What About Bob?
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What About Bob? is a 1991 comedy film about a neurotic patient who hilariously disrupts his uptight psychiatrist’s family vacation, starring Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| What About Bob? canonical | 23 |
| What About Bob? (1991 film) | 4 |
| What About Bob? (1991) | 1 |
| What About Bob? (film, 1991) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T621876 — 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: What About Bob? Context triple: [Bill Murray, notableWork, What About Bob?]
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A.
The Jerk
The Jerk is a 1979 American comedy film starring Steve Martin as a naive, eccentric man whose rags-to-riches-to-rags journey showcases his signature absurdist humor.
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B.
Stir Crazy
Stir Crazy is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Sidney Poitier, best known for starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder as two friends wrongly imprisoned after being framed for a bank robbery.
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C.
Wayne's World
Wayne's World is a popular comedy franchise centered on two rock-obsessed slackers hosting a public-access TV show, best known from its hit 1992 film and recurring sketches.
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D.
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is a 2004 satirical comedy film that parodies 1970s television news culture through the absurd misadventures of an egotistical anchorman and his colleagues.
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E.
Ruthless People
Ruthless People is a 1986 dark comedy film about a botched kidnapping plot, starring Bette Midler, Danny DeVito, and Judge Reinhold.
- 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: What About Bob? Target entity description: What About Bob? is a 1991 comedy film about a neurotic patient who hilariously disrupts his uptight psychiatrist’s family vacation, starring Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss.
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A.
The Jerk
The Jerk is a 1979 American comedy film starring Steve Martin as a naive, eccentric man whose rags-to-riches-to-rags journey showcases his signature absurdist humor.
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B.
Stir Crazy
Stir Crazy is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Sidney Poitier, best known for starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder as two friends wrongly imprisoned after being framed for a bank robbery.
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C.
Wayne's World
Wayne's World is a popular comedy franchise centered on two rock-obsessed slackers hosting a public-access TV show, best known from its hit 1992 film and recurring sketches.
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D.
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is a 2004 satirical comedy film that parodies 1970s television news culture through the absurd misadventures of an egotistical anchorman and his colleagues.
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E.
Ruthless People
Ruthless People is a 1986 dark comedy film about a botched kidnapping plot, starring Bette Midler, Danny DeVito, and Judge Reinhold.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: What About Bob? Description of subject: What About Bob? is a 1991 comedy film about a neurotic patient who hilariously disrupts his uptight psychiatrist’s family vacation, starring Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
What About Bob? (1991 film)
this entity surface form:
What About Bob? (1991 film)
subject surface form:
Richard Dreyfuss
subject surface form:
Dr. Leo Marvin
subject surface form:
Dr. Leo Marvin
this entity surface form:
What About Bob? (1991)
this entity surface form:
What About Bob? (1991 film)
subject surface form:
Frank Oz
this entity surface form:
What About Bob? (1991 film)
this entity surface form:
What About Bob? (film, 1991)