Quiz Show
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Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical drama film directed by Robert Redford that explores the scandal surrounding rigged television game shows in the 1950s.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Quiz Show canonical | 18 |
| Academy Award for Quiz Show | 1 |
| Jeopardy | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5696947 — 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: Quiz Show Context triple: [Robert Redford, notableWork, Quiz Show]
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A.
Jeopardy!
Jeopardy! is a long-running American television quiz show known for its distinctive answer-and-question format and iconic host Alex Trebek.
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B.
Call My Bluff
"Call My Bluff" is a track by rapper Pusha T, featuring Jay-Z and Pharrell Williams, from his critically acclaimed album "It's Almost Dry."
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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.
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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E.
The Quiz Broadcast
The Quiz Broadcast is a surreal, post-apocalyptic game show sketch from the British comedy duo Mitchell and Webb, known for its absurd rules and catchphrase “Remain Indoors.”
- 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: Quiz Show Target entity description: Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical drama film directed by Robert Redford that explores the scandal surrounding rigged television game shows in the 1950s.
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A.
Jeopardy!
Jeopardy! is a long-running American television quiz show known for its distinctive answer-and-question format and iconic host Alex Trebek.
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B.
Call My Bluff
"Call My Bluff" is a track by rapper Pusha T, featuring Jay-Z and Pharrell Williams, from his critically acclaimed album "It's Almost Dry."
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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.
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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E.
The Quiz Broadcast
The Quiz Broadcast is a surreal, post-apocalyptic game show sketch from the British comedy duo Mitchell and Webb, known for its absurd rules and catchphrase “Remain Indoors.”
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | television quiz show scandals of the 1950s ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Michael Ballhaus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Mark Isham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Robert Redford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discusses |
ethics in television
ⓘ
media manipulation ⓘ |
| distributor | Buena Vista Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Stu Linder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | Twenty-One quiz show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
historical drama ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
game show rigging
ⓘ
television quiz show scandals ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
ⓘ
Academy Award for Best Director ⓘ Academy Award for Best Picture ⓘ Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrays |
Charles Van Doren
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dan Enright NERFINISHED ⓘ Herb Stempel NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Goodwin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereEvent | Venice Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Julian Krainin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael Jacobs NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Nozik NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Redford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Hollywood Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1994 ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1994-09-14 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 133 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Paul Attanasio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 1950s ⓘ |
| starredActor |
Christopher McDonald
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David Paymer NERFINISHED ⓘ Hank Azaria NERFINISHED ⓘ John Turturro NERFINISHED ⓘ Mira Sorvino NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Scofield NERFINISHED ⓘ Ralph Fiennes NERFINISHED ⓘ Rob Morrow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted | Eisenhower era 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: Quiz Show Description of subject: Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical drama film directed by Robert Redford that explores the scandal surrounding rigged television game shows in the 1950s.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jeopardy
this entity surface form:
Academy Award for Quiz Show