The Mike Douglas Show
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The Mike Douglas Show was a popular American daytime talk show that ran from the 1960s to the early 1980s, featuring celebrity interviews, musical performances, and light entertainment.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Mike Douglas Show canonical | 5 |
| Mike Douglas Show | 1 |
| The Mike Douglas Show (ABC run) | 1 |
| The Mike Douglas Show (appearances) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3973469 — 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: The Mike Douglas Show Context triple: [Group W, producedProgram, The Mike Douglas Show]
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A.
The Carol Burnett Show
The Carol Burnett Show is a landmark American television variety and sketch-comedy series that aired from 1967 to 1978, renowned for its ensemble cast, physical comedy, and influential impact on TV comedy.
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B.
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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C.
Andy Williams Show
The Andy Williams Show was a popular American television variety series of the 1960s and 1970s, hosted by singer Andy Williams and known for its musical performances and family-friendly entertainment.
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D.
The David Letterman Show
The David Letterman Show was an early 1980s NBC daytime talk and variety program hosted by David Letterman that helped establish his offbeat comedic style and cult following.
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E.
The Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr. Show
The Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr. Show was a 1970s American musical variety television series featuring the husband-and-wife singing duo Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr.
- 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: The Mike Douglas Show Target entity description: The Mike Douglas Show was a popular American daytime talk show that ran from the 1960s to the early 1980s, featuring celebrity interviews, musical performances, and light entertainment.
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A.
The Carol Burnett Show
The Carol Burnett Show is a landmark American television variety and sketch-comedy series that aired from 1967 to 1978, renowned for its ensemble cast, physical comedy, and influential impact on TV comedy.
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B.
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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C.
Andy Williams Show
The Andy Williams Show was a popular American television variety series of the 1960s and 1970s, hosted by singer Andy Williams and known for its musical performances and family-friendly entertainment.
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D.
The David Letterman Show
The David Letterman Show was an early 1980s NBC daytime talk and variety program hosted by David Letterman that helped establish his offbeat comedic style and cult following.
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E.
The Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr. Show
The Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr. Show was a 1970s American musical variety television series featuring the husband-and-wife singing duo Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | American television talk show ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
The Mike Douglas Show
ⓘ
surface form:
Mike Douglas Show
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| broadcastMedium | television ⓘ |
| broadcastSchedule | weekdays ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| era |
1960s American television
ⓘ
1970s American television ⓘ early 1980s American television ⓘ |
| featuredGuestType |
comedians
ⓘ
film actors ⓘ musicians ⓘ political figures ⓘ television actors ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Cleveland
ⓘ
surface form:
Cleveland, Ohio
Philadelphia ⓘ
surface form:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
| firstAired | 1961 ⓘ |
| firstAiredOnNetwork | Cleveland, Ohio market ⓘ |
| format |
celebrity interviews
ⓘ
comedy segments ⓘ light entertainment ⓘ musical performances ⓘ |
| genre |
daytime talk show
ⓘ
variety show ⓘ |
| hasHost | Mike Douglas ⓘ |
| hasMainTitleCharacter | Mike Douglas ⓘ |
| hostProfession |
singer
ⓘ
television host ⓘ |
| influenced | later daytime talk shows in the United States ⓘ |
| lastAired | 1982 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
having co-hosts for a week at a time
ⓘ
mixing talk, music, and variety acts ⓘ |
| notableGuest |
John Lennon
ⓘ
Yoko Ono ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork |
Group W
ⓘ
Westinghouse Broadcasting Company ⓘ
surface form:
Westinghouse Broadcasting
syndication ⓘ |
| partOf | American daytime television history ⓘ |
| pictureFormat |
black-and-white (early years)
ⓘ
color television (later years) ⓘ |
| presenter | Mike Douglas ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Westinghouse Broadcasting Company
ⓘ
surface form:
Westinghouse Broadcasting
|
| productionType | syndicated series ⓘ |
| runtimePerEpisode | approximately 90 minutes ⓘ |
| targetAudience | daytime television viewers ⓘ |
| typicalContent |
audience interaction
ⓘ
celebrity chat ⓘ live or lip-synced musical numbers ⓘ |
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: The Mike Douglas Show Description of subject: The Mike Douglas Show was a popular American daytime talk show that ran from the 1960s to the early 1980s, featuring celebrity interviews, musical performances, and light entertainment.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Mike Douglas Show (appearances)
this entity surface form:
The Mike Douglas Show (ABC run)
this entity surface form:
Mike Douglas Show