Yobo
E201043
Yobo is a fictional character from "The Norby Chronicles," a science fiction series by Janet and Isaac Asimov centered on the adventures of a quirky robot and his human companion.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yobo canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1799948 — 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: Yobo Context triple: [The Norby Chronicles, hasCharacter, Yobo]
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A.
Wyoma
Wyoma is a residential neighborhood located within the city of Lynn in northeastern Massachusetts.
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B.
Yalli
Yalli is a traditional Azerbaijani group folk dance characterized by dancers holding hands or shoulders and moving in synchronized circular or linear formations.
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C.
Owaneco
Owaneco was a prominent Mohegan sachem (chief) known for his leadership and land dealings in colonial New England during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
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D.
Yahi
The Yahi were a small Native American group from northern California, known for being among the last surviving independent Indigenous peoples in the region and for the story of Ishi, their last known member.
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E.
Gassel
Gassel is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant, known historically as a separate municipality before being incorporated into a larger administrative unit.
- 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: Yobo Target entity description: Yobo is a fictional character from "The Norby Chronicles," a science fiction series by Janet and Isaac Asimov centered on the adventures of a quirky robot and his human companion.
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A.
Wyoma
Wyoma is a residential neighborhood located within the city of Lynn in northeastern Massachusetts.
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B.
Yalli
Yalli is a traditional Azerbaijani group folk dance characterized by dancers holding hands or shoulders and moving in synchronized circular or linear formations.
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C.
Owaneco
Owaneco was a prominent Mohegan sachem (chief) known for his leadership and land dealings in colonial New England during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
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D.
Yahi
The Yahi were a small Native American group from northern California, known for being among the last surviving independent Indigenous peoples in the region and for the story of Ishi, their last known member.
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E.
Gassel
Gassel is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant, known historically as a separate municipality before being incorporated into a larger administrative unit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in literature
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries |
The Norby Chronicles
ⓘ
surface form:
Norby series
|
| appearsInWork | The Norby Chronicles ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Norby
ⓘ
Norby’s human companion ⓘ |
| basedOn | original concept by Janet and Isaac Asimov ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy |
Isaac Asimov
ⓘ
Janet Asimov ⓘ |
| describedAs | character in a science fiction series centered on a quirky robot and his human companion ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| hasCanonicalStatus | canonical character in The Norby Chronicles ⓘ |
| hasCreatorRole | author ⓘ |
| hasFictionalUniverse |
The Norby Chronicles
ⓘ
surface form:
The Norby Chronicles fictional universe
|
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literarySeriesAuthor |
Janet Asimov
ⓘ
surface form:
Janet Asimov and Isaac Asimov
|
| medium | novel series ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | supporting character ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalUniverse |
The Norby Chronicles
ⓘ
surface form:
Norby universe
|
| publicationCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| settingGenre | space adventure ⓘ |
| targetAudience | young readers ⓘ |
| workForm | prose fiction ⓘ |
| workType | children’s science fiction literature ⓘ |
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: Yobo Description of subject: Yobo is a fictional character from "The Norby Chronicles," a science fiction series by Janet and Isaac Asimov centered on the adventures of a quirky robot and his human companion.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.