Dy-no-mite!
E161506
"Dy-no-mite!" is the exuberant catchphrase popularized by Jimmie Walker’s character J.J. Evans on the 1970s American sitcom *Good Times*.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dy-no-mite! canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1408772 — 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: Dy-no-mite! Context triple: [Good Times, notableCatchphrase, Dy-no-mite!]
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A.
Kaboom Town!
Kaboom Town! is an annual Independence Day fireworks and entertainment festival held in Addison, Texas, known for one of the most spectacular pyrotechnic displays in the United States.
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B.
Las Bombas
Las Bombas is a Metrobús station in Mexico City that serves as a terminus on Line 5 of the bus rapid transit system.
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C.
Bink!
Bink! is an American hip-hop record producer known for his soulful, hard-hitting beats and work with artists such as Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Rick Ross.
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D.
Dinger
Dinger is the purple triceratops mascot of Major League Baseball's Colorado Rockies, known for entertaining fans at Coors Field.
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E.
Dighty Water
Dighty Water is a small river in Angus, Scotland, that flows through the Monifieth and Dundee area before entering the Firth of Tay.
- 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: Dy-no-mite! Target entity description: "Dy-no-mite!" is the exuberant catchphrase popularized by Jimmie Walker’s character J.J. Evans on the 1970s American sitcom *Good Times*.
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A.
Kaboom Town!
Kaboom Town! is an annual Independence Day fireworks and entertainment festival held in Addison, Texas, known for one of the most spectacular pyrotechnic displays in the United States.
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B.
Las Bombas
Las Bombas is a Metrobús station in Mexico City that serves as a terminus on Line 5 of the bus rapid transit system.
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C.
Bink!
Bink! is an American hip-hop record producer known for his soulful, hard-hitting beats and work with artists such as Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Rick Ross.
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D.
Dinger
Dinger is the purple triceratops mascot of Major League Baseball's Colorado Rockies, known for entertaining fans at Coors Field.
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E.
Dighty Water
Dighty Water is a small river in Angus, Scotland, that flows through the Monifieth and Dundee area before entering the Firth of Tay.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
catchphrase
ⓘ
television catchphrase ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | American sitcom ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter | J.J. Evans ⓘ |
| associatedWithDemographic | American TV audiences ⓘ |
| associatedWithSeries | Good Times ⓘ |
| becamePopCultureReferenceBy | late 1970s ⓘ |
| catchphraseOf | J.J. Evans ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| culturalStatus | iconic TV catchphrase ⓘ |
| deliveryStyle | elongated pronunciation of "dynamite" ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Good Times ⓘ |
| firstPopularUseDecade | 1970s ⓘ |
| genreContext | sitcom ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| linkedToNetwork | CBS ⓘ |
| linkedToPerformer | Jimmie Walker ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| notableEra | 1970s American television ⓘ |
| notableFor | repetition across multiple episodes of Good Times ⓘ |
| popularizedBy | Jimmie Walker ⓘ |
| relatedConcept | television one-liners ⓘ |
| spellingVariantOf | "dynamite" ⓘ |
| tone | exuberant ⓘ |
| typicalEmotionExpressed |
enthusiasm
ⓘ
excitement ⓘ |
| usedAs |
comic catchphrase
ⓘ
signature line ⓘ |
| usedInContext |
celebratory reactions
ⓘ
punchlines ⓘ |
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: Dy-no-mite! Description of subject: "Dy-no-mite!" is the exuberant catchphrase popularized by Jimmie Walker’s character J.J. Evans on the 1970s American sitcom *Good Times*.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.