Secrets and Lies
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"Secrets and Lies" is an American crime drama television series centered on ordinary people entangled in complex murder investigations.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Secrets and Lies canonical | 3 |
| Secrets & Lies (Australian TV series) | 1 |
| Secrets and Lies (U.S. TV series) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8628685 — 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: Secrets and Lies Context triple: [Brendan Hines, notableWork, Secrets and Lies]
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A.
Secrets & Lies
Secrets & Lies is a 1996 British drama film directed by Mike Leigh that explores family secrets and social class through the story of a white woman who discovers her biological daughter is Black.
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B.
Pack of Lies
Pack of Lies is a stage play by Hugh Whitemore that dramatizes the true story of a suburban British couple whose friends are unmasked as Soviet spies.
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C.
Separate Lies
Separate Lies is a 2005 British drama film, adapted from Nigel Balchin’s novel "A Way Through the Wood," about a seemingly perfect upper-class marriage unraveling after a hit-and-run accident.
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D.
Telling Secrets
Telling Secrets is a memoir by theologian and novelist Frederick Buechner that reflects on his family history, personal struggles, and the role of faith and storytelling in making sense of a broken past.
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E.
Secrets
"Secrets" is a pop-rock song by OneRepublic, written and produced by Ryan Tedder, known for its emotive lyrics and prominent use in films and television.
- 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: Secrets and Lies Target entity description: "Secrets and Lies" is an American crime drama television series centered on ordinary people entangled in complex murder investigations.
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A.
Secrets & Lies
Secrets & Lies is a 1996 British drama film directed by Mike Leigh that explores family secrets and social class through the story of a white woman who discovers her biological daughter is Black.
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B.
Pack of Lies
Pack of Lies is a stage play by Hugh Whitemore that dramatizes the true story of a suburban British couple whose friends are unmasked as Soviet spies.
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C.
Separate Lies
Separate Lies is a 2005 British drama film, adapted from Nigel Balchin’s novel "A Way Through the Wood," about a seemingly perfect upper-class marriage unraveling after a hit-and-run accident.
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D.
Telling Secrets
Telling Secrets is a memoir by theologian and novelist Frederick Buechner that reflects on his family history, personal struggles, and the role of faith and storytelling in making sense of a broken past.
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E.
Secrets
"Secrets" is a pop-rock song by OneRepublic, written and produced by Ryan Tedder, known for its emotive lyrics and prominent use in films and television.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | television series ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | Australian series Secrets & Lies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| audioFormat | 5.1 surround sound ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Australian television series Secrets & Lies
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Secrets & Lies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| broadcastOn | American Broadcasting Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Fil Eisler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Barbie Kligman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developer | Barbie Kligman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Disney–ABC Domestic Television NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| executiveProducer |
Aaron Kaplan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Barbie Kligman NERFINISHED ⓘ Charles McDougall NERFINISHED ⓘ Nathan Mayfield NERFINISHED ⓘ Tim Busfield NERFINISHED ⓘ Todd Harthan NERFINISHED ⓘ Tracey Robertson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
mystery ⓘ |
| hasFormat | television drama series ⓘ |
| hasSeason |
Secrets and Lies season 1
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Secrets and Lies season 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadCharacter | Detective Andrea Cornell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 20 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 2 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originallyAiredAs | anthology crime drama ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | ABC ⓘ |
| originalReleaseEnd | 2016-12-04 ⓘ |
| originalReleaseStart | 2015-03-01 ⓘ |
| pictureFormat | 1080i ⓘ |
| plotFocus | ordinary people entangled in complex murder investigations ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Juliette Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
ABC Studios
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hoodlum Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| season1Protagonist | Ben Crawford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| season1ProtagonistPortrayedBy | Ryan Phillippe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| season2Protagonist | Eric Warner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| season2ProtagonistPortrayedBy | Michael Ealy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Secrets and Lies Description of subject: "Secrets and Lies" is an American crime drama television series centered on ordinary people entangled in complex murder investigations.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Secrets and Lies (U.S. TV series)
this entity surface form:
Secrets & Lies (Australian TV series)