Cannon
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crime drama television series
fictional private detective
television film
television series
television theme music
"Cannon" is a 1970s American television crime drama series centered on the cases of a tough, overweight private detective named Frank Cannon.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cannon canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11343612 — 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: Cannon Context triple: [Veronica Hamel, appearedIn, Cannon]
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A.
Cannon
Cannon is a historic American textile and home goods brand best known for its towels, bedding, and other household linens.
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B.
Cannon
Cannon is a common English surname borne by various notable individuals across entertainment, sports, and public life.
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C.
The Cannon
The Cannon is the ring nickname of Shannon Briggs, an American heavyweight boxer and former world champion known for his punching power and outspoken personality.
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D.
Cannons
Cannons was the lavish early-18th-century English country house and estate built for James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, renowned for its opulence and association with composer George Frideric Handel.
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E.
Fussilat
Fussilat is the 41st chapter of the Qur’an, known for its detailed exposition of divine revelation, signs in creation, and the consequences of accepting or rejecting the message.
- 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: Cannon Target entity description: "Cannon" is a 1970s American television crime drama series centered on the cases of a tough, overweight private detective named Frank Cannon.
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A.
Cannon
Cannon is a common English surname borne by various notable individuals across entertainment, sports, and public life.
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B.
Cannon
Cannon is a historic American textile and home goods brand best known for its towels, bedding, and other household linens.
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C.
The Cannon
The Cannon is the ring nickname of Shannon Briggs, an American heavyweight boxer and former world champion known for his punching power and outspoken personality.
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D.
Cannons
Cannons was the lavish early-18th-century English country house and estate built for James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, renowned for its opulence and association with composer George Frideric Handel.
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E.
Fussilat
Fussilat is the 41st chapter of the Qur’an, known for its detailed exposition of divine revelation, signs in creation, and the consequences of accepting or rejecting the message.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime drama television series
ⓘ
fictional private detective ⓘ television film ⓘ television series ⓘ television series ⓘ television theme music ⓘ |
| airedOn | CBS prime time schedule ⓘ |
| audioFormat | mono ⓘ |
| basedOn | original characters by Edward Hume ⓘ |
| broadcastFormat | network television ⓘ |
| characteristic |
features an overweight private detective
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protagonist is a former LAPD officer ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Edward Hume NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developer | Quinn Martin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | CBS Television Distribution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| executiveProducer | Quinn Martin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuredCrossoverWith | Barnaby Jones GENERATED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1971 ⓘ |
| formerOccupation | LAPD officer ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
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detective fiction ⓘ |
| hasEpisodeRuntime | approximately 48 minutes ⓘ |
| hasFormat | case-of-the-week ⓘ |
| hasOpeningTheme | Cannon Theme NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasProtagonistTrait |
lives in Los Angeles
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resourceful ⓘ tough ⓘ |
| hasSpinOff | Barnaby Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lastAired | 1976 ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Frank Cannon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | one of the first network series with an overweight action lead ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 122 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 5 ⓘ |
| occupation | private detective ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originallyAiredOnDay | Tuesday night (various seasons) ⓘ |
| originallyBroadcastAs | hour-long episodes ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | CBS ⓘ |
| pictureFormat | color ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
William Conrad
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
William Conrad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Cannon (1971 television film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Quinn Martin Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 1970s ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult viewers ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfPopularity | early 1970s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Cannon Description of subject: "Cannon" is a 1970s American television crime drama series centered on the cases of a tough, overweight private detective named Frank Cannon.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.