My Friend Irma
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American film comedy
American radio comedy
feature film
fictional character
media franchise
radio program
My Friend Irma is a popular mid-20th-century American comedy franchise, best known as a radio and film series about a scatterbrained young woman and her friends.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| My Friend Irma canonical | 4 |
| My Friend Irma Goes West | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8500527 — 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: My Friend Irma Context triple: [Gigi Perreau, notableWork, My Friend Irma]
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A.
Irma Vep
Irma Vep is a French-American television miniseries that blends meta-cinema, crime, and dark comedy as it follows an actress remaking a classic silent-era vampire serial.
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B.
Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man
"Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man" is a humorous coming-of-age novel by Fannie Flagg that follows the quirky adventures of a young Southern girl growing up in mid-20th-century Mississippi.
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C.
The Girl Friend
The Girl Friend is a 1926 Broadway musical comedy with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart that helped establish their early success on the New York stage.
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D.
The Little Friend
The Little Friend is a 2002 novel by Donna Tartt that follows a young girl in Mississippi who becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind her brother’s long-unsolved murder.
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E.
Harry and the Hendersons
Harry and the Hendersons is a 1987 family comedy film about a suburban family that befriends a gentle Sasquatch, with John Lithgow starring as the father.
- 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: My Friend Irma Target entity description: My Friend Irma is a popular mid-20th-century American comedy franchise, best known as a radio and film series about a scatterbrained young woman and her friends.
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A.
Irma Vep
Irma Vep is a French-American television miniseries that blends meta-cinema, crime, and dark comedy as it follows an actress remaking a classic silent-era vampire serial.
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B.
Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man
"Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man" is a humorous coming-of-age novel by Fannie Flagg that follows the quirky adventures of a young Southern girl growing up in mid-20th-century Mississippi.
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C.
The Girl Friend
The Girl Friend is a 1926 Broadway musical comedy with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart that helped establish their early success on the New York stage.
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D.
The Little Friend
The Little Friend is a 2002 novel by Donna Tartt that follows a young girl in Mississippi who becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind her brother’s long-unsolved murder.
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E.
Harry and the Hendersons
Harry and the Hendersons is a 1987 family comedy film about a suburban family that befriends a gentle Sasquatch, with John Lithgow starring as the father.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film comedy
ⓘ
American radio comedy ⓘ feature film ⓘ fictional character ⓘ media franchise ⓘ radio program ⓘ |
| basedOn | My Friend Irma (radio series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait | scatterbrained ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator |
Cy Howard
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cy Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | George Marshall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 1954 ⓘ |
| format | 30-minute comedy ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
film comedy ⓘ radio comedy ⓘ situation comedy ⓘ situation comedy ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Al
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Al NERFINISHED ⓘ Irma Peterson NERFINISHED ⓘ Irma Peterson NERFINISHED ⓘ Jane Stacy NERFINISHED ⓘ Jane Stacy NERFINISHED ⓘ Mrs. O'Reilly NERFINISHED ⓘ Professor Kropotkin NERFINISHED ⓘ Professor Kropotkin NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Rhinelander III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
My Friend Irma (1949 film)
NERFINISHED
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My Friend Irma (radio series) NERFINISHED ⓘ My Friend Irma Goes West NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Irma Peterson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Irma Peterson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narratedBy | Jane Stacy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | first film appearance of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis ⓘ |
| originalLanguage |
English
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English ⓘ English ⓘ English ⓘ |
| originalMedium | radio ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | CBS Radio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Cy Howard
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hal B. Wallis ⓘ |
| releaseDate |
1949
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1950 ⓘ |
| roleIn |
My Friend Irma (1949 film)
NERFINISHED
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My Friend Irma (1949 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ My Friend Irma (radio series) NERFINISHED ⓘ My Friend Irma (radio series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Cy Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sequelTo | My Friend Irma (1949 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | New York City ⓘ |
| startTime |
1947
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1947 ⓘ |
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: My Friend Irma Description of subject: My Friend Irma is a popular mid-20th-century American comedy franchise, best known as a radio and film series about a scatterbrained young woman and her friends.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
My Friend Irma Goes West