Lie to Me

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American television series crime drama television series television series

Lie to Me is an American crime drama television series centered on a deception expert who assists law enforcement by analyzing facial expressions and body language to detect lies.

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All labels observed (12)

Label Occurrences
Lie to Me canonical 26
Lie to Me universe 2
Lie to Me, Season 1 Episode 1 2

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American television series ⓘ
crime drama television series ⓘ
television series ⓘ
audioFormat Dolby Digital 5.1 ⓘ
basedOn research of Paul Ekman ⓘ
characterBasedOn Paul Ekman ⓘ
characterOccupation deception expert ⓘ
psychologist ⓘ
composer Robert Duncan ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
creator Samuel Baum ⓘ
distributor 20th Television ⓘ
endYear 2011 ⓘ
executiveProducer Brian Grazer ⓘ
Samuel Baum ⓘ
filmingLocation Los Angeles, California, United States of America ⓘ
surface form: Los Angeles, California
finalAired 2011-01-31 ⓘ
firstAired 2009-01-21 ⓘ
genre crime drama ⓘ
hasProtagonist Dr. Cal Lightman ⓘ
surface form: Cal Lightman
hasTheme law enforcement consulting ⓘ
microexpressions ⓘ
psychology of lying ⓘ
mainCharacter Dr. Cal Lightman ⓘ
Dr. Gillian Foster ⓘ
Eli Loker ⓘ
Emily Lightman ⓘ
Ria Torres ⓘ
network Fox ⓘ
numberOfEpisodes 48 ⓘ
numberOfSeasons 3 ⓘ
originalLanguage English ⓘ
originallyBroadcastAs network television series ⓘ
originalNetwork Fox ⓘ
pictureFormat 720p HDTV ⓘ
plotSummary A deception expert and his team assist law enforcement by analyzing facial expressions and body language to detect lies. ⓘ
premiereYear 2009 ⓘ
productionCompany Fox Entertainment ⓘ
surface form: 20th Century Fox Television

Imagine Television ⓘ
setting Washington, D.C. ⓘ
starring Brendan Hines ⓘ
Hayley McFarland ⓘ
Jennifer Beals ⓘ
Kelli Williams ⓘ
Mekhi Phifer ⓘ
Monica Raymund ⓘ
Tim Roth ⓘ

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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: Lie to Me
Description of subject: Lie to Me is an American crime drama television series centered on a deception expert who assists law enforcement by analyzing facial expressions and body language to detect lies.

Referenced by (39)

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

Max Martini → notableWork → Lie to Me ⓘ
Brian Grazer → notableWork → Lie to Me ⓘ
Tim Roth → notableWork → Lie to Me ⓘ
Imagine Television → hasNotableWork → Lie to Me ⓘ
Brendan Hines → notableWork → Lie to Me ⓘ
Brendan Hines → notableRole → Lie to Me ⓘ
this entity surface form: Eli Loker in Lie to Me
Eli Loker → appearsIn → Lie to Me ⓘ
Monica Raymund → notableWork → Lie to Me ⓘ
Monica Raymund → characterPortrayedIn → Lie to Me ⓘ
Ria Torres → appearsIn → Lie to Me ⓘ
Ria Torres → appearsInSeason → Lie to Me ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lie to Me season 1
Ria Torres → appearsInSeason → Lie to Me ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lie to Me season 2
Ria Torres → appearsInSeason → Lie to Me ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lie to Me season 3
Ria Torres → firstAppearance → Lie to Me ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lie to Me, season 1 episode 1 "Pilot"
Ria Torres → fictionalUniverse → Lie to Me ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lie to Me universe
Samuel Baum → notableWork → Lie to Me ⓘ
These Days → hasTrack → Lie to Me ⓘ
Josh Singer → notableWork → Lie to Me ⓘ
Josh Singer → wroteForTelevisionSeries → Lie to Me ⓘ
Hayley McFarland → notableWork → Lie to Me ⓘ
Hayley McFarland → appearedIn → Lie to Me ⓘ
Mekhi Phifer → notableWork → Lie to Me ⓘ
Dr. Cal Lightman → appearsIn → Lie to Me ⓘ
Dr. Cal Lightman → firstAppearance → Lie to Me ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lie to Me, Season 1 Episode 1
Dr. Gillian Foster → appearsIn → Lie to Me ⓘ
Dr. Gillian Foster → firstAppearanceInSeries → Lie to Me ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lie to Me, Season 1 Episode 1
Paul Ekman → subjectOf → Lie to Me ⓘ
this entity surface form: TV series Lie to Me (inspiration for main character)
Emily Lightman → appearsIn → Lie to Me ⓘ
Emily Lightman → fictionalUniverse → Lie to Me ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lie to Me universe
Emily Lightman → firstAppearance → Lie to Me ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lie to Me, Season 1
Emily Lightman → basedOnWork → Lie to Me ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lie to Me (TV series)
Abby Brammell → hasActedIn → Lie to Me ⓘ
Kelli Williams → notableWork → Lie to Me ⓘ
Kelli Williams → hasActedIn → Lie to Me ⓘ
Kenny Johnson → televisionSeriesAppearance → Lie to Me ⓘ
Cathy Cahlin Ryan → notableWork → Lie to Me ⓘ
Cathy Cahlin Ryan → appearedIn → Lie to Me ⓘ
Black Atlass → notableWork → Lie to Me ⓘ
this entity surface form: Lie To Me
Daniel Voll → notableWork → Lie to Me ⓘ