Vega$
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Vega$ is a television role played by American actor Robert Urich, best known for his work in popular TV series during the 1970s and 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vega$ canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8439504 — 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: Vega$ Context triple: [Robert Urich, notableWork, Vega$]
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A.
Yle Vega
Yle Vega is a Finnish Swedish-language radio channel operated by the national public broadcaster Yleisradio (Yle), offering news, culture, and entertainment programming.
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B.
Vega
Vega is a European small-lift launch vehicle developed by the European Space Agency and partners, primarily used to place light payloads into low Earth orbit.
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C.
Vega
Vega is a common Spanish surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as entertainment, sports, and politics.
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D.
Vega
Vega is a residential locality in Haninge Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden, known for its commuter rail station and growing suburban housing developments.
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E.
Vega 2
Vega 2 was a Soviet space probe launched in 1984 that conducted flybys of Venus and Halley’s Comet, studying their atmospheres and environments as part of the Vega program.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vega$ Target entity description: Vega$ is a television role played by American actor Robert Urich, best known for his work in popular TV series during the 1970s and 1980s.
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A.
Yle Vega
Yle Vega is a Finnish Swedish-language radio channel operated by the national public broadcaster Yleisradio (Yle), offering news, culture, and entertainment programming.
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B.
Vega
Vega is a European small-lift launch vehicle developed by the European Space Agency and partners, primarily used to place light payloads into low Earth orbit.
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C.
Vega
Vega is a common Spanish surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as entertainment, sports, and politics.
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D.
Vega
Vega is a residential locality in Haninge Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden, known for its commuter rail station and growing suburban housing developments.
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E.
Vega 2
Vega 2 was a Soviet space probe launched in 1984 that conducted flybys of Venus and Halley’s Comet, studying their atmospheres and environments as part of the Vega program.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | television series ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Vega$ (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| broadcastCountry | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| broadcastFormat | one-hour episodes ⓘ |
| character | Dan Tanna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | Michael Mann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distribution | network television broadcast ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Las Vegas, Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1978 ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
detective fiction ⓘ |
| hasFictionalUniverse | contemporary Las Vegas crime world ⓘ |
| hasOpeningThemeStyle | instrumental television theme music ⓘ |
| hasTheme | crime investigation in Las Vegas ⓘ |
| lastAired | 1981 ⓘ |
| leadActor | Robert Urich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadActorNationality | American ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Dan Tanna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainProfessionOfProtagonist | private detective ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| network | ABC ⓘ |
| notableSettingFeature |
Desert Inn hotel
GENERATED
ⓘ
Las Vegas Strip casinos GENERATED ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 69 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 3 ⓘ |
| originalChannel | American Broadcasting Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalRunEndDate | June 3, 1981 ⓘ |
| originalRunStartDate | September 20, 1978 ⓘ |
| pictureFormat | color ⓘ |
| producedBy |
Aaron Spelling
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spelling-Goldberg Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Spelling-Goldberg Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistEmployer | self-employed ⓘ |
| setIn | Las Vegas, Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring | Robert Urich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult viewers ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting |
early 1980s
ⓘ
late 1970s ⓘ |
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: Vega$ Description of subject: Vega$ is a television role played by American actor Robert Urich, best known for his work in popular TV series during the 1970s and 1980s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.