Sharpe

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Sharpe is a British television drama series based on Bernard Cornwell’s novels, following the adventures of soldier Richard Sharpe during the Napoleonic Wars.

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All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Sharpe canonical 6
Sharpe novel series 2
Sharpe (TV series) 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf British television series
television drama series
adaptationOf historical novels
basedOn Sharpe self-linksurface differs
surface form: Sharpe novel series

novels by Bernard Cornwell
broadcastOn ITV
surface form: ITV in the United Kingdom
characterPortrayed Richard Sharpe
surface form: Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe
chronologicalScope Peninsular War
Waterloo Campaign
surface form: Waterloo campaign
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
debutDecade 1990s
distributor ITV Studios
filmingLocation England
Portugal
Turkey
Ukraine
firstBroadcastYear 1993
format television film series
genre adventure television series
historical drama
war drama
hasFanBase international audience
hasSpinOffMedia DVD releases
novel tie-ins
leadCharacterNationality British
leadCharacterRegiment 95th Rifles
mainCharacter Richard Sharpe
medium television
narrativeFocus military campaigns of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars
notableBattleDepicted Battle of Talavera
Battle of Waterloo
numberOfEpisodes 16
numberOfTVFilms 16
originalLanguage English
originalNetwork ITV
pictureFormat colour
productionCompany Central Independent Television
Picture Palace
protagonistOccupation British Army officer
protagonistRank rifle officer
relatedWork Sharpe novel series by Bernard Cornwell
runtimePerEpisode approximately 100 minutes
settingPeriod Napoleonic Wars
starredActor Sean Bean
targetAudience adult viewers
theme class and social mobility
military heroism
war and loyalty

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: Sharpe
Description of subject: Sharpe is a British television drama series based on Bernard Cornwell’s novels, following the adventures of soldier Richard Sharpe during the Napoleonic Wars.

Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sean Bean notableWork Sharpe
Bean notableWork Sharpe
subject surface form: Sean Bean
Sharpe basedOn Sharpe self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Sharpe novel series
Richard Sharpe fictionalUniverse Sharpe
this entity surface form: Sharpe novel series
Richard Sharpe literarySeries Sharpe
this entity surface form: Sharpe series
Tom Sharp familyName Sharpe
subject surface form: Tom Sharpe
Michael Byrne notableWork Sharpe
this entity surface form: Sharpe (TV series)