Mr. Bobo
E625835
Mr. Bobo is an eccentric, retired circus performer who lives upstairs from Coraline and obsessively trains a troupe of jumping mice in Neil Gaiman’s novella "Coraline."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mr. Bobo canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6875306 — 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: Mr. Bobo Context triple: [Coraline, hasCharacter, Mr. Bobo]
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A.
Bobo
Bobo is a major Mande language spoken primarily in parts of West Africa, notably in Burkina Faso and Mali.
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B.
Bozo
Bozo is a Mande language spoken primarily by the Bozo people of Mali, especially along the Niger River.
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C.
Bosley
Bosley is a surname most famously associated with American actor Tom Bosley, known for his role as Howard Cunningham on the television series "Happy Days."
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D.
Babo
Babo is a central character in Herman Melville’s novella "Benito Cereno," known as the cunning leader of a slave revolt who manipulates appearances aboard a Spanish slave ship.
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E.
Charlie Bubbles
Charlie Bubbles is a 1967 British comedy-drama film, directed by and starring Albert Finney, noted for its portrayal of a disillusioned writer returning to his Northern England roots.
- 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: Mr. Bobo Target entity description: Mr. Bobo is an eccentric, retired circus performer who lives upstairs from Coraline and obsessively trains a troupe of jumping mice in Neil Gaiman’s novella "Coraline."
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A.
Bobo
Bobo is a major Mande language spoken primarily in parts of West Africa, notably in Burkina Faso and Mali.
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B.
Bozo
Bozo is a Mande language spoken primarily by the Bozo people of Mali, especially along the Niger River.
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C.
Bosley
Bosley is a surname most famously associated with American actor Tom Bosley, known for his role as Howard Cunningham on the television series "Happy Days."
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D.
Babo
Babo is a central character in Herman Melville’s novella "Benito Cereno," known as the cunning leader of a slave revolt who manipulates appearances aboard a Spanish slave ship.
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E.
Charlie Bubbles
Charlie Bubbles is a 1967 British comedy-drama film, directed by and starring Albert Finney, noted for its portrayal of a disillusioned writer returning to his Northern England roots.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Coraline ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | literature ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkPublicationYear | 2002 ⓘ |
| buildingRole | upstairs tenant ⓘ |
| characterIn | novella ⓘ |
| communicatesWith | Coraline Jones ⓘ |
| creator | Neil Gaiman ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Coraline universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Coraline
|
| genreContext |
children's horror
ⓘ
dark fantasy ⓘ |
| givesWarningTo | Coraline Jones ⓘ |
| hasNameTitle | Mr. ⓘ |
| hasPet | jumping mice ⓘ |
| livesInSameHouseAs | Miss Spink and Miss Forcible ⓘ |
| nationality | unspecified ⓘ |
| neighborOf | Coraline Jones ⓘ |
| occupation |
mouse trainer
ⓘ
retired circus performer ⓘ |
| personalityTrait | eccentric ⓘ |
| relationshipToProtagonist |
minor ally
ⓘ
neighbor ⓘ |
| residence | apartment above Coraline Jones ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| trains | jumping mice ⓘ |
| warningMedium | jumping mice ⓘ |
| workTitle | Coraline ⓘ |
| workType | dark fantasy novella ⓘ |
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: Mr. Bobo Description of subject: Mr. Bobo is an eccentric, retired circus performer who lives upstairs from Coraline and obsessively trains a troupe of jumping mice in Neil Gaiman’s novella "Coraline."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.