A Different World
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A Different World is an American sitcom that aired from 1987 to 1993, focusing on the lives of students at the fictional historically Black Hillman College and addressing social and cultural issues.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T544390 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Different World Context triple: [Bill Cosby, notableWork, A Different World]
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A.
The Cosby Show
The Cosby Show is a landmark American sitcom that aired in the 1980s and early 1990s, portraying an upper-middle-class African American family and significantly influencing television representation and culture.
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B.
Diff'rent Strokes
Diff'rent Strokes is an American sitcom that aired from 1978 to 1986, following the lives of two African-American brothers adopted by a wealthy white widower in New York City.
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C.
The Facts of Life
The Facts of Life is an American sitcom that follows a group of girls at a boarding school and their housemother, known for its coming-of-age themes and long run on television in the 1980s.
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D.
Moesha
Moesha is an American television sitcom that aired in the late 1990s and early 2000s, following the life of a teenage girl navigating family, friendships, and growing up in Los Angeles.
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E.
Sanford and Son
Sanford and Son is a classic 1970s American sitcom about a cantankerous junk dealer and his long-suffering son, renowned for its sharp humor and cultural impact.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Different World Target entity description: A Different World is an American sitcom that aired from 1987 to 1993, focusing on the lives of students at the fictional historically Black Hillman College and addressing social and cultural issues.
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A.
The Cosby Show
The Cosby Show is a landmark American sitcom that aired in the 1980s and early 1990s, portraying an upper-middle-class African American family and significantly influencing television representation and culture.
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B.
Diff'rent Strokes
Diff'rent Strokes is an American sitcom that aired from 1978 to 1986, following the lives of two African-American brothers adopted by a wealthy white widower in New York City.
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C.
The Facts of Life
The Facts of Life is an American sitcom that follows a group of girls at a boarding school and their housemother, known for its coming-of-age themes and long run on television in the 1980s.
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D.
Moesha
Moesha is an American television sitcom that aired in the late 1990s and early 2000s, following the life of a teenage girl navigating family, friendships, and growing up in Los Angeles.
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E.
Sanford and Son
Sanford and Son is a classic 1970s American sitcom about a cantankerous junk dealer and his long-suffering son, renowned for its sharp humor and cultural impact.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: A Different World Description of subject: A Different World is an American sitcom that aired from 1987 to 1993, focusing on the lives of students at the fictional historically Black Hillman College and addressing social and cultural issues.
Referenced by (52)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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A Different World theme song
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A Different World (TV series)
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A Different World season 1
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A Different World season 1
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A Different World, Season 1
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A Different World Season 2
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A Different World Season 3
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A Different World Season 4
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A Different World Season 5
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A Different World Season 6