Dear John
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Dear John is an American sitcom that aired from 1988 to 1992, starring Judd Hirsch as a recently divorced man navigating single life and friendships in a New York City support group.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dear John canonical | 7 |
| Dear John (TV series) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6121933 — 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: Dear John Context triple: [Judd Hirsch, notableWork, Dear John]
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A.
Dear John
Dear John is a romantic drama film based on Nicholas Sparks' novel, following the relationship between a soldier and a young woman whose love is tested by distance and time.
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B.
Dear John Letter
"Dear John Letter" is a song from Whitney Houston's 2002 album "Just Whitney," reflecting themes of heartbreak and the end of a relationship.
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C.
Dear One
"Dear One" is a song from the musical "Kiss of the Spider Woman," known for its emotional depth and contribution to the show's dramatic narrative.
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D.
Dear Love
"Dear Love" is a musical number from the Broadway show "Flora the Red Menace," which marked Liza Minnelli’s Tony-winning debut.
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E.
Dear Boy
"Dear Boy" is a song by the Indian musician Ram.
- 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: Dear John Target entity description: Dear John is an American sitcom that aired from 1988 to 1992, starring Judd Hirsch as a recently divorced man navigating single life and friendships in a New York City support group.
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A.
Dear John
Dear John is a romantic drama film based on Nicholas Sparks' novel, following the relationship between a soldier and a young woman whose love is tested by distance and time.
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B.
Dear John Letter
"Dear John Letter" is a song from Whitney Houston's 2002 album "Just Whitney," reflecting themes of heartbreak and the end of a relationship.
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C.
Dear One
"Dear One" is a song from the musical "Kiss of the Spider Woman," known for its emotional depth and contribution to the show's dramatic narrative.
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D.
Dear Love
"Dear Love" is a musical number from the Broadway show "Flora the Red Menace," which marked Liza Minnelli’s Tony-winning debut.
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E.
Dear Boy
"Dear Boy" is a song by the Indian musician Ram.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | American television sitcom ⓘ |
| audioFormat | stereo ⓘ |
| basedOn | Dear John (British TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cameraSetup | multi-camera ⓘ |
| character |
John Lacey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kate McCarron NERFINISHED ⓘ Kirk Morris NERFINISHED ⓘ Louise Mercer NERFINISHED ⓘ Margaret Kramer NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Beth Sutton NERFINISHED ⓘ Ralph Drang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator |
Bob Ellison
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Peter Noah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Paramount Domestic Television NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endYear | 1992 ⓘ |
| executiveProducer | Ed. Weinberger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingStyle | studio audience ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1988-10-06 ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
sitcom ⓘ |
| lastAired | 1992-07-22 ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | schoolteacher ⓘ |
| network | NBC ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 90 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 4 ⓘ |
| openingTheme | Dear John theme song ⓘ |
| originalChannel | NBC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | NBC ⓘ |
| pictureFormat |
NTSC color television standard
ⓘ
surface form:
NTSC
|
| plotSummary | Recently divorced man joins a singles support group in New York City ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Paramount Television NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runtimePerEpisode | 30 minutes ⓘ |
| settingLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| starring |
Ben Savage
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Billie Bird NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Groener NERFINISHED ⓘ Isabella Hofmann NERFINISHED ⓘ Jane Carr NERFINISHED ⓘ Jere Burns NERFINISHED ⓘ Judd Hirsch NERFINISHED ⓘ Olivia Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startYear | 1988 ⓘ |
| targetAudience | prime time television viewers ⓘ |
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: Dear John Description of subject: Dear John is an American sitcom that aired from 1988 to 1992, starring Judd Hirsch as a recently divorced man navigating single life and friendships in a New York City support group.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Dear John (TV series)