Password
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"Password" is a classic American television game show in which contestants and celebrity partners, including Tom Poston, try to guess secret words using one-word clues.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Password canonical | 2 |
| Password Plus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10310771 — 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: Password Context triple: [Tom Poston, notableWork, Password]
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A.
Passwords
Passwords is a 2018 studio album by American folk-rock band Dawes that blends introspective lyrics with polished, melodic rock arrangements.
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B.
PWD
PWD is an FTP command that returns the current working directory on the remote server.
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C.
Inpw
Inpw is the ancient Egyptian name for Anubis, the jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife.
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D.
.pw
.pw is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) on the internet assigned to the Republic of Palau.
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E.
PBK
PBK is the common abbreviation for the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the oldest and one of the most prestigious academic honor societies in the United States recognizing excellence in the liberal arts and sciences.
- 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: Password Target entity description: "Password" is a classic American television game show in which contestants and celebrity partners, including Tom Poston, try to guess secret words using one-word clues.
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A.
Passwords
Passwords is a 2018 studio album by American folk-rock band Dawes that blends introspective lyrics with polished, melodic rock arrangements.
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B.
PWD
PWD is an FTP command that returns the current working directory on the remote server.
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C.
Inpw
Inpw is the ancient Egyptian name for Anubis, the jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife.
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D.
.pw
.pw is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) on the internet assigned to the Republic of Palau.
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E.
PBK
PBK is the common abbreviation for the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the oldest and one of the most prestigious academic honor societies in the United States recognizing excellence in the liberal arts and sciences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | television game show ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Password (US game show) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| award | Daytime Emmy Award nominations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| broadcastFormat | television ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Bob Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalImpact |
became a classic American game show
ⓘ
inspired international adaptations ⓘ |
| distributor |
ABC Television
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
CBS Television NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1961 ⓘ |
| format | contestants and celebrity partners guess secret words ⓘ |
| gameMechanic |
players give one-word clues
ⓘ
teams try to guess a password ⓘ |
| genre | game show ⓘ |
| hasCelebrityGuest | Tom Poston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGameElement |
limited number of clues per word
ⓘ
secret word called the password ⓘ |
| hasParticipant |
celebrity guests
ⓘ
civilian contestants ⓘ |
| hasRevival |
Million Dollar Password
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Password Plus NERFINISHED ⓘ Super Password NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| host | Allen Ludden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | later word-association game shows ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableElement |
celebrity-contestant team play
ⓘ
use of single-word verbal clues ⓘ |
| originalChannelType | broadcast television ⓘ |
| originalNetwork |
ABC
ⓘ
CBS ⓘ |
| originalRunEndDate | 1967-09-15 ⓘ |
| originalRunStartDate | 1961-10-02 ⓘ |
| originalTimeSlot |
daytime television
ⓘ
prime-time television ⓘ |
| producer | Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Goodson-Todman Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scoringMethod | points for correctly guessing the password ⓘ |
| spinOff |
Million Dollar Password
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Password Plus NERFINISHED ⓘ Super Password NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general audience ⓘ |
| typicalTeamComposition | one celebrity and one contestant ⓘ |
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: Password Description of subject: "Password" is a classic American television game show in which contestants and celebrity partners, including Tom Poston, try to guess secret words using one-word clues.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Password Plus