Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog
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Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog is a 1961 Disney family film dramatizing the legendary loyalty of a Skye Terrier who guarded his master’s grave in 19th-century Edinburgh.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Greyfriars Bobby | 1 |
| Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5141382 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog Context triple: [Vincent Winter, notableWork, Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog]
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A.
A Dog’s Journey
A Dog’s Journey is a 2019 family drama film based on W. Bruce Cameron’s novel, following a loyal dog who is reincarnated multiple times to watch over and protect the people he loves.
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B.
The Dog Pound
The Dog Pound is the passionate student cheering section known for creating an energetic home-ice atmosphere at Boston University Terriers men's hockey games.
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C.
A Dog’s Purpose
A Dog’s Purpose is a 2017 family drama film based on W. Bruce Cameron’s novel, following a dog’s many reincarnated lives as it searches for its true purpose with the humans it loves.
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D.
K-9 and Company
K-9 and Company is a British science-fiction television series set in the Doctor Who universe, featuring the Doctor’s robotic dog K-9 and former companion Sarah Jane Smith in their own adventures.
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E.
The Twa Dogs
The Twa Dogs is a satirical poem by Robert Burns in which two dogs discuss and contrast the lives of the rich and the poor in 18th-century Scotland.
- 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: Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog Target entity description: Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog is a 1961 Disney family film dramatizing the legendary loyalty of a Skye Terrier who guarded his master’s grave in 19th-century Edinburgh.
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A.
A Dog’s Journey
A Dog’s Journey is a 2019 family drama film based on W. Bruce Cameron’s novel, following a loyal dog who is reincarnated multiple times to watch over and protect the people he loves.
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B.
The Dog Pound
The Dog Pound is the passionate student cheering section known for creating an energetic home-ice atmosphere at Boston University Terriers men's hockey games.
-
C.
A Dog’s Purpose
A Dog’s Purpose is a 2017 family drama film based on W. Bruce Cameron’s novel, following a dog’s many reincarnated lives as it searches for its true purpose with the humans it loves.
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D.
K-9 and Company
K-9 and Company is a British science-fiction television series set in the Doctor Who universe, featuring the Doctor’s robotic dog K-9 and former companion Sarah Jane Smith in their own adventures.
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E.
The Twa Dogs
The Twa Dogs is a satirical poem by Robert Burns in which two dogs discuss and contrast the lives of the rich and the poor in 18th-century Scotland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | legend of Greyfriars Bobby ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Paul Beeson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Don Chaffey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Buena Vista Distribution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Peter Boita NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresAnimal | Skye Terrier ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
biographical film
ⓘ
drama ⓘ family ⓘ |
| hasSetting | Greyfriars Kirkyard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
Edinburgh history
ⓘ
Scottish folklore ⓘ dogs ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Auld Jock
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Greyfriars Bobby NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr. Traill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Oliver Wallace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Disney live-action films of the 1960s ⓘ |
| portrays | dog guarding his master’s grave ⓘ |
| portraysPeriod | 1860s ⓘ |
| producer | Walt Disney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Walt Disney Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1961-07-17 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1961 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 91 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Eleanor Atkinson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert Westerby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| setInCountry | Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInLocation | Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
children
ⓘ
families ⓘ |
| theme |
friendship between human and dog
ⓘ
grief ⓘ loyalty ⓘ |
| title | Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog 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: Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog Description of subject: Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog is a 1961 Disney family film dramatizing the legendary loyalty of a Skye Terrier who guarded his master’s grave in 19th-century Edinburgh.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Greyfriars Bobby