Alcatraz (TV series)
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Alcatraz is a science fiction crime drama television series that follows modern-day investigators as they track prisoners who mysteriously vanished from the infamous Alcatraz prison in 1963 and begin reappearing unchanged decades later.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alcatraz (TV series) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9539342 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alcatraz (TV series) Context triple: [Bryan Burk, notableWork, Alcatraz (TV series)]
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A.
Alcatraz
Alcatraz is the silent U.S. Marine protagonist of Crysis 2 who inherits the advanced Nanosuit and becomes central to humanity’s fight against alien invaders in New York City.
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B.
Nash Bridges
Nash Bridges is an American television crime drama series set in San Francisco, starring Don Johnson as a charismatic police inspector.
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C.
Adam-12
Adam-12 is an American television police drama series that followed two LAPD patrol officers on their daily calls and helped popularize a realistic, procedural depiction of urban policing in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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D.
The Pacific (miniseries)
The Pacific is a 2010 World War II television miniseries produced by HBO that follows U.S. Marines fighting in the Pacific Theater, serving as a companion piece to Band of Brothers.
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E.
Magnum, P.I.
Magnum, P.I. is an American television crime drama series from the 1980s that follows the adventures of private investigator Thomas Magnum in Hawaii.
- 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: Alcatraz (TV series) Target entity description: Alcatraz is a science fiction crime drama television series that follows modern-day investigators as they track prisoners who mysteriously vanished from the infamous Alcatraz prison in 1963 and begin reappearing unchanged decades later.
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A.
Alcatraz
Alcatraz is the silent U.S. Marine protagonist of Crysis 2 who inherits the advanced Nanosuit and becomes central to humanity’s fight against alien invaders in New York City.
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B.
Nash Bridges
Nash Bridges is an American television crime drama series set in San Francisco, starring Don Johnson as a charismatic police inspector.
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C.
Adam-12
Adam-12 is an American television police drama series that followed two LAPD patrol officers on their daily calls and helped popularize a realistic, procedural depiction of urban policing in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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D.
The Pacific (miniseries)
The Pacific is a 2010 World War II television miniseries produced by HBO that follows U.S. Marines fighting in the Pacific Theater, serving as a companion piece to Band of Brothers.
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E.
Magnum, P.I.
Magnum, P.I. is an American television crime drama series from the 1980s that follows the adventures of private investigator Thomas Magnum in Hawaii.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | television series ⓘ |
| audioFormat | Dolby Digital 5.1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| broadcastFormat | HDTV 720p ⓘ |
| cancellationDate | 2012-05-09 ⓘ |
| cancellationNetwork | Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Michael Giacchino NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator |
Bryan Wynbrandt
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elizabeth Sarnoff NERFINISHED ⓘ Steven Lilien NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| executiveProducer |
Bryan Burk
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elizabeth Sarnoff NERFINISHED ⓘ J. J. Abrams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
San Francisco
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vancouver ⓘ |
| firstAired | 2012-01-16 ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
science fiction ⓘ |
| hasEpisodeRuntime | approximately 43 minutes ⓘ |
| lastAired | 2012-03-26 ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Diego Soto
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Emerson Hauser NERFINISHED ⓘ Rebecca Madsen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 13 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 1 ⓘ |
| openingThemeComposer | Michael Giacchino NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalRunPeriod | 2012 ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Investigators track prisoners who vanished from Alcatraz prison in 1963 and reappear in the present day without having aged. ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Eric Johnson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jason Butler Harner NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeananne Goossen NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeffrey Pierce NERFINISHED ⓘ Jonny Coyne NERFINISHED ⓘ Jorge Garcia NERFINISHED ⓘ Parminder Nagra NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Forster NERFINISHED ⓘ Sam Neill NERFINISHED ⓘ Santiago Cabrera NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarah Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Bad Robot Productions
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Warner Bros. Television ⓘ |
| setting |
Alcatraz Island
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | ended ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Alcatraz (TV series) Description of subject: Alcatraz is a science fiction crime drama television series that follows modern-day investigators as they track prisoners who mysteriously vanished from the infamous Alcatraz prison in 1963 and begin reappearing unchanged decades later.
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