dystopian future threatened by mysterious cosmic forces.
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A.
Quatermass II
Quatermass II is a 1955 British science-fiction television serial, written by Nigel Kneale for the BBC, that follows Professor Bernard Quatermass as he uncovers a sinister alien infiltration of the British government.
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B.
The Quatermass Xperiment
The Quatermass Xperiment is a 1955 British science fiction horror film, adapted from a BBC television serial, that helped establish Hammer Film Productions’ reputation in genre cinema.
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C.
Quatermass and the Pit (film)
Quatermass and the Pit is a 1967 British science fiction horror film, based on Nigel Kneale’s TV serial, that blends alien invasion themes with psychological terror beneath the London Underground.
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D.
Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin
Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin is a 1976 serial from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, featuring the Fourth Doctor in a political thriller set on Gallifrey that delves into Time Lord lore and mythology.
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E.
Terror of the Autons
Terror of the Autons is a 1971 Doctor Who serial featuring the Third Doctor that introduced the Time Lord villain known as the Master and is notable for its use of the shape-shifting Autons and a darker, more psychological tone.
- 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: Quatermass (1979 television serial) Description of subject: Quatermass (1979 television serial) is a British science fiction TV series written by Nigel Kneale that follows Professor Bernard Quatermass investigating a dystopian future threatened by mysterious cosmic forces.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Quatermass Conclusion (film version of 1979 serial)
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linked to: Quatermass (1979 television serial)
linked to: Quatermass (1979 television serial)