It's clobberin' time!
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"It's clobberin' time!" is the iconic battle cry shouted by the Marvel Comics character Ben Grimm, also known as the Thing of the Fantastic Four, before charging into a fight.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| It's clobberin' time! canonical | 3 |
| It’s clobberin’ time! | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12996105 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: It's clobberin' time! Context triple: [Ben Grimm, catchphrase, It's clobberin' time!]
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A.
Let's get ready to rumble!
"Let's get ready to rumble!" is a famous boxing and sports-event catchphrase popularized by ring announcer Michael Buffer and widely used to hype up audiences before major fights and competitions.
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B.
Smashing Time
Smashing Time is a 1967 British satirical comedy film that parodies Swinging London’s fashion and pop culture scene.
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C.
Bludgeon Riffola
Bludgeon Riffola is Def Leppard’s own independent record label, created to release and manage the band’s music.
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D.
Hittin
Hittin is a historic village site in northern Israel, best known as the location near the Horns of Hattin where Saladin decisively defeated the Crusaders in 1187.
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E.
Thunderclap
Thunderclap is a vast, nightmarish wasteland in Stephen King’s Dark Tower universe, infamous for its deadly hazards, warped reality, and role as a major obstacle on the path to the Dark Tower.
- 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: It's clobberin' time! Target entity description: "It's clobberin' time!" is the iconic battle cry shouted by the Marvel Comics character Ben Grimm, also known as the Thing of the Fantastic Four, before charging into a fight.
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A.
Let's get ready to rumble!
"Let's get ready to rumble!" is a famous boxing and sports-event catchphrase popularized by ring announcer Michael Buffer and widely used to hype up audiences before major fights and competitions.
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B.
Smashing Time
Smashing Time is a 1967 British satirical comedy film that parodies Swinging London’s fashion and pop culture scene.
-
C.
Bludgeon Riffola
Bludgeon Riffola is Def Leppard’s own independent record label, created to release and manage the band’s music.
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D.
Hittin
Hittin is a historic village site in northern Israel, best known as the location near the Horns of Hattin where Saladin decisively defeated the Crusaders in 1187.
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E.
Thunderclap
Thunderclap is a vast, nightmarish wasteland in Stephen King’s Dark Tower universe, infamous for its deadly hazards, warped reality, and role as a major obstacle on the path to the Dark Tower.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
battle cry
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comic book catchphrase ⓘ fictional catchphrase ⓘ |
| associatedTeam | Fantastic Four ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacterTrait |
brashness
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determination ⓘ toughness ⓘ |
| associatedWithPowerType | superhuman strength ⓘ |
| catchphraseOfTeam |
Fantastic Four (informally through the Thing)
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linked to:
Fantastic Four
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| characterAliasContext |
Ben Grimm is also known as the Thing
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linked to:
Ben Grimm
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| culturalStatus | iconic Marvel Comics catchphrase ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Earth-616 (primary Marvel Comics continuity)
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linked to:
Earth-616
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| genreContext | superhero fiction ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium |
animated adaptations
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comic books ⓘ live-action film adaptations ⓘ |
| notableSpeaker |
Jamie Bell as the Thing in Fantastic Four (2015 film)
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Michael Chiklis as the Thing in Fantastic Four (2005 film) ⓘ |
| publisherUniverse | Marvel Universe ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
pre-fight taunt
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superhero one-liner ⓘ |
| typicalContext | shouted before charging into a fight ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Ben Grimm
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The Thing ⓘ |
| usedFor |
comic relief in battle scenes
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intimidating opponents ⓘ signaling the start of a fight ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Fantastic Four comics
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linked to:
Fantastic Four (various issues)
Marvel Comics ⓘ |
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: It's clobberin' time! Description of subject: "It's clobberin' time!" is the iconic battle cry shouted by the Marvel Comics character Ben Grimm, also known as the Thing of the Fantastic Four, before charging into a fight.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: It's clobberin' time!