The Time Tunnel
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The Time Tunnel is a 1960s American science-fiction television series created and produced by Irwin Allen, centered on two scientists who become lost while traveling unpredictably through time.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Time Tunnel canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9552618 — 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 Time Tunnel Context triple: [Irwin Allen, notableWork, The Time Tunnel]
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A.
Voyage in Time
Voyage in Time is a 1983 documentary film that follows director Andrei Tarkovsky and screenwriter Tonino Guerra as they travel through Italy discussing cinema, art, and Tarkovsky’s creative philosophy.
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B.
The Invasion of Time
The Invasion of Time is a 1978 Doctor Who serial featuring the Fourth Doctor returning to Gallifrey and seizing control of the Time Lords’ Citadel amid a complex alien invasion plot.
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C.
The Time Warrior
"The Time Warrior" is a classic 1973–74 Doctor Who serial that introduced Elisabeth Sladen as companion Sarah Jane Smith and featured the Sontarans as a new alien race.
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D.
Time Warp
"Time Warp" is a cult-classic rock musical number from *The Rocky Horror Picture Show*, famous for its quirky dance moves and frequent use in pop culture.
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E.
The Legion of Time
The Legion of Time is a classic science fiction novel by Jack Williamson that blends time travel, alternate histories, and adventure in a battle to shape the future of humanity.
- 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 Time Tunnel Target entity description: The Time Tunnel is a 1960s American science-fiction television series created and produced by Irwin Allen, centered on two scientists who become lost while traveling unpredictably through time.
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A.
Voyage in Time
Voyage in Time is a 1983 documentary film that follows director Andrei Tarkovsky and screenwriter Tonino Guerra as they travel through Italy discussing cinema, art, and Tarkovsky’s creative philosophy.
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B.
The Invasion of Time
The Invasion of Time is a 1978 Doctor Who serial featuring the Fourth Doctor returning to Gallifrey and seizing control of the Time Lords’ Citadel amid a complex alien invasion plot.
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C.
The Time Warrior
"The Time Warrior" is a classic 1973–74 Doctor Who serial that introduced Elisabeth Sladen as companion Sarah Jane Smith and featured the Sontarans as a new alien race.
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D.
Time Warp
"Time Warp" is a cult-classic rock musical number from *The Rocky Horror Picture Show*, famous for its quirky dance moves and frequent use in pop culture.
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E.
The Legion of Time
The Legion of Time is a classic science fiction novel by Jack Williamson that blends time travel, alternate histories, and adventure in a battle to shape the future of humanity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | television series ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Irwin Allen's The Time Tunnel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Dr. Ann MacGregor
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dr. Doug Phillips NERFINISHED ⓘ Dr. Raymond Swain NERFINISHED ⓘ Dr. Tony Newman NERFINISHED ⓘ Lt. General Heywood Kirk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Irwin Allen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | 20th Century Fox Television NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endYear | 1967 ⓘ |
| episodeRuntimeMinutes | 50 ⓘ |
| executiveProducer | Irwin Allen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresHistoricalEvents | yes ⓘ |
| fictionalDevice | time tunnel ⓘ |
| filmedAt | 20th Century Fox Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingTechnique | single-camera ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1966-09-09 ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasColorFormat | color ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | yes ⓘ |
| hasFormat | live action ⓘ |
| influenced | later time-travel television series ⓘ |
| lastAired | 1967-04-07 ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Dr. Doug Phillips
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dr. Tony Newman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediaType | television ⓘ |
| musicComposer | John Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| network | American Broadcasting Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEpisodeSetting |
Battle of Little Bighorn
GENERATED
ⓘ
Pearl Harbor GENERATED ⓘ Titanic GENERATED ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 30 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 1 ⓘ |
| openingThemeComposer | John Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalBroadcastDecade | 1960s ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originallyAiredOnDay | Friday ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | ABC ⓘ |
| pilotEpisodeTitle | Rendezvous with Yesterday NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premise | Two scientists become lost while traveling unpredictably through time via a secret government project. ⓘ |
| producer | Irwin Allen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | 20th Century Fox Television NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | Arizona NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startYear | 1966 ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general audience ⓘ |
| timeTravelInFiction | yes ⓘ |
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 Time Tunnel Description of subject: The Time Tunnel is a 1960s American science-fiction television series created and produced by Irwin Allen, centered on two scientists who become lost while traveling unpredictably through time.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.