What's Happening!!
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"What's Happening!!" is a 1970s American sitcom loosely based on the film "Cooley High," following the comedic everyday lives of three African-American teenagers in Los Angeles.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| What's Happening!! canonical | 3 |
| What’s Happening!! | 2 |
| What’s Happening!! (TV series) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7044587 — 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: What's Happening!! Context triple: [Eric Monte, notableWork, What's Happening!!]
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A.
What's Happening Now!!
"What's Happening Now!!" is an American sitcom and sequel to the 1970s series "What's Happening!!," following the adult lives of the original characters as they navigate new personal and professional challenges.
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B.
Happenings
Happenings were an experimental art movement of the late 1950s and 1960s that blended performance, visual art, and audience participation into spontaneous, often unpredictable events.
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C.
What’s New
"What’s New" is a 1983 album by Linda Ronstadt that marked her acclaimed foray into traditional pop standards and the Great American Songbook.
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D.
It’s Happening Here
"It’s Happening Here" is the official motto of the University of Louisville, emphasizing the campus as a dynamic center of activity, innovation, and opportunity.
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E.
What’s new
"What’s new" is Terence Tao’s influential mathematics blog, where he shares expository articles, research insights, and commentary on a wide range of mathematical topics.
- 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: What's Happening!! Target entity description: "What's Happening!!" is a 1970s American sitcom loosely based on the film "Cooley High," following the comedic everyday lives of three African-American teenagers in Los Angeles.
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A.
What's Happening Now!!
"What's Happening Now!!" is an American sitcom and sequel to the 1970s series "What's Happening!!," following the adult lives of the original characters as they navigate new personal and professional challenges.
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B.
Happenings
Happenings were an experimental art movement of the late 1950s and 1960s that blended performance, visual art, and audience participation into spontaneous, often unpredictable events.
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C.
What’s New
"What’s New" is a 1983 album by Linda Ronstadt that marked her acclaimed foray into traditional pop standards and the Great American Songbook.
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D.
It’s Happening Here
"It’s Happening Here" is the official motto of the University of Louisville, emphasizing the campus as a dynamic center of activity, innovation, and opportunity.
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E.
What’s new
"What’s new" is Terence Tao’s influential mathematics blog, where he shares expository articles, research insights, and commentary on a wide range of mathematical topics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | television series ⓘ |
| audioFormat | mono ⓘ |
| basedOn | Cooley High NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Henry Mancini NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| creator | Eric Monte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depicts | African-American teenagers ⓘ |
| developer |
Eric Monte
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael G. Moye NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endYear | 1979 ⓘ |
| featuresCast |
Danielle Spencer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ernest Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ Fred Berry NERFINISHED ⓘ Haywood Nelson NERFINISHED ⓘ Mabel King NERFINISHED ⓘ Shirley Hemphill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| finalAired | 1979-04-28 ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1976-08-05 ⓘ |
| genre | sitcom ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Cooley High NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Dee Thomas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dwayne Nelson NERFINISHED ⓘ Frederick "Rerun" Stubbs NERFINISHED ⓘ Mabel Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ Roger "Raj" Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ Shirley Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| network | American Broadcasting Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 65 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 3 ⓘ |
| openingTheme | "What's Happening!!" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originallyAiredOn | prime time ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | ABC ⓘ |
| originalRunTimePerEpisode | 30 minutes ⓘ |
| pictureFormat | color ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Danielle Spencer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ernest Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ Ernest Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ Fred Berry NERFINISHED ⓘ Haywood Nelson NERFINISHED ⓘ Mabel King NERFINISHED ⓘ Shirley Hemphill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereYear | 1976 ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Bud Yorkin Productions
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
TOY Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| spinOff | What's Happening Now!! NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| themeMusicComposer | Henry Mancini NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | 1970s ⓘ |
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: What's Happening!! Description of subject: "What's Happening!!" is a 1970s American sitcom loosely based on the film "Cooley High," following the comedic everyday lives of three African-American teenagers in Los Angeles.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
What’s Happening!!
this entity surface form:
What’s Happening!! (TV series)
this entity surface form:
What’s Happening!!