Wheel of Fortune
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Wheel of Fortune is a long-running American television game show in which contestants solve word puzzles to win cash and prizes by spinning a large carnival-style wheel.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wheel of Fortune canonical | 9 |
| Wheel of Fortune (Australian game show) | 1 |
| Wheel of Fortune (syndicated version) | 1 |
| Wheel of Fortune video games | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3819127 — 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: Wheel of Fortune Context triple: [CBS Television Distribution, distributedProgram, Wheel of Fortune]
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A.
The Wheel of Fortune
The Wheel of Fortune is a late 19th-century allegorical painting by Edward Burne-Jones depicting the capricious rise and fall of human fortunes under the turning wheel of fate.
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B.
Family Feud
Family Feud is a long-running American television game show where two families compete by guessing the most popular survey responses to win cash and prizes.
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C.
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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D.
Guess Who
Guess Who is a song by the American rock band Alabama Shakes from their critically acclaimed album "Sound & Color."
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E.
Trichinopoly
Trichinopoly, now commonly known as Tiruchirappalli, is a historic city in Tamil Nadu, India, renowned for its ancient temples and strategic location on the banks of the Kaveri River.
- 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: Wheel of Fortune Target entity description: Wheel of Fortune is a long-running American television game show in which contestants solve word puzzles to win cash and prizes by spinning a large carnival-style wheel.
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A.
The Wheel of Fortune
The Wheel of Fortune is a late 19th-century allegorical painting by Edward Burne-Jones depicting the capricious rise and fall of human fortunes under the turning wheel of fate.
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B.
Family Feud
Family Feud is a long-running American television game show where two families compete by guessing the most popular survey responses to win cash and prizes.
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C.
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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D.
Guess Who
Guess Who is a song by the American rock band Alabama Shakes from their critically acclaimed album "Sound & Color."
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E.
Trichinopoly
Trichinopoly, now commonly known as Tiruchirappalli, is a historic city in Tamil Nadu, India, renowned for its ancient temples and strategic location on the banks of the Kaveri River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American television series
ⓘ
television game show ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Daytime Emmy Awards
ⓘ
surface form:
Daytime Emmy Award
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| basedOn | Hangman ⓘ |
| broadcastFormat | syndicated daily strip ⓘ |
| coHost | Vanna White ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Merv Griffin ⓘ |
| distributor | CBS Media Ventures ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Culver City, California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Culver City, California
Sony Pictures Studios lot ⓘ
surface form:
Sony Pictures Studios
|
| firstAired | 1975-01-06 ⓘ |
| formatFeature |
cash prizes
ⓘ
merchandise prizes ⓘ spinning wheel ⓘ word puzzles ⓘ |
| genre | game show ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | https://www.wheeloffortune.com/ ⓘ |
| hasSegment |
Bonus Round
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Prize Puzzle ⓘ Speed-Up round ⓘ Toss-Up round ⓘ |
| host |
Bob Goen
ⓘ
Chuck Woolery ⓘ Pat Sajak ⓘ Rolf Benirschke NERFINISHED ⓘ Ryan Seacrest ⓘ |
| notableElement |
Bankrupt wedge
ⓘ
Free Play wedge ⓘ Lose a Turn wedge ⓘ Million Dollar wedge ⓘ Vanna White turning letters ⓘ |
| numberOfContestantsPerGame | 3 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork |
CBS
ⓘ
NBC ⓘ Syndication ⓘ |
| prizeType |
cars
ⓘ
cash ⓘ merchandise ⓘ trips ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Columbia TriStar Television
ⓘ
Merv Griffin Enterprises ⓘ Sony Pictures Television (syndication) ⓘ
surface form:
Sony Pictures Television
|
| setFeature |
carnival-style wheel
ⓘ
puzzle board ⓘ |
| spinOff |
Wheel 2000
ⓘ
Wheel of Fortune self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Wheel of Fortune video games
|
| targetAudience | family audience ⓘ |
| themeMusicComposer | Merv Griffin ⓘ |
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: Wheel of Fortune Description of subject: Wheel of Fortune is a long-running American television game show in which contestants solve word puzzles to win cash and prizes by spinning a large carnival-style wheel.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Wheel of Fortune (Australian game show)
this entity surface form:
Wheel of Fortune video games
this entity surface form:
Wheel of Fortune (syndicated version)