CONTROL
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CONTROL is the fictional secret U.S. intelligence agency in the comedy television series "Get Smart," serving as the employer of bumbling spy Maxwell Smart.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CONTROL canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6162131 — 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: CONTROL Context triple: [Get Smart, featuresOrganization, CONTROL]
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A.
Control
Control is Janet Jackson's breakthrough 1986 studio album that established her as a major pop and R&B star through its assertive themes and innovative production.
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B.
Control
Control is the enigmatic and ailing former chief of British intelligence in John le Carré’s "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," whose downfall and suspicions about a Soviet mole set the novel’s events in motion.
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C.
Control
"Control" is the second studio album by American pop group Dream Street, showcasing their teen pop sound in the early 2000s.
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D.
Control
Control is a 2007 black-and-white biographical film directed by Anton Corbijn that portrays the life and tragic death of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis.
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E.
Control Movement
"Control Movement" is a dark, industrial-tinged techno track by French electronic producer Gesaffelstein, known for its menacing atmosphere and minimalist, hard-hitting sound.
- 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: CONTROL Target entity description: CONTROL is the fictional secret U.S. intelligence agency in the comedy television series "Get Smart," serving as the employer of bumbling spy Maxwell Smart.
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A.
Control
Control is the enigmatic and ailing former chief of British intelligence in John le Carré’s "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," whose downfall and suspicions about a Soviet mole set the novel’s events in motion.
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B.
Control
Control is a 2007 black-and-white biographical film directed by Anton Corbijn that portrays the life and tragic death of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis.
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C.
Control
Control is Janet Jackson's breakthrough 1986 studio album that established her as a major pop and R&B star through its assertive themes and innovative production.
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D.
Control
"Control" is the second studio album by American pop group Dream Street, showcasing their teen pop sound in the early 2000s.
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E.
Control Movement
"Control Movement" is a dark, industrial-tinged techno track by French electronic producer Gesaffelstein, known for its menacing atmosphere and minimalist, hard-hitting sound.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional intelligence agency
ⓘ
fictional organization ⓘ television fictional entity ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Get Smart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Agent 99
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hymie the Robot NERFINISHED ⓘ Larabee NERFINISHED ⓘ Maxwell Smart NERFINISHED ⓘ The Chief NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| employsFictionalCharacter |
Agent 86
NERFINISHED
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Agent 99 NERFINISHED ⓘ Hymie the Robot NERFINISHED ⓘ Larabee NERFINISHED ⓘ Maxwell Smart NERFINISHED ⓘ The Chief NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalCountry | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalJurisdiction | U.S. government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalRivalOrganization | KAOS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceWork | Get Smart (1965 TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
spy fiction ⓘ |
| hasAbbreviationStyleName | CONTROL (all caps) ⓘ |
| hasFictionalFunction |
counter-espionage
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intelligence gathering ⓘ national security ⓘ |
| hasFictionalTechnology |
Cone of Silence
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
various spy gadgets ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | real-world intelligence agencies ⓘ |
| inUniverseLocation | Washington, D.C. (often implied) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | television series ⓘ |
| narrativePurpose | comic portrayal of espionage work ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
employer of Maxwell Smart
ⓘ
protagonist organization ⓘ |
| opposesOrganization | KAOS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalNetworkOfSeries |
CBS
NERFINISHED
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NBC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise | Get Smart franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingType | government agency ⓘ |
| targetAudience | television viewers ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfPrimaryDepiction | Cold War era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tone | parody of real intelligence agencies ⓘ |
| workTypeContext | American sitcom ⓘ |
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: CONTROL Description of subject: CONTROL is the fictional secret U.S. intelligence agency in the comedy television series "Get Smart," serving as the employer of bumbling spy Maxwell Smart.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.