Jimmy Chance
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Jimmy Chance is the well-meaning but hapless young father and protagonist of the sitcom "Raising Hope," who unexpectedly finds himself raising his infant daughter with the help of his eccentric family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jimmy Chance canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7257053 — 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: Jimmy Chance Context triple: [Raising Hope, mainCharacter, Jimmy Chance]
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A.
Ray Blanton
Ray Blanton was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Tennessee in the late 1970s and became notorious for a clemency scandal involving the controversial pardoning of prisoners.
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B.
Jack Gariss
Jack Gariss was an American screenwriter best known for his work on major mid-20th-century Hollywood films, including contributing to the script of Cecil B. DeMille’s epic "The Ten Commandments" (1956).
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C.
Jimmy Chambers
Jimmy Chambers is a British singer and songwriter best known as a member of the band Londonbeat, contributing to their international hit "I've Been Thinking About You."
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D.
Chet Cunningham
Chet Cunningham was a prolific American author best known for his numerous Westerns, military thrillers, and action-adventure novels.
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E.
Charlie Allnut
Charlie Allnut is the rough-edged but good-hearted Canadian boat captain from the classic film "The African Queen," known for his unlikely partnership and romance with a prim missionary during World War I.
- 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: Jimmy Chance Target entity description: Jimmy Chance is the well-meaning but hapless young father and protagonist of the sitcom "Raising Hope," who unexpectedly finds himself raising his infant daughter with the help of his eccentric family.
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A.
Ray Blanton
Ray Blanton was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of Tennessee in the late 1970s and became notorious for a clemency scandal involving the controversial pardoning of prisoners.
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B.
Jack Gariss
Jack Gariss was an American screenwriter best known for his work on major mid-20th-century Hollywood films, including contributing to the script of Cecil B. DeMille’s epic "The Ten Commandments" (1956).
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C.
Jimmy Chambers
Jimmy Chambers is a British singer and songwriter best known as a member of the band Londonbeat, contributing to their international hit "I've Been Thinking About You."
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D.
Chet Cunningham
Chet Cunningham was a prolific American author best known for his numerous Westerns, military thrillers, and action-adventure novels.
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E.
Charlie Allnut
Charlie Allnut is the rough-edged but good-hearted Canadian boat captain from the classic film "The African Queen," known for his unlikely partnership and romance with a prim missionary during World War I.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| ageAtSeriesStart | 23 ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Raising Hope NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | Greg Garcia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Chance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyNameOfFamily | Chance family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalLocation | Natesville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Raising Hope universe ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Raising Hope season 1 episode 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | James Chance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | sitcom ⓘ |
| givenName | Jimmy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | Hope Chance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFather | Burt Chance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGrandmother | Barbara June "Maw Maw" Thompson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLoveInterest | Sabrina Collins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMother | Virginia Chance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isProtagonistOf | Raising Hope NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfCharacter | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | single at beginning of series ⓘ |
| networkOfOriginalBroadcast | Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
becomes a single father unexpectedly
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raises his daughter with help from his eccentric family ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawn care worker
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pool cleaner ⓘ |
| parentOf | Hope Chance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
hapless
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well-meaning ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Lucas Neff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primarySettingOfLife | Chance family home in Natesville ⓘ |
| residence | Natesville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleIn | Raising Hope NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| themeInStory |
intergenerational family dynamics
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working-class family life ⓘ young parenthood ⓘ |
| worksWith | Sabrina Collins 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: Jimmy Chance Description of subject: Jimmy Chance is the well-meaning but hapless young father and protagonist of the sitcom "Raising Hope," who unexpectedly finds himself raising his infant daughter with the help of his eccentric family.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.