Magilla Gorilla
E269735
Magilla Gorilla is a classic Hanna-Barbera animated television character, a lovable but trouble-prone gorilla often featured in comedic situations involving his attempts to find a permanent home.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Johnny is a gorilla singer | 1 |
| Magilla Gorilla canonical | 1 |
| The Magilla Gorilla Show | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2470625 — 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: Magilla Gorilla Context triple: [Hanna-Barbera, notableWork, Magilla Gorilla]
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A.
Pogo Poole
Pogo Poole is the charming, witty, and free-spirited protagonist of the play and film "The Pleasure of His Company," known for disrupting his daughter's orderly life when he reenters her world.
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B.
Mr. Magoo
Mr. Magoo is a near-sighted, bumbling cartoon character known for getting into comical misadventures due to his poor vision.
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C.
Garfield
Garfield is best known as the 20th president of the United States, whose term in 1881 was cut short by assassination.
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D.
Kermit
Kermit is a masculine given name most famously associated with the Muppet frog character created by Jim Henson.
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E.
Ernie
Ernie is a common diminutive form of the given name Ernest, often used as a familiar or affectionate nickname.
- 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: Magilla Gorilla Target entity description: Magilla Gorilla is a classic Hanna-Barbera animated television character, a lovable but trouble-prone gorilla often featured in comedic situations involving his attempts to find a permanent home.
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A.
Pogo Poole
Pogo Poole is the charming, witty, and free-spirited protagonist of the play and film "The Pleasure of His Company," known for disrupting his daughter's orderly life when he reenters her world.
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B.
Mr. Magoo
Mr. Magoo is a near-sighted, bumbling cartoon character known for getting into comical misadventures due to his poor vision.
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C.
Garfield
Garfield is best known as the 20th president of the United States, whose term in 1881 was cut short by assassination.
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D.
Kermit
Kermit is a masculine given name most famously associated with the Muppet frog character created by Jim Henson.
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E.
Ernie
Ernie is a common diminutive form of the given name Ernest, often used as a familiar or affectionate nickname.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
animated character
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ television character ⓘ |
| airedInDecade | 1960s ⓘ |
| animationStyle | limited animation ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
ⓘ
Laff-A-Lympics ⓘ Magilla Gorilla self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The Magilla Gorilla Show
Yogi's Ark Lark ⓘ Yogi’s Gang ⓘ
surface form:
Yogi's Gang
|
| characterTrait |
good-natured
ⓘ
lovable ⓘ trouble-prone ⓘ |
| colorScheme | purple fur ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator |
Hanna-Barbera
ⓘ
surface form:
Hanna-Barbera Productions
Joseph Barbera ⓘ William Hanna ⓘ |
| firstBroadcastYear | 1964 ⓘ |
| franchise | Hanna-Barbera ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
animated comedy
ⓘ
children's television ⓘ |
| hasMerchandise |
comic books
ⓘ
lunch boxes ⓘ toys ⓘ |
| hasSpinOffOrSegment |
Punkin' Puss & Mushmouse
ⓘ
Ricochet Rabbit & Droop-a-Long ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Hanna-Barbera
ⓘ
surface form:
Hanna-Barbera cartoon universe
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| notableCatchphrase | We'll try again next time ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
often wears suspenders
ⓘ
wears a bow tie ⓘ wears a hat ⓘ |
| occupation | pet ⓘ |
| oftenInteractsWith | Ogee ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | ABC ⓘ |
| originalRunEndYear | 1967 ⓘ |
| originalRunStartYear | 1964 ⓘ |
| owner | Mr. Peebles ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Allan Melvin ⓘ |
| primarySetting | Mr. Peebles' pet shop ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Hanna-Barbera
ⓘ
surface form:
Hanna-Barbera Productions
|
| species | gorilla ⓘ |
| targetAudience | children ⓘ |
| theme | search for a permanent home ⓘ |
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: Magilla Gorilla Description of subject: Magilla Gorilla is a classic Hanna-Barbera animated television character, a lovable but trouble-prone gorilla often featured in comedic situations involving his attempts to find a permanent home.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Johnny is a gorilla singer
this entity surface form:
The Magilla Gorilla Show