Occasional Wife
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Occasional Wife is a 1960s American sitcom about a bachelor who enlists a woman to pose as his wife to advance his career, leading to comedic complications.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Occasional Wife canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6560338 — 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: Occasional Wife Context triple: [Josie Lloyd, appearedIn, Occasional Wife]
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A.
The Unsuspecting Wife
"The Unsuspecting Wife" is a 1945 mystery novel by American author Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, known for its tense psychological suspense and domestic crime plot.
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B.
The Provoked Wife
The Provoked Wife is a late 17th-century Restoration comedy play by John Vanbrugh, known for its sharp wit and exploration of marriage and female agency.
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C.
The Five Wives
The Five Wives are a group of captive women in Mad Max: Fury Road who serve as the tyrant Immortan Joe’s prized breeders and become central to Imperator Furiosa’s rebellion.
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D.
Diary of a Mad Housewife
Diary of a Mad Housewife is a 1970 satirical drama film that explores the frustrations of a disillusioned New York housewife trapped in an unhappy marriage and affair.
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E.
A Letter to Five Wives
A Letter to Five Wives is the original source work that inspired the classic 1949 film "A Letter to Three Wives."
- 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: Occasional Wife Target entity description: Occasional Wife is a 1960s American sitcom about a bachelor who enlists a woman to pose as his wife to advance his career, leading to comedic complications.
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A.
The Unsuspecting Wife
"The Unsuspecting Wife" is a 1945 mystery novel by American author Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, known for its tense psychological suspense and domestic crime plot.
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B.
The Provoked Wife
The Provoked Wife is a late 17th-century Restoration comedy play by John Vanbrugh, known for its sharp wit and exploration of marriage and female agency.
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C.
The Five Wives
The Five Wives are a group of captive women in Mad Max: Fury Road who serve as the tyrant Immortan Joe’s prized breeders and become central to Imperator Furiosa’s rebellion.
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D.
Diary of a Mad Housewife
Diary of a Mad Housewife is a 1970 satirical drama film that explores the frustrations of a disillusioned New York housewife trapped in an unhappy marriage and affair.
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E.
A Letter to Five Wives
A Letter to Five Wives is the original source work that inspired the classic 1949 film "A Letter to Three Wives."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | television series ⓘ |
| actor |
Bryan O'Byrne
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jack Collins NERFINISHED ⓘ Joan Tompkins NERFINISHED ⓘ Stuart Margolin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Earl
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Max Brahms NERFINISHED ⓘ Mrs. Brahms NERFINISHED ⓘ Susie NERFINISHED ⓘ The Man-in-the-Middle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBroadcast | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdForNetwork | NBC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| decadeOfRelease | 1960s ⓘ |
| femaleLeadOccupation | model ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1966-09-13 ⓘ |
| genre | situation comedy ⓘ |
| hasNarrationDevice | commentary by The Man-in-the-Middle ⓘ |
| hasSetting | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasThemeOf |
deception
ⓘ
romantic comedy ⓘ workplace comedy ⓘ |
| lastAired | 1967-05-16 ⓘ |
| leadActor |
Michael Callan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Patricia Harty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Greta Patterson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Peter Christopher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediaType | television ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 30 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 1 ⓘ |
| originalChannel | NBC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originallyAiredOnDayOfWeek | Tuesday ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | NBC ⓘ |
| pictureFormat | black-and-white ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A bachelor persuades a woman to pose as his wife so he can advance in a company that favors married employees, leading to comedic complications. ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Universal Television NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | bachelor salesman ⓘ |
| runtimePerEpisode | 25 minutes ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 1960s ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general audience ⓘ |
| timeSlot | prime time ⓘ |
| workType | fictional narrative television series ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Occasional Wife Description of subject: Occasional Wife is a 1960s American sitcom about a bachelor who enlists a woman to pose as his wife to advance his career, leading to comedic complications.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.