Bob Day
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Bob Day is a fictional character in the TV series "New Girl," known as the somewhat overprotective and quirky father of protagonist Jessica Day.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bob Day canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11685674 — 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: Bob Day Context triple: [Jessica Day, parent, Bob Day]
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A.
Bud Day
Bud Day was a highly decorated United States Air Force colonel, Medal of Honor recipient, and Vietnam War fighter pilot who became one of America’s most renowned prisoners of war.
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B.
Richard Day
Richard Day was an acclaimed Hollywood art director and production designer known for his work on numerous classic films during the early to mid-20th century.
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C.
Dennis Day
Dennis Day was an American singer and comedic actor best known for his long-running role as the naive, sweet-voiced tenor on radio and television alongside Jack Benny.
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D.
Kenneth Dayes
Kenneth Dayes is a musician best known as a member of the Jamaican roots reggae band Culture.
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E.
Bob Dolman
Bob Dolman is a Canadian screenwriter, director, and producer best known for his work on fantasy and comedy films and television, including co-writing the cult classic movie "Willow."
- 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: Bob Day Target entity description: Bob Day is a fictional character in the TV series "New Girl," known as the somewhat overprotective and quirky father of protagonist Jessica Day.
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A.
Bud Day
Bud Day was a highly decorated United States Air Force colonel, Medal of Honor recipient, and Vietnam War fighter pilot who became one of America’s most renowned prisoners of war.
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B.
Richard Day
Richard Day was an acclaimed Hollywood art director and production designer known for his work on numerous classic films during the early to mid-20th century.
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C.
Dennis Day
Dennis Day was an American singer and comedic actor best known for his long-running role as the naive, sweet-voiced tenor on radio and television alongside Jack Benny.
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D.
Kenneth Dayes
Kenneth Dayes is a musician best known as a member of the Jamaican roots reggae band Culture.
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E.
Bob Dolman
Bob Dolman is a Canadian screenwriter, director, and producer best known for his work on fantasy and comedy films and television, including co-writing the cult classic movie "Willow."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | New Girl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
comedy
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sitcom ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
overprotective
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quirky ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginInStory | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdFor | television ⓘ |
| familyName | Day NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Bob NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | Jessica Day NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Jessica Day NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isFatherOf | Jessica Day NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
parent of protagonist
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supporting character ⓘ |
| occupation | father ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalUniverse | New Girl universe 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: Bob Day Description of subject: Bob Day is a fictional character in the TV series "New Girl," known as the somewhat overprotective and quirky father of protagonist Jessica Day.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.