Jonny Quest
E269730
American television series
adventure television series
animated television series
science fiction television series
Jonny Quest is a classic 1960s animated adventure television series following a young boy and his companions as they travel the world solving mysteries and battling villains.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jonny Quest canonical | 4 |
| Jonny Quest (character) | 1 |
| Jonny Quest (character) is the young protagonist | 1 |
| Jonny Quest (voice) | 1 |
| Jonny Quest in Jonny Quest | 1 |
| The New Adventures of Jonny Quest | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2470620 — 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: Jonny Quest Context triple: [Hanna-Barbera, notableWork, Jonny Quest]
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A.
Whiz Kids
The Whiz Kids were the young, upstart Philadelphia Phillies team that captured the National League pennant and reached the 1950 World Series.
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B.
Dexter's Laboratory
Dexter's Laboratory is an American animated television series about a boy genius and his secret laboratory, known for helping establish Cartoon Network's early original programming lineup.
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C.
Lab Rats
Lab Rats is a live-action Disney XD comedy series about a teenager who discovers three super-powered bionic siblings living in his basement and joins them on high-tech adventures.
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D.
Dora
Dora is the given name of Dora Sigerson Shorter, an Irish poet associated with the late 19th- and early 20th-century literary revival.
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E.
Bob (TV series)
Bob (TV series) is an American sitcom starring comedian Bob Newhart as a comic book artist, which aired on CBS in the early 1990s.
- 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: Jonny Quest Target entity description: Jonny Quest is a classic 1960s animated adventure television series following a young boy and his companions as they travel the world solving mysteries and battling villains.
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A.
Whiz Kids
The Whiz Kids were the young, upstart Philadelphia Phillies team that captured the National League pennant and reached the 1950 World Series.
-
B.
Dexter's Laboratory
Dexter's Laboratory is an American animated television series about a boy genius and his secret laboratory, known for helping establish Cartoon Network's early original programming lineup.
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C.
Lab Rats
Lab Rats is a live-action Disney XD comedy series about a teenager who discovers three super-powered bionic siblings living in his basement and joins them on high-tech adventures.
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D.
Dora
Dora is the given name of Dora Sigerson Shorter, an Irish poet associated with the late 19th- and early 20th-century literary revival.
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E.
Bob (TV series)
Bob (TV series) is an American sitcom starring comedian Bob Newhart as a comic book artist, which aired on CBS in the early 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American television series
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adventure television series ⓘ animated television series ⓘ science fiction television series ⓘ |
| audioFormat | mono ⓘ |
| basedOn | earlier radio and adventure-serial traditions ⓘ |
| broadcastFormat | half-hour episodes ⓘ |
| characterRole |
Bandit (dog) is Jonny’s pet bulldog
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Dr. Benton Quest is Jonny’s scientist father ⓘ Hadji is Jonny’s adopted brother and friend ⓘ Jonny Quest self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Jonny Quest (character) is the young protagonist
Race Bannon is the bodyguard and government agent ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Doug Wildey ⓘ |
| developer |
Hanna-Barbera
ⓘ
surface form:
Hanna-Barbera Productions
|
| distributor | Screen Gems ⓘ |
| features |
battles against villains
ⓘ
mystery-solving plots ⓘ science-fictional gadgets and inventions ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1964-09-18 ⓘ |
| followedBy |
Jonny Quest
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
The New Adventures of Jonny Quest
|
| genre |
adventure
ⓘ
science fiction ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter |
Bandit (dog)
ⓘ
Dr. Benton Quest ⓘ Hadji ⓘ Jonny Quest self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Jonny Quest (character)
Race Bannon ⓘ |
| hasSpinOff |
The New Adventures of Jonny Quest
ⓘ
The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest ⓘ |
| lastAired | 1965-03-11 ⓘ |
| musicBy | Hoyt Curtin ⓘ |
| notableFor |
action-oriented storytelling
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realistic art style for a 1960s cartoon ⓘ use of science and technology themes ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 26 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 1 ⓘ |
| openingTheme | Jonny Quest Theme ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originallyBroadcastInDecade | 1960s ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | ABC ⓘ |
| pictureFormat |
black-and-white (initial ABC broadcasts in some markets)
ⓘ
color (later broadcasts and syndication) ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Hanna-Barbera
ⓘ
surface form:
Hanna-Barbera Productions
|
| setting | various international locations ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
children
ⓘ
family ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Jonny Quest Description of subject: Jonny Quest is a classic 1960s animated adventure television series following a young boy and his companions as they travel the world solving mysteries and battling villains.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jonny Quest (voice)
this entity surface form:
Jonny Quest in Jonny Quest
this entity surface form:
Jonny Quest (character)
this entity surface form:
Jonny Quest (character) is the young protagonist
this entity surface form:
The New Adventures of Jonny Quest