Toonerville Folks
E170933
Toonerville Folks is a classic early 20th-century American newspaper comic strip by Fontaine Fox, best known for its humorous depictions of small-town life and its rickety "Toonerville Trolley."
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Toonerville Folks canonical | 2 |
| Toonerville Trolley | 2 |
| Fontaine Fox’s Toonerville trolley characters | 1 |
| Toonerville Folks comic strip | 1 |
| rickety Toonerville Trolley | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1487580 — 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.
Target entity: Toonerville Folks Context triple: [Mickey McGuire, relatedWork, Toonerville Folks]
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Pete 'n' Tillie
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E.
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- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Toonerville Folks Target entity description: Toonerville Folks is a classic early 20th-century American newspaper comic strip by Fontaine Fox, best known for its humorous depictions of small-town life and its rickety "Toonerville Trolley."
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A.
Stiltsville
Stiltsville is a historic collection of wooden stilt houses built over the shallow waters of Biscayne Bay near Miami, Florida.
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B.
The Land of Topsy-Turvy
The Land of Topsy-Turvy is a whimsical, upside-down world in Enid Blyton’s Magic Faraway Tree series where normal rules are reversed and everything happens back-to-front.
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C.
Neighborhood of Make-Believe
The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is a whimsical puppet-populated fantasy world visited in "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," where stories, feelings, and life lessons are explored through imaginative play.
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D.
Pete 'n' Tillie
Pete 'n' Tillie is a 1972 American comedy-drama film about the evolving relationship of a middle-aged couple, adapted from Peter De Vries's stories and noted for its blend of humor and poignancy.
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E.
The Grouch
The Grouch is a song by the American punk rock band Green Day, featured on their 1997 album "Nimrod."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American comic strip
ⓘ
comic strip ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Fontaine Fox ⓘ |
| depicts | small-town life ⓘ |
| firstPublicationDecade | 1910s ⓘ |
| genre |
gag-a-day comic
ⓘ
humor ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Mickey McGuire
ⓘ
Skipper ⓘ The Old Lady ⓘ The Powerful Katrinka ⓘ The Terrible Tempered Mr. Bang ⓘ The Trolley Conductor ⓘ |
| hasCulturalStatus | classic American comic strip ⓘ |
| hasHumorType |
character-based humor
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situational comedy ⓘ slapstick ⓘ |
| hasIconicElement |
Toonerville Folks
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
rickety Toonerville Trolley
|
| hasMainVehicle |
Toonerville Folks
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Toonerville Trolley
|
| hasSpinOff |
Mickey McGuire
ⓘ
surface form:
Mickey McGuire film series
|
| hasTheme |
community life
ⓘ
everyday humor ⓘ rural American life ⓘ |
| hasTransportationFocus |
streetcar
ⓘ
trolley ⓘ |
| influenced | later American newspaper comics ⓘ |
| inspired |
animated cartoons
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live-action comedy shorts ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| notableElement |
Toonerville Folks
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Toonerville Trolley
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| originalFormat | newspaper comic strip ⓘ |
| portrays |
comic mishaps on a trolley
ⓘ
eccentric townspeople ⓘ |
| publicationMedium | newspaper ⓘ |
| publisherType | syndicate ⓘ |
| setting | small town ⓘ |
| style | cartoonish ⓘ |
| syndicationRegion |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| targetAudience | general newspaper readership ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| workOf | Fontaine Fox ⓘ |
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Subject: Toonerville Folks Description of subject: Toonerville Folks is a classic early 20th-century American newspaper comic strip by Fontaine Fox, best known for its humorous depictions of small-town life and its rickety "Toonerville Trolley."
Referenced by (7)
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