True Detective
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anthology series
crime drama television series
neo-noir television series
television season
television series
True Detective is a critically acclaimed HBO anthology crime drama series known for its dark, atmospheric storytelling and complex, character-driven investigations.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T865948 — 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: True Detective Context triple: [HBO, notableWork, True Detective]
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A.
Mr. Robot
Mr. Robot is a critically acclaimed psychological thriller television series about a socially anxious hacker drawn into an underground cyber-activist group.
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B.
Mindhunters
Mindhunters is a 2004 psychological thriller film about FBI profiler trainees trapped on a remote island with a serial killer who begins murdering them one by one.
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C.
Quantico
Quantico is a small town in Prince William County, Virginia, best known for hosting the Marine Corps Base Quantico and several major U.S. federal law enforcement training facilities.
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The Devil All the Time
The Devil All the Time is a 2020 American psychological thriller film, based on Donald Ray Pollock’s novel, that weaves together violent, gothic tales of faith, corruption, and trauma in mid-20th-century rural Ohio and West Virginia.
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E.
The Pale Blue Eye
The Pale Blue Eye is a 2022 gothic mystery film that follows a detective investigating murders at West Point with the help of a young Edgar Allan Poe.
- 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: True Detective Target entity description: True Detective is a critically acclaimed HBO anthology crime drama series known for its dark, atmospheric storytelling and complex, character-driven investigations.
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A.
Mr. Robot
Mr. Robot is a critically acclaimed psychological thriller television series about a socially anxious hacker drawn into an underground cyber-activist group.
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B.
Mindhunters
Mindhunters is a 2004 psychological thriller film about FBI profiler trainees trapped on a remote island with a serial killer who begins murdering them one by one.
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C.
Quantico
Quantico is a small town in Prince William County, Virginia, best known for hosting the Marine Corps Base Quantico and several major U.S. federal law enforcement training facilities.
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D.
The Devil All the Time
The Devil All the Time is a 2020 American psychological thriller film, based on Donald Ray Pollock’s novel, that weaves together violent, gothic tales of faith, corruption, and trauma in mid-20th-century rural Ohio and West Virginia.
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E.
The Pale Blue Eye
The Pale Blue Eye is a 2022 gothic mystery film that follows a detective investigating murders at West Point with the help of a young Edgar Allan Poe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anthology series
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crime drama television series ⓘ neo-noir television series ⓘ television season ⓘ television season ⓘ television season ⓘ television season ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | Nic Pizzolatto ⓘ |
| director | Cary Joji Fukunaga ⓘ |
| distributor | Warner Bros. Discovery ⓘ |
| executiveProducer |
Cary Joji Fukunaga
ⓘ
Matthew McConaughey ⓘ Nic Pizzolatto ⓘ Woody Harrelson ⓘ |
| firstAired | 2014-01-12 ⓘ |
| genre |
anthology
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crime drama ⓘ mystery ⓘ psychological thriller ⓘ |
| hasSeason |
True Detective
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
True Detective season 1
True Detective self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
True Detective season 2
True Detective self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
True Detective season 3
True Detective self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
True Detective: Night Country
|
| hasTheme |
corruption
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existentialism ⓘ morality ⓘ philosophical pessimism ⓘ trauma ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
atmospheric cinematography
ⓘ
nonlinear narrative structure ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 32 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 4 ⓘ |
| originalChannel | HBO ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | HBO ⓘ |
| originalReleaseStartYear | 2014 ⓘ |
| productionCompany | HBO ⓘ |
| setting |
Alaska
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Alaska ⓘ Arkansas ⓘ Arkansas ⓘ California, United States ⓘ
surface form:
California
California, United States ⓘ
surface form:
California
Louisiana ⓘ Louisiana ⓘ |
| showrunner | Issa López ⓘ |
| starring |
Colin Farrell
ⓘ
Jodie Foster ⓘ Kali Reis ⓘ Mahershala Ali ⓘ Matthew McConaughey ⓘ Rachel McAdams ⓘ Stephen Dorff ⓘ Vince Vaughn ⓘ Woody Harrelson ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: True Detective Description of subject: True Detective is a critically acclaimed HBO anthology crime drama series known for its dark, atmospheric storytelling and complex, character-driven investigations.
Referenced by (62)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mahershala Ali
subject surface form:
Wayne Hays
subject surface form:
Wayne Hays
this entity surface form:
True Detective season 3
subject surface form:
Wayne Hays
this entity surface form:
True Detective season 3, episode 1
subject surface form:
Woody Harrelson
this entity surface form:
True Detective season 1
this entity surface form:
True Detective episode "The Long Bright Dark"