Bobby's World
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Bobby's World is an animated children's television series created by and starring Howie Mandel, following the imaginative adventures of a young boy named Bobby Generic.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bobby's World canonical | 3 |
| Bobby Generic in Bobby's World | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12976754 — 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: Bobby's World Context triple: [Fox Kids, notableShowAired, Bobby's World]
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A.
Blue’s Clues
Blue’s Clues is an American children’s television series that became a landmark in educational programming for its interactive format, direct address to preschool viewers, and influential use of repetition and problem-solving.
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B.
Hong Kong Phooey
Hong Kong Phooey is a 1970s animated television series featuring a bumbling yet well-meaning canine superhero who fights crime with martial arts, produced by the studio Hanna-Barbera.
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C.
Bob (TV series)
Bob (TV series) is an American sitcom starring comedian Bob Newhart as a comic book artist, which aired on CBS in the early 1990s.
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D.
Elmo’s World
Elmo’s World is a popular Sesame Street segment for preschoolers that explores everyday topics through songs, sketches, and interactive play led by the character Elmo.
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E.
Sam and Friends
Sam and Friends was an early 1950s–60s American television puppet show that served as Jim Henson’s first major series and a precursor to the Muppets.
- 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: Bobby's World Target entity description: Bobby's World is an animated children's television series created by and starring Howie Mandel, following the imaginative adventures of a young boy named Bobby Generic.
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A.
Blue’s Clues
Blue’s Clues is an American children’s television series that became a landmark in educational programming for its interactive format, direct address to preschool viewers, and influential use of repetition and problem-solving.
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B.
Hong Kong Phooey
Hong Kong Phooey is a 1970s animated television series featuring a bumbling yet well-meaning canine superhero who fights crime with martial arts, produced by the studio Hanna-Barbera.
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C.
Bob (TV series)
Bob (TV series) is an American sitcom starring comedian Bob Newhart as a comic book artist, which aired on CBS in the early 1990s.
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D.
Elmo’s World
Elmo’s World is a popular Sesame Street segment for preschoolers that explores everyday topics through songs, sketches, and interactive play led by the character Elmo.
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E.
Sam and Friends
Sam and Friends was an early 1950s–60s American television puppet show that served as Jim Henson’s first major series and a precursor to the Muppets.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
animated television series
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children's television series ⓘ fictional character ⓘ fictional character ⓘ fictional character ⓘ person ⓘ |
| age | 4 ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Bobby's World
NERFINISHED
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Bobby's World NERFINISHED ⓘ Bobby's World NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Howie Mandel's stand-up comedy character Bobby ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator |
Howie Mandel
NERFINISHED
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Jim Fisher NERFINISHED ⓘ Jim Staahl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | 20th Television NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Generic ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Aunt Ruth
NERFINISHED
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Bobby Generic NERFINISHED ⓘ Derek Generic NERFINISHED ⓘ Howard Generic NERFINISHED ⓘ Kelly Generic NERFINISHED ⓘ Martha Generic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1990-09-08 ⓘ |
| genre |
animated comedy
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children's animation ⓘ |
| lastAired | 1998-02-23 ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Bobby Generic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableElement | fantasy sequences depicting Bobby's imagination ⓘ |
| notableWork | Bobby's World NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 81 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 7 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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comedian ⓘ television producer ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| openingThemePerformer | John Tesh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | Fox Kids NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Alevy Productions
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Film Roman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
Bobby Generic's father
NERFINISHED
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Bobby Generic's mother ⓘ |
| setting | suburban United States ⓘ |
| targetAudience | children ⓘ |
| voiceActor | Howie Mandel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| voiceOf | Bobby Generic 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: Bobby's World Description of subject: Bobby's World is an animated children's television series created by and starring Howie Mandel, following the imaginative adventures of a young boy named Bobby Generic.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bobby Generic in Bobby's World