Marcella
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Marcella is a British crime drama television series centered on a troubled former detective who returns to investigate a string of murders that echo an old case.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marcella canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8440795 — 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: Marcella Context triple: [Nina Sosanya, notableWork, Marcella]
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A.
Marcella Spruce
Marcella Spruce is the sister of American author Tabitha King and a member of the extended King literary family.
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B.
Marica
Marica is a figure in Roman mythology, often associated with the Latin king Latinus as his mother and sometimes linked to a local water or nymph deity.
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C.
Maeve
Maeve is a feminine given name of Irish origin, traditionally associated with a legendary queen of Connacht in Irish mythology.
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D.
Marnie
Marnie is a 1964 psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery, about a troubled woman with a mysterious past and compulsive thieving.
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E.
Shula
Shula is a surname most famously associated with Don Shula, the legendary NFL coach of the Miami Dolphins.
- 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: Marcella Target entity description: Marcella is a British crime drama television series centered on a troubled former detective who returns to investigate a string of murders that echo an old case.
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A.
Marcella Spruce
Marcella Spruce is the sister of American author Tabitha King and a member of the extended King literary family.
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B.
Marica
Marica is a figure in Roman mythology, often associated with the Latin king Latinus as his mother and sometimes linked to a local water or nymph deity.
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C.
Maeve
Maeve is a feminine given name of Irish origin, traditionally associated with a legendary queen of Connacht in Irish mythology.
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D.
Marnie
Marnie is a 1964 psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery, about a troubled woman with a mysterious past and compulsive thieving.
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E.
Shula
Shula is a surname most famously associated with Don Shula, the legendary NFL coach of the Miami Dolphins.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British crime drama television series
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television series ⓘ |
| audioFormat | Dolby Digital ⓘ |
| composer | Lorne Balfe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Hans Rosenfeldt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director |
Charles Martin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Charles Sturridge NERFINISHED ⓘ Jonathan Teplitzky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Netflix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| executiveProducer |
Anna Friel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hans Rosenfeldt NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Wood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| firstAired | 2016-04-04 ⓘ |
| firstAiredOnChannel | ITV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
mystery television series ⓘ |
| hasFormat | live-action television series ⓘ |
| hasProtagonistOccupation | detective ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Marcella Backland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacterPortrayedBy | Anna Friel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | investigation of murders echoing an old case ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 24 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 3 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | ITV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pictureFormat | 16:9 1080i ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Buccaneer Media NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| starring |
Aaron McCusker
NERFINISHED
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Amanda Burton NERFINISHED ⓘ Anna Friel NERFINISHED ⓘ Emmett J. Scanlan NERFINISHED ⓘ Hugo Speer NERFINISHED ⓘ Imogen Faires NERFINISHED ⓘ Jack Doolan NERFINISHED ⓘ Jamie Bamber NERFINISHED ⓘ Keith Allen NERFINISHED ⓘ Kelly Gough NERFINISHED ⓘ Martin McCann NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Colgan NERFINISHED ⓘ Nicholas Pinnock NERFINISHED ⓘ Nina Sosanya NERFINISHED ⓘ Ray Panthaki NERFINISHED ⓘ Sinéad Cusack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
family breakdown
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psychological trauma ⓘ serial murder investigation ⓘ |
| writer | Hans Rosenfeldt 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: Marcella Description of subject: Marcella is a British crime drama television series centered on a troubled former detective who returns to investigate a string of murders that echo an old case.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.