What’s My Line?
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What’s My Line? was a long-running American television game show in which celebrity panelists tried to guess the occupations or identities of mystery guests through yes-or-no questions.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| What's My Line? | 4 |
| What’s My Line? canonical | 1 |
| What’s My Line? (syndicated version) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2273273 — 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)
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Target entity: What’s My Line? Context triple: [Bennett Cerf, participantIn, What’s My Line?]
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A.
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" is a popular song from the 1956 film musical High Society, known for its witty lyrics about the allure and absurdity of wealth.
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B.
The Pat Sajak Show
The Pat Sajak Show was a short-lived late-night talk show hosted by Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak that aired on CBS in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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C.
"The Show"
"The Show" is the tagline used to promote and encapsulate the experience of the Telluride Film Festival, emphasizing its focus on cinematic presentation and spectacle.
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D.
The Garry Moore Show
The Garry Moore Show was a popular American television variety series of the 1950s and 1960s known for its comedy sketches, musical performances, and for helping launch the career of Carol Burnett.
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E.
The $100,000 Pyramid
The $100,000 Pyramid is a modern revival of the classic American television game show where contestants and celebrities compete in fast-paced word-association challenges for cash prizes.
- 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: What’s My Line? Target entity description: What’s My Line? was a long-running American television game show in which celebrity panelists tried to guess the occupations or identities of mystery guests through yes-or-no questions.
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A.
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" is a popular song from the 1956 film musical High Society, known for its witty lyrics about the allure and absurdity of wealth.
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B.
The Pat Sajak Show
The Pat Sajak Show was a short-lived late-night talk show hosted by Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak that aired on CBS in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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C.
"The Show"
"The Show" is the tagline used to promote and encapsulate the experience of the Telluride Film Festival, emphasizing its focus on cinematic presentation and spectacle.
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D.
The Garry Moore Show
The Garry Moore Show was a popular American television variety series of the 1950s and 1960s known for its comedy sketches, musical performances, and for helping launch the career of Carol Burnett.
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E.
The $100,000 Pyramid
The $100,000 Pyramid is a modern revival of the classic American television game show where contestants and celebrities compete in fast-paced word-association challenges for cash prizes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
panel game show
ⓘ
television game show ⓘ |
| announcer |
Hal Simms
ⓘ
Johnny Olson ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Primetime Emmy Award for Best Quiz or Audience Participation Show ⓘ |
| broadcastFormat | live television ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator |
Bill Todman
ⓘ
Mark Goodson ⓘ |
| culturalStatus | classic American television game show ⓘ |
| distributor |
CBS television network
ⓘ
surface form:
CBS Television
|
| filmingLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1950-02-02 ⓘ |
| format | celebrity panel guesses occupations or identities of mystery guests ⓘ |
| genre |
game show
ⓘ
panel show ⓘ |
| hostRole | moderated questions and maintained game rules ⓘ |
| influenced |
I've Got a Secret
ⓘ
To Tell the Truth ⓘ modern panel game shows ⓘ |
| lastAired | 1967-09-03 ⓘ |
| notableMysteryGuest |
Elizabeth Taylor
ⓘ
Frank Sinatra ⓘ Salvador Dalí ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | over 800 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 17 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | CBS ⓘ |
| originalTimeSlot | Sunday night prime time ⓘ |
| panelComposition | four celebrity panelists ⓘ |
| panelGoal | identify contestant's line of work or identity before losing all cards ⓘ |
| pictureFormat | black-and-white ⓘ |
| primaryHost | John Charles Daly ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions ⓘ |
| questionFormat | yes-or-no questions ⓘ |
| regularPanelist |
Arlene Francis
ⓘ
Bennett Cerf ⓘ Dorothy Kilgallen ⓘ Fred Allen ⓘ Steve Allen ⓘ |
| ruleElement | fixed number of allowed negative answers before game ended ⓘ |
| signatureElement | chalkboard for contestants to write their names ⓘ |
| signatureProp | blindfolds for panel during mystery guest segment ⓘ |
| spinOff | Syndicated version of What's My Line? (1968–1975) ⓘ |
| themeMusic | organ-based opening and closing themes ⓘ |
| typicalSegment | mystery guest round featuring a famous person ⓘ |
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: What’s My Line? Description of subject: What’s My Line? was a long-running American television game show in which celebrity panelists tried to guess the occupations or identities of mystery guests through yes-or-no questions.
Referenced by (6)
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What's My Line?
this entity surface form:
What's My Line?
this entity surface form:
What’s My Line? (syndicated version)
this entity surface form:
What's My Line?
this entity surface form:
What's My Line?