The Flying Nun
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The Flying Nun is a 1960s American sitcom about a novice nun in Puerto Rico whose lightweight frame and winged habit enable her to literally fly, famously starring Sally Field.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Flying Nun canonical | 2 |
| The Flying Nun (TV series) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9086304 — 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 Flying Nun Context triple: [Sally Field, notableWork, The Flying Nun]
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A.
Ummagumma
Ummagumma is a 1969 double album by Pink Floyd that combines live recordings with experimental solo studio pieces from each band member.
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B.
Mulligan Highway
Mulligan Highway is a major road in Far North Queensland, Australia, that connects inland regions to the coastal town of Cooktown.
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C.
The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys is a 1971 jazz-rock and progressive rock album by the English band Traffic, featuring Steve Winwood and known for its extended, improvisational title track.
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D.
The Rumour
The Rumour is a painting by Belgian contemporary artist Luc Tuymans, exemplifying his subtle, muted style and exploration of memory, history, and the distortion of truth.
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E.
Lady With the Spinning Head
"Lady With the Spinning Head" is a 1991 U2 song, released as a B-side to "One," that features experimental guitar work and lyrical ideas later developed in several tracks on the album Achtung Baby.
- 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 Flying Nun Target entity description: The Flying Nun is a 1960s American sitcom about a novice nun in Puerto Rico whose lightweight frame and winged habit enable her to literally fly, famously starring Sally Field.
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A.
Ummagumma
Ummagumma is a 1969 double album by Pink Floyd that combines live recordings with experimental solo studio pieces from each band member.
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B.
Mulligan Highway
Mulligan Highway is a major road in Far North Queensland, Australia, that connects inland regions to the coastal town of Cooktown.
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C.
The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys is a 1971 jazz-rock and progressive rock album by the English band Traffic, featuring Steve Winwood and known for its extended, improvisational title track.
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D.
The Rumour
The Rumour is a painting by Belgian contemporary artist Luc Tuymans, exemplifying his subtle, muted style and exploration of memory, history, and the distortion of truth.
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E.
Lady With the Spinning Head
"Lady With the Spinning Head" is a 1991 U2 song, released as a B-side to "One," that features experimental guitar work and lyrical ideas later developed in several tracks on the album Achtung Baby.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | television series ⓘ |
| audioFormat | monophonic sound ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceMaterial | Tere Ríos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Fifteenth Pelican NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfAbility | lightweight frame and winged habit ⓘ |
| character |
Carlos Ramirez
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mother Superior Placido NERFINISHED ⓘ Sister Bertrille NERFINISHED ⓘ Sister Jacqueline NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Dominic Frontiere NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| distributor | Screen Gems NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endYear | 1970 ⓘ |
| executiveProducer | Harry Ackerman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalSetting | Convent San Tanco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California
|
| firstAired | 1967-09-07 ⓘ |
| genre | sitcom ⓘ |
| hasFormat | half-hour television episode ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
Catholic nuns in popular culture
ⓘ
religion and comedy in television ⓘ |
| lastAired | 1970-04-03 ⓘ |
| leadActorRole | Sally Field as Sister Bertrille NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacterAbility | ability to fly ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early starring role of Sally Field
ⓘ
premise of a nun who can literally fly ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 82 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 3 ⓘ |
| openingTheme | The Flying Nun theme ⓘ |
| originalChannel | American Broadcasting Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | ABC ⓘ |
| originalRunEra | 1960s American television ⓘ |
| pictureFormat |
black-and-white (season 1)
ⓘ
color (seasons 2–3) ⓘ |
| producer | Bernard Slade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Screen Gems NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | San Juan, Puerto Rico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Alejandro Rey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Madeleine Sherwood NERFINISHED ⓘ Marge Redmond NERFINISHED ⓘ Sally Field NERFINISHED ⓘ Shelley Morrison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startYear | 1967 ⓘ |
| themeMusicComposer | Dominic Frontiere NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 1960s ⓘ |
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 Flying Nun Description of subject: The Flying Nun is a 1960s American sitcom about a novice nun in Puerto Rico whose lightweight frame and winged habit enable her to literally fly, famously starring Sally Field.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Flying Nun (TV series)