The Deuce
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The Deuce is an HBO drama television series that chronicles the rise of the porn industry and the transformation of Times Square in 1970s and 1980s New York City.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Deuce canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8002353 — 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: The Deuce Context triple: [Maggie Gyllenhaal, notableWork, The Deuce]
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A.
The Deuce
The Deuce was the original nickname and branding used by ESPN2, a U.S. cable sports television channel.
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B.
The Meyerowitz Stories
The Meyerowitz Stories is a 2017 Noah Baumbach film, starring Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, and Dustin Hoffman, that follows a dysfunctional New York family reuniting around their aging patriarch.
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C.
Boardwalk Empire
Boardwalk Empire is a critically acclaimed HBO period crime drama series set in Prohibition-era Atlantic City, following corrupt politician Nucky Thompson and the intertwining worlds of politics, bootlegging, and organized crime.
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D.
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
McCabe & Mrs. Miller is a 1971 revisionist Western film directed by Robert Altman, acclaimed for its atmospheric style, unconventional storytelling, and subversion of traditional Western genre tropes.
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E.
The Pawnbroker
The Pawnbroker is a 1964 American drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, renowned for Rod Steiger’s powerful portrayal of a Holocaust survivor running a Harlem pawnshop.
- 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: The Deuce Target entity description: The Deuce is an HBO drama television series that chronicles the rise of the porn industry and the transformation of Times Square in 1970s and 1980s New York City.
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A.
The Deuce
The Deuce was the original nickname and branding used by ESPN2, a U.S. cable sports television channel.
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B.
The Meyerowitz Stories
The Meyerowitz Stories is a 2017 Noah Baumbach film, starring Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, and Dustin Hoffman, that follows a dysfunctional New York family reuniting around their aging patriarch.
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C.
Boardwalk Empire
Boardwalk Empire is a critically acclaimed HBO period crime drama series set in Prohibition-era Atlantic City, following corrupt politician Nucky Thompson and the intertwining worlds of politics, bootlegging, and organized crime.
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D.
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
McCabe & Mrs. Miller is a 1971 revisionist Western film directed by Robert Altman, acclaimed for its atmospheric style, unconventional storytelling, and subversion of traditional Western genre tropes.
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E.
The Pawnbroker
The Pawnbroker is a 1964 American drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, renowned for Rod Steiger’s powerful portrayal of a Holocaust survivor running a Harlem pawnshop.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | television series ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | The Deuce (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| createdBy |
David Simon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
George Pelecanos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Home Box Office NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| executiveProducer |
David Simon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
George Pelecanos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
drama ⓘ period drama ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
home video release
ⓘ
television broadcast ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 25 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 3 ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | HBO ⓘ |
| originalReleaseEnd | 2019-10-28 ⓘ |
| originalReleaseStart | 2017-09-10 ⓘ |
| pilotDirectedBy | Michelle MacLaren NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrays |
AIDS crisis
ⓘ
feminist movements in sex industry ⓘ impact of pornography industry on Times Square ⓘ legalization of pornography in New York ⓘ police corruption ⓘ political corruption ⓘ |
| productionCompany | HBO NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn |
New York City
ⓘ
Times Square NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod |
1970s
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1980s ⓘ |
| stars |
Chris Bauer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chris Coy NERFINISHED ⓘ Dominique Fishback NERFINISHED ⓘ Emily Meade NERFINISHED ⓘ Gary Carr NERFINISHED ⓘ Gbenga Akinnagbe NERFINISHED ⓘ James Franco NERFINISHED ⓘ Lawrence Gilliard Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Maggie Gyllenhaal NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Rispoli NERFINISHED ⓘ Zoe Kazan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subject |
organized crime
ⓘ
pornography industry ⓘ sex work ⓘ urban transformation ⓘ |
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: The Deuce Description of subject: The Deuce is an HBO drama television series that chronicles the rise of the porn industry and the transformation of Times Square in 1970s and 1980s New York City.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.