Edge of Darkness
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Edge of Darkness is a critically acclaimed 1985 British television drama serial that blends political thriller and environmental conspiracy themes as it follows a detective investigating his daughter’s mysterious murder.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edge of Darkness canonical | 8 |
| Edge of Darkness (1985 BBC television serial) | 1 |
| Edge of Darkness (1985 TV series) | 1 |
| Edge of Darkness (2010 film) | 1 |
| Edge of Darkness episode 1 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3836451 — 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.
Target entity: Edge of Darkness Context triple: [Joanne Whalley, notableWork, Edge of Darkness]
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A.
Door into the Dark
Door into the Dark is a 1969 poetry collection by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney that deepens his exploration of rural life, memory, and identity through richly textured, earthy verse.
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B.
A Darkness More Than Night
A Darkness More Than Night is a crime novel by Michael Connelly that intertwines his recurring characters Harry Bosch and Terry McCaleb in a complex murder investigation.
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C.
Annihilation
Annihilation is a 2018 science fiction horror film, based on Jeff VanderMeer’s novel, that follows a biologist and her team exploring a mysterious and mutating environmental disaster zone.
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D.
Outer Dark
Outer Dark is a bleak and haunting early novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows a woman and her brother through a nightmarish rural American landscape after the abandonment of their incestuous child.
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E.
In the Dark
"In the Dark" is a 1987 studio album by the Grateful Dead that became their biggest commercial success, featuring the hit single "Touch of Grey."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Edge of Darkness Target entity description: Edge of Darkness is a critically acclaimed 1985 British television drama serial that blends political thriller and environmental conspiracy themes as it follows a detective investigating his daughter’s mysterious murder.
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A.
Door into the Dark
Door into the Dark is a 1969 poetry collection by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney that deepens his exploration of rural life, memory, and identity through richly textured, earthy verse.
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B.
A Darkness More Than Night
A Darkness More Than Night is a crime novel by Michael Connelly that intertwines his recurring characters Harry Bosch and Terry McCaleb in a complex murder investigation.
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C.
Annihilation
Annihilation is a 2018 science fiction horror film, based on Jeff VanderMeer’s novel, that follows a biologist and her team exploring a mysterious and mutating environmental disaster zone.
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D.
Outer Dark
Outer Dark is a bleak and haunting early novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows a woman and her brother through a nightmarish rural American landscape after the abandonment of their incestuous child.
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E.
In the Dark
"In the Dark" is a 1987 studio album by the Grateful Dead that became their biggest commercial success, featuring the hit single "Touch of Grey."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British television drama
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conspiracy thriller ⓘ political thriller ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
British Academy Television Award for Best Actor
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surface form:
BAFTA Television Award for Best Actor
British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Serial ⓘ
surface form:
BAFTA Television Award for Best Drama Serial
BAFTA Television Craft Awards ⓘ
surface form:
BAFTA Television Award for Best Film Editor
BAFTA Television Award for Best Original Television Music ⓘ Royal Television Society Award ⓘ
surface form:
Royal Television Society award
|
| castMember |
Bob Peck
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Charles Kay ⓘ Clive Merrison ⓘ
surface form:
Hugh Fraser
Ian McNeice ⓘ Joanne Whalley ⓘ Joe Don Baker ⓘ John Woodvine ⓘ Kenneth Nelson NERFINISHED ⓘ Tim McInnerny NERFINISHED ⓘ Zoë Wanamaker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer |
Eric Clapton
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Michael Kamen ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Troy Kennedy Martin ⓘ |
| criticalReception | critically acclaimed ⓘ |
| describedAs | landmark British television drama ⓘ |
| director | Martin Campbell ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| follows | investigation of a daughter’s murder ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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environmental thriller ⓘ political thriller ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Edge of Darkness
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Edge of Darkness (2010 film)
|
| leadActor | Bob Peck ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Ronald Craven ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | police detective ⓘ |
| notableFor | blend of political thriller and environmental conspiracy ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 6 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeries | 1 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork |
BBC Two
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surface form:
BBC2
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| originalReleaseEnd | 1985-12-09 ⓘ |
| originalReleaseStart | 1985-11-04 ⓘ |
| producer | Michael Wearing ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
BBC television services
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surface form:
BBC Television
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| setInPeriod | 1980s ⓘ |
| theme |
environmentalism
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government conspiracy ⓘ intelligence services ⓘ nuclear power ⓘ |
| writer | Troy Kennedy Martin ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Edge of Darkness Description of subject: Edge of Darkness is a critically acclaimed 1985 British television drama serial that blends political thriller and environmental conspiracy themes as it follows a detective investigating his daughter’s mysterious murder.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.