The Untouchables
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The Untouchables is a classic American crime drama television series from the late 1950s and early 1960s that follows federal agent Eliot Ness and his team as they battle organized crime during Prohibition.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Untouchables canonical | 7 |
| The Untouchables (TV series) | 6 |
| Al Capone in The Untouchables (TV series) | 1 |
| The Untouchables (1959 television series) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10649575 — 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: The Untouchables Context triple: [Don Gordon, notableWork, The Untouchables]
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A.
The Untouchables
The Untouchables is a 1987 crime drama film about federal agent Eliot Ness’s battle against gangster Al Capone during Prohibition-era Chicago.
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B.
Carlito's Way
Carlito's Way is a 1993 crime drama film directed by Brian De Palma, starring Al Pacino as a reformed Puerto Rican gangster trying to escape his violent past in New York City.
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C.
The Mob
The Mob is a 1951 American film noir crime drama starring Broderick Crawford as a tough undercover cop infiltrating a corrupt waterfront underworld.
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D.
La Mafia
La Mafia is a Grammy-winning American band from Houston, Texas, widely recognized for modernizing and popularizing Tejano music with a polished, pop-influenced sound.
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E.
Serpico
Serpico is a 1973 crime drama film based on the true story of NYPD officer Frank Serpico, who exposed widespread police corruption.
- 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: The Untouchables Target entity description: The Untouchables is a classic American crime drama television series from the late 1950s and early 1960s that follows federal agent Eliot Ness and his team as they battle organized crime during Prohibition.
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A.
The Untouchables
The Untouchables is a 1987 crime drama film about federal agent Eliot Ness’s battle against gangster Al Capone during Prohibition-era Chicago.
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B.
Carlito's Way
Carlito's Way is a 1993 crime drama film directed by Brian De Palma, starring Al Pacino as a reformed Puerto Rican gangster trying to escape his violent past in New York City.
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C.
The Mob
The Mob is a 1951 American film noir crime drama starring Broderick Crawford as a tough undercover cop infiltrating a corrupt waterfront underworld.
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D.
La Mafia
La Mafia is a Grammy-winning American band from Houston, Texas, widely recognized for modernizing and popularizing Tejano music with a polished, pop-influenced sound.
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E.
Serpico
Serpico is a 1973 crime drama film based on the true story of NYPD officer Frank Serpico, who exposed widespread police corruption.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | American television series ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Series (Robert Stack) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Untouchables (1957 book)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
memoirs of Eliot Ness NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character | Eliot Ness NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| developer | Quinn Martin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributionFormat | syndication ⓘ |
| executiveProducer | Quinn Martin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresOrganization | The Untouchables (federal squad) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresTheme | battle against organized crime ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1959 ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
police procedural ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | true ⓘ |
| hasFormat | episodic television ⓘ |
| hasMainProtagonist | Eliot Ness NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSpinOffOrRelatedWork | The Untouchables (1987 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme | law versus organized crime ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | real-life Prohibition-era law enforcement ⓘ |
| lastAired | 1963 ⓘ |
| narratedBy | Walter Winchell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCharacter |
Al Capone
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Frank Nitti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
stylized narration by Walter Winchell
ⓘ
violent depiction of gangland crime ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 118 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 4 ⓘ |
| originalChannel | American Broadcasting Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originallyBroadcastIn |
early 1960s
ⓘ
late 1950s ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | ABC ⓘ |
| partOf | American network television history ⓘ |
| pictureFormat | black-and-white ⓘ |
| portrays | Eliot Ness NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portraysOrganization | U.S. Treasury Department agents ⓘ |
| producer | Quinn Martin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Desilu Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runtimePerEpisode | approximately 50 minutes ⓘ |
| setInLocation | Chicago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | Prohibition era ⓘ |
| starring | Robert Stack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeSettingEnd | 1930s ⓘ |
| timeSettingStart | 1920 ⓘ |
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: The Untouchables Description of subject: The Untouchables is a classic American crime drama television series from the late 1950s and early 1960s that follows federal agent Eliot Ness and his team as they battle organized crime during Prohibition.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Agent George Stone
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The Untouchables (TV series)
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The Untouchables (TV series)
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The Untouchables (TV series)
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The Untouchables (1959 television series)
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The Untouchables (TV series)
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Al Capone in The Untouchables (TV series)