Blackout (game show)
E1044878
Blackout is a short-lived late-1980s American television game show that challenged contestants to guess words and phrases from partially censored audio clues.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Blackout (game show) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13517448 — 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: Blackout (game show) Context triple: [Jay Wolpert, notableWork, Blackout (game show)]
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A.
Television Knockout
Television Knockout is a brand name likely associated with high-impact, attention-grabbing television content or services.
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B.
Tipping Point (game show)
Tipping Point is a British television game show in which contestants answer quiz questions to win counters that they drop into a large coin-pusher style machine to compete for cash prizes.
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C.
Battle of the Bands
Battle of the Bands is a competitive live music event where multiple bands perform to win judges’ or audience approval, often featured as a climactic contest in rock and youth culture stories.
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D.
Quiz Show
Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical drama film directed by Robert Redford that explores the scandal surrounding rigged television game shows in the 1950s.
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E.
Street Jeopardy
"Street Jeopardy" is a song featured on the album "The Carnival" by Wyclef Jean.
- 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: Blackout (game show) Target entity description: Blackout is a short-lived late-1980s American television game show that challenged contestants to guess words and phrases from partially censored audio clues.
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A.
Television Knockout
Television Knockout is a brand name likely associated with high-impact, attention-grabbing television content or services.
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B.
Tipping Point (game show)
Tipping Point is a British television game show in which contestants answer quiz questions to win counters that they drop into a large coin-pusher style machine to compete for cash prizes.
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C.
Battle of the Bands
Battle of the Bands is a competitive live music event where multiple bands perform to win judges’ or audience approval, often featured as a climactic contest in rock and youth culture stories.
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D.
Quiz Show
Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical drama film directed by Robert Redford that explores the scandal surrounding rigged television game shows in the 1950s.
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E.
Street Jeopardy
"Street Jeopardy" is a song featured on the album "The Carnival" by Wyclef Jean.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American game show
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television game show ⓘ |
| airedAfter | The Price Is Right NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| airedOpposite |
Sale of the Century
NERFINISHED
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Super Password NERFINISHED ⓘ Win, Lose or Draw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| audioFormat | mono ⓘ |
| broadcastSchedule | weekday daytime ⓘ |
| cameraSetup | multi-camera ⓘ |
| contestantTeams | civilian contestants paired with celebrities ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Jay Wolpert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developedAsReplacementFor | The $25,000 Pyramid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | CBS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | late 1980s ⓘ |
| filmingStudio | CBS Television City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | The $25,000 Pyramid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format |
panel game
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word game ⓘ |
| gameplayFeature |
audio clues were partially censored
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contestants guessed words and phrases ⓘ included a bonus round ⓘ opponents could censor key words from clues ⓘ |
| genre | game show ⓘ |
| hasThemeMusicBy | Chip Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| host | Bob Goen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laterReplacedBy | The $25,000 Pyramid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location | Hollywood, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| network | CBS ⓘ |
| notableCelebrityPanelists |
Charles Nelson Reilly
GENERATED
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Jay Leno GENERATED ⓘ Jo Anne Worley GENERATED ⓘ Nipsey Russell GENERATED ⓘ Vicki Lawrence GENERATED ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 65 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 1 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originallyAiredOn | CBS daytime schedule ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | CBS ⓘ |
| originalRunEndDate | 1988-04-01 ⓘ |
| originalRunStartDate | 1988-01-04 ⓘ |
| pictureFormat |
NTSC color television standard
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surface form:
NTSC
|
| precededBy | The $25,000 Pyramid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| presenter | Bob Goen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Jay Wolpert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
CBS Entertainment Productions
NERFINISHED
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Jay Wolpert Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runtimePerEpisode | 30 minutes ⓘ |
| status | short-lived ⓘ |
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: Blackout (game show) Description of subject: Blackout is a short-lived late-1980s American television game show that challenged contestants to guess words and phrases from partially censored audio clues.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.