Dilbert
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Dilbert is a satirical comic strip centered on the absurdities of corporate office culture, created by cartoonist Scott Adams.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dilbert canonical | 16 |
| Dilbert (TV series) | 4 |
| Dilbert comic strip | 3 |
| Dilbert (character) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4901274 — 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: Dilbert Context triple: [Scott Adams, notableWork, Dilbert]
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A.
Calvin and Hobbes
Calvin and Hobbes is a widely acclaimed comic strip by Bill Watterson that follows the imaginative adventures of a mischievous boy and his stuffed tiger, blending humor with philosophical and social commentary.
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B.
Scott Adams
Scott Adams is an American cartoonist best known as the creator of the satirical office-themed comic strip "Dilbert."
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C.
The Tick
The Tick is a satirical superhero character best known from the cult-favorite live-action TV series in which Patrick Warburton portrayed the absurdly earnest, nigh-invulnerable blue-costumed crimefighter.
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D.
Randall Munroe
Randall Munroe is an American cartoonist, author, and former NASA roboticist best known as the creator of the webcomic xkcd.
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E.
The Boondocks
The Boondocks is an animated television series known for its sharp social and political satire centered on a Black family navigating life in a predominantly white suburb.
- 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: Dilbert Target entity description: Dilbert is a satirical comic strip centered on the absurdities of corporate office culture, created by cartoonist Scott Adams.
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A.
Calvin and Hobbes
Calvin and Hobbes is a widely acclaimed comic strip by Bill Watterson that follows the imaginative adventures of a mischievous boy and his stuffed tiger, blending humor with philosophical and social commentary.
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B.
Scott Adams
Scott Adams is an American cartoonist best known as the creator of the satirical office-themed comic strip "Dilbert."
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C.
The Tick
The Tick is a satirical superhero character best known from the cult-favorite live-action TV series in which Patrick Warburton portrayed the absurdly earnest, nigh-invulnerable blue-costumed crimefighter.
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D.
Randall Munroe
Randall Munroe is an American cartoonist, author, and former NASA roboticist best known as the creator of the webcomic xkcd.
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E.
The Boondocks
The Boondocks is an animated television series known for its sharp social and political satire centered on a Black family navigating life in a predominantly white suburb.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
animated television series
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cartooning award ⓘ cartoonist ⓘ comic strip ⓘ humor book ⓘ |
| author | Scott Adams ⓘ |
| awarded | Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year ⓘ |
| basedOn | Dilbert ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| creator | Scott Adams ⓘ |
| distributedIn | newspapers worldwide ⓘ |
| endDate | 2000-07-25 ⓘ |
| firstAirDate | 1999-01-25 ⓘ |
| firstPublicationDate | 1989-04-16 ⓘ |
| genre |
gag-a-day comic strip
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satirical comic strip ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Dilbert (TV series)
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linked to:
Dilbert
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| hasCollectedEdition | The Dilbert Principle ⓘ |
| hasSundayEdition | yes ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://dilbert.com ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Alice
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Catbert ⓘ Dilbert (character) ⓘ
linked to:
Dilbert
Dogbert ⓘ Pointy-Haired Boss ⓘ Wally ⓘ |
| medium |
newspaper comic strip
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online comic strip ⓘ |
| notableFor |
portrayal of dysfunctional workplaces
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satire of corporate management practices ⓘ |
| notableWork | Dilbert ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | UPN ⓘ |
| peakNewspaperCount | over 2,000 newspapers ⓘ |
| periodicity | daily ⓘ |
| presentedTo | Scott Adams ⓘ |
| publisherOfCollections | Andrews McMeel Publishing ⓘ |
| setting | corporate office ⓘ |
| style | single-line punchline ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
engineering and technology companies
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white-collar office work ⓘ |
| syndicate | United Feature Syndicate ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| theme |
corporate culture
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management incompetence ⓘ office politics ⓘ technology and engineering work ⓘ |
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: Dilbert Description of subject: Dilbert is a satirical comic strip centered on the absurdities of corporate office culture, created by cartoonist Scott Adams.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Dilbert
linked to: Dilbert
linked to: Dilbert
subject linked to:
Dilbert
subject linked to:
Dilbert first published in 1989
subject linked to:
Dilbert first published in 1989
linked to: Dilbert
subject linked to:
Dilbert first published in 1989
linked to: Dilbert
linked to: Dilbert
linked to: Dilbert
linked to: Dilbert
subject linked to:
Shelly Miles (divorced)