Man Seeking Woman
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American television series
comedy television series
short story collection
surreal comedy television series
television series
Man Seeking Woman is a surreal, darkly comedic television series that follows a young man's exaggerated and fantastical misadventures in modern dating.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Man Seeking Woman canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11157140 — 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: Man Seeking Woman Context triple: [Jonathan Krisel, notableWork, Man Seeking Woman]
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A.
What a Woman Wants
"What a Woman Wants" is a musical number from the stage adaptation of the film *Kinky Boots*, featuring lyrics by Cyndi Lauper that explores themes of desire, identity, and empowerment.
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B.
A Woman & a Man
A Woman & a Man is a 1996 pop album by American singer Belinda Carlisle, featuring melodic adult contemporary and pop-rock songs that marked her return to the music scene in the mid-1990s.
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C.
The Last Seduction
The Last Seduction is a 1994 neo-noir thriller film best known for Linda Fiorentino’s acclaimed performance as a manipulative femme fatale.
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D.
A Man and a Woman
"A Man and a Woman" is a romantic rock song by U2 from their 2004 album *How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb*.
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E.
Men Without Women
Men Without Women is a 1927 short story collection by Ernest Hemingway that explores themes of masculinity, loss, and emotional isolation through his characteristic sparse, understated prose.
- 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: Man Seeking Woman Target entity description: Man Seeking Woman is a surreal, darkly comedic television series that follows a young man's exaggerated and fantastical misadventures in modern dating.
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A.
What a Woman Wants
"What a Woman Wants" is a musical number from the stage adaptation of the film *Kinky Boots*, featuring lyrics by Cyndi Lauper that explores themes of desire, identity, and empowerment.
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B.
A Woman & a Man
A Woman & a Man is a 1996 pop album by American singer Belinda Carlisle, featuring melodic adult contemporary and pop-rock songs that marked her return to the music scene in the mid-1990s.
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C.
The Last Seduction
The Last Seduction is a 1994 neo-noir thriller film best known for Linda Fiorentino’s acclaimed performance as a manipulative femme fatale.
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D.
A Man and a Woman
"A Man and a Woman" is a romantic rock song by U2 from their 2004 album *How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb*.
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E.
Men Without Women
Men Without Women is a 1927 short story collection by Ernest Hemingway that explores themes of masculinity, loss, and emotional isolation through his characteristic sparse, understated prose.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American television series
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comedy television series ⓘ short story collection ⓘ surreal comedy television series ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| author | Simon Rich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Last Girlfriend on Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Josh Greenberg
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Liz NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucy NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Joseph Stephens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Simon Rich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | FX Networks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| executiveProducer |
Andrew Goldberg
NERFINISHED
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Andrew Singer NERFINISHED ⓘ Ian Maxtone-Graham NERFINISHED ⓘ Jonathan Krisel NERFINISHED ⓘ Lorne Michaels NERFINISHED ⓘ Simon Rich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| finalAired | 2017 ⓘ |
| firstAired | 2015 ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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fantasy ⓘ romantic comedy ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
absurdism
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dating ⓘ relationships ⓘ surrealism ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | young man’s misadventures in dating ⓘ |
| network | FXX NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 30 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 3 ⓘ |
| originalChannel | FXX NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalReleaseDate | 2015-01-14 ⓘ |
| originalRunEndYear | 2017 ⓘ |
| originalRunStartYear | 2015 ⓘ |
| pictureFormat | HDTV ⓘ |
| portrays | modern dating as surreal and fantastical ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
FX Productions
NERFINISHED
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Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runningTimePerEpisode | approximately 22 minutes ⓘ |
| setting | Chicago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Britt Lower
NERFINISHED
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Eric André NERFINISHED ⓘ Jay Baruchel NERFINISHED ⓘ Katie Findlay NERFINISHED ⓘ Maya Erskine NERFINISHED ⓘ Robin Bartlett 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: Man Seeking Woman Description of subject: Man Seeking Woman is a surreal, darkly comedic television series that follows a young man's exaggerated and fantastical misadventures in modern dating.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.