Prescription: Murder
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Prescription: Murder is a 1968 television movie that served as the pilot for the long-running detective series Columbo, introducing Peter Falk’s iconic portrayal of the rumpled, deceptively shrewd homicide lieutenant.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Prescription: Murder canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5338982 — 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: Prescription: Murder Context triple: [Columbo, televisionFilmPilot, Prescription: Murder]
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A.
Murder, He Says
"Murder, He Says" is a 1943 comic swing song made famous by American singer and actress Betty Hutton, known for its rapid-fire lyrics and humorous take on contemporary slang.
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B.
The Capital Punisher
The Capital Punisher is the nickname of Frank Howard, a towering power-hitting Major League Baseball slugger best known for his time with the Washington Senators in the 1960s and early 1970s.
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C.
Perfect Crime
"Perfect Crime" is a fast-paced hard rock song by Guns N' Roses, featured on their 1991 album Use Your Illusion I.
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D.
Getting Away with Murder
"Getting Away with Murder" is a 2004 hard rock/nu metal song by American band Papa Roach, known for its politically charged lyrics and heavy, radio-friendly sound.
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E.
Murder Was the Case
Murder Was the Case is a 1994 hip hop soundtrack album and short film project centered on Snoop Doggy Dogg, featuring various West Coast rap artists and produced by Dr. Dre.
- 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: Prescription: Murder Target entity description: Prescription: Murder is a 1968 television movie that served as the pilot for the long-running detective series Columbo, introducing Peter Falk’s iconic portrayal of the rumpled, deceptively shrewd homicide lieutenant.
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A.
Murder, He Says
"Murder, He Says" is a 1943 comic swing song made famous by American singer and actress Betty Hutton, known for its rapid-fire lyrics and humorous take on contemporary slang.
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B.
The Capital Punisher
The Capital Punisher is the nickname of Frank Howard, a towering power-hitting Major League Baseball slugger best known for his time with the Washington Senators in the 1960s and early 1970s.
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C.
Perfect Crime
"Perfect Crime" is a fast-paced hard rock song by Guns N' Roses, featured on their 1991 album Use Your Illusion I.
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D.
Getting Away with Murder
"Getting Away with Murder" is a 2004 hard rock/nu metal song by American band Papa Roach, known for its politically charged lyrics and heavy, radio-friendly sound.
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E.
Murder Was the Case
Murder Was the Case is a 1994 hip hop soundtrack album and short film project centered on Snoop Doggy Dogg, featuring various West Coast rap artists and produced by Dr. Dre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Columbo pilot
ⓘ
television film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Prescription: Murder (1962 stage play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Harry L. Wolf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| costumeDesignFeature | rumpled raincoat worn by Columbo ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Richard Irving NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Edward M. Abroms NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Dr. Ray Fleming
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Joan Hudson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1968-02-20 ⓘ |
| followedBy | Ransom for a Dead Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format | television movie ⓘ |
| genre |
crime film
ⓘ
detective fiction ⓘ mystery film ⓘ |
| hasColumboTrait |
cat-and-mouse interrogation style
ⓘ
inverted detective story structure ⓘ murderer revealed to audience at beginning ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter | Lieutenant Columbo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadActorPerformance | Peter Falk’s deceptively shrewd characterization of Columbo ⓘ |
| musicBy | Dave Grusin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | introducing Peter Falk’s portrayal of Lieutenant Columbo ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originallyBroadcastAs | NBC World Premiere Movie ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | NBC ⓘ |
| partOf | Columbo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrays | first appearance of Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo ⓘ |
| producer | Richard Irving NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Universal Television NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runtime | 98 minutes ⓘ |
| screenplayBy |
Richard Levinson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
William Link NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| starring |
Gene Barry
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Katherine Justice NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Falk NERFINISHED ⓘ William Windom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer |
Richard Levinson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
William Link NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Prescription: Murder Description of subject: Prescription: Murder is a 1968 television movie that served as the pilot for the long-running detective series Columbo, introducing Peter Falk’s iconic portrayal of the rumpled, deceptively shrewd homicide lieutenant.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.