Sale of the Century (Australian game show)
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Sale of the Century (Australian game show) was a long-running Australian television quiz show where contestants answered general knowledge questions and competed in fast-paced rounds to win cash and luxury prizes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sale of the Century (Australian game show) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8762931 — 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: Sale of the Century (Australian game show) Context triple: [Grundy Television, notableWork, Sale of the Century (Australian game show)]
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A.
Let’s Make a Deal
Let’s Make a Deal is a long-running American television game show where contestants make deals and take risks to win cash and prizes, often by choosing between hidden options.
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B.
The Price Is Right
The Price Is Right is a long-running American television game show where contestants compete by guessing the prices of merchandise to win cash and prizes.
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C.
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (U.S. syndicated version)
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (U.S. syndicated version) is an American quiz show where contestants answer increasingly difficult multiple-choice questions for a chance to win a top cash prize of one million dollars.
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D.
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" is a popular song from the 1956 film musical High Society, known for its witty lyrics about the allure and absurdity of wealth.
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E.
The $100,000 Pyramid
The $100,000 Pyramid is a modern revival of the classic American television game show where contestants and celebrities compete in fast-paced word-association challenges for cash prizes.
- 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: Sale of the Century (Australian game show) Target entity description: Sale of the Century (Australian game show) was a long-running Australian television quiz show where contestants answered general knowledge questions and competed in fast-paced rounds to win cash and luxury prizes.
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A.
Let’s Make a Deal
Let’s Make a Deal is a long-running American television game show where contestants make deals and take risks to win cash and prizes, often by choosing between hidden options.
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B.
The Price Is Right
The Price Is Right is a long-running American television game show where contestants compete by guessing the prices of merchandise to win cash and prizes.
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C.
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (U.S. syndicated version)
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (U.S. syndicated version) is an American quiz show where contestants answer increasingly difficult multiple-choice questions for a chance to win a top cash prize of one million dollars.
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D.
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" is a popular song from the 1956 film musical High Society, known for its witty lyrics about the allure and absurdity of wealth.
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E.
The $100,000 Pyramid
The $100,000 Pyramid is a modern revival of the classic American television game show where contestants and celebrities compete in fast-paced word-association challenges for cash prizes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
quiz show
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television game show ⓘ |
| airedOnChannel | Nine Network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Sale of the Century (US game show) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| broadcastFormat | weekday early evening ⓘ |
| coHost |
Alyce Platt
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Delvene Delaney NERFINISHED ⓘ Jo Bailey NERFINISHED ⓘ Nicki Buckley NERFINISHED ⓘ Victoria Nicolls NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Australia ⓘ |
| endTime | 2001-11-09 ⓘ |
| filmingStudio | GTV-9 Melbourne studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format |
champions can return on subsequent episodes
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contestants answer general knowledge questions for money ⓘ features instant bargain prize purchases during the game ⓘ final round is a speed round of questions ⓘ includes fast-paced question rounds ⓘ |
| genre |
game show
ⓘ
quiz show ⓘ |
| host |
Glenn Ridge
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tony Barber NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location | Melbourne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableContestant |
Carryover champions with large prize totals
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David Poltorak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
high-value prize pool
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long continuous run on Australian television ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | Nine Network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Nine Network programming NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pictureFormat | PAL ⓘ |
| presenter |
Alyce Platt
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Delvene Delaney NERFINISHED ⓘ Glenn Ridge NERFINISHED ⓘ Jana Wendt NERFINISHED ⓘ Jo Bailey NERFINISHED ⓘ Nicki Buckley NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Barber NERFINISHED ⓘ Victoria Nicolls NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| prizes |
cars
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cash ⓘ holidays ⓘ luxury goods ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Grundy Television NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Temptation (Australian game show) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | television studio ⓘ |
| startTime | 1980-07-14 ⓘ |
| typicalRuntime | 30 minutes ⓘ |
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: Sale of the Century (Australian game show) Description of subject: Sale of the Century (Australian game show) was a long-running Australian television quiz show where contestants answered general knowledge questions and competed in fast-paced rounds to win cash and luxury prizes.
Referenced by (1)
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