Sherlock
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Sherlock is a modern television adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the brilliant but eccentric consulting detective in contemporary London.
All labels observed (14)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T335257 — 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: Sherlock Context triple: [Benedict Cumberbatch, notableWork, Sherlock]
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Holmes
Holmes is a common English surname borne by numerous notable figures, including writers, jurists, and fictional characters such as Sherlock Holmes.
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B.
Lie to Me
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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C.
Torchwood
Torchwood is a British science fiction television series that follows a secret organization investigating extraterrestrial and supernatural phenomena in the same universe as Doctor Who.
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D.
Sleuth (1972 film)
Sleuth (1972 film) is a 1972 British mystery thriller directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, renowned for its twist-filled cat-and-mouse game between characters played by Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine.
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E.
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television series that follows the time-traveling adventures of the Doctor, an alien Time Lord who explores the universe in the TARDIS.
- 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: Sherlock Target entity description: Sherlock is a modern television adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the brilliant but eccentric consulting detective in contemporary London.
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A.
Holmes
Holmes is a common English surname borne by numerous notable figures, including writers, jurists, and fictional characters such as Sherlock Holmes.
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B.
Lie to Me
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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C.
Torchwood
Torchwood is a British science fiction television series that follows a secret organization investigating extraterrestrial and supernatural phenomena in the same universe as Doctor Who.
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D.
Sleuth (1972 film)
Sleuth (1972 film) is a 1972 British mystery thriller directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, renowned for its twist-filled cat-and-mouse game between characters played by Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine.
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E.
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television series that follows the time-traveling adventures of the Doctor, an alien Time Lord who explores the universe in the TARDIS.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime drama television series
ⓘ
mystery television series ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | Sherlock Holmes canon ⓘ |
| basedOn | Sherlock Holmes stories ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy | Arthur Conan Doyle ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Mark Gatiss
ⓘ
Steven Moffat ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Dr. Watson
ⓘ
surface form:
Dr. John Watson
Inspector Lestrade ⓘ Jim Moriarty ⓘ Mrs. Hudson ⓘ Holmes ⓘ
surface form:
Mycroft Holmes
Holmes ⓘ
surface form:
Sherlock Holmes
|
| firstAiredInCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| firstAiredOnChannel | BBC One ⓘ |
| format | television series ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
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detective fiction ⓘ mystery ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacterOccupation | consulting detective ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
complex serialized story arcs
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feature-length episodes ⓘ high-functioning sociopath characterization of Sherlock Holmes ⓘ modern-day adaptation of Sherlock Holmes ⓘ use of contemporary technology in detective work ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | BBC One ⓘ |
| portraysEra | 21st-century London ⓘ |
| producedBy |
BBC
ⓘ
Hartswood Films ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
|
| settingTimePeriod | contemporary era ⓘ |
| stars |
Andrew Scott
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Benedict Cumberbatch ⓘ Mark Gatiss ⓘ Martin Freeman ⓘ Rupert Graves ⓘ Una Stubbs ⓘ |
| starsAsCharacter |
Andrew Scott
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surface form:
Andrew Scott as Jim Moriarty
Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes ⓘ Mark Gatiss as Mycroft Holmes ⓘ Martin Freeman as Dr. John Watson ⓘ Rupert Graves as DI Greg Lestrade ⓘ Una Stubbs as Mrs. Hudson ⓘ |
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: Sherlock Description of subject: Sherlock is a modern television adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the brilliant but eccentric consulting detective in contemporary London.
Referenced by (54)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
BBC television series Sherlock
this entity surface form:
Sherlock (TV series)