Scruffy
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Scruffy is the laconic, mustachioed janitor of Planet Express in the animated television series Futurama.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scruffy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9565207 — 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: Scruffy Context triple: [Futurama, hasCharacter, Scruffy]
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A.
Petey
Petey is a diminutive nickname commonly used for people named Peter.
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B.
Odie
Odie is the lovable, dim-witted yellow dog from the Garfield franchise, known for his boundless energy, slobbery affection, and frequent role as Garfield’s hapless sidekick.
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C.
Mr. Whiskers
Mr. Whiskers is the talking, psychopathic cat companion voiced by Ryan Reynolds in the dark comedy film "The Voices."
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D.
Shipoopi
"Shipoopi" is a lively, comedic show tune from the classic Broadway musical and film The Music Man, known for its energetic dance number and humorous lyrics about courtship.
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E.
Shep
Shep is the station code used to identify Sheppard–Yonge station in the Toronto subway system.
- 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: Scruffy Target entity description: Scruffy is the laconic, mustachioed janitor of Planet Express in the animated television series Futurama.
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A.
Petey
Petey is a diminutive nickname commonly used for people named Peter.
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B.
Odie
Odie is the lovable, dim-witted yellow dog from the Garfield franchise, known for his boundless energy, slobbery affection, and frequent role as Garfield’s hapless sidekick.
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C.
Mr. Whiskers
Mr. Whiskers is the talking, psychopathic cat companion voiced by Ryan Reynolds in the dark comedy film "The Voices."
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D.
Shipoopi
"Shipoopi" is a lively, comedic show tune from the classic Broadway musical and film The Music Man, known for its energetic dance number and humorous lyrics about courtship.
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E.
Shep
Shep is the station code used to identify Sheppard–Yonge station in the Toronto subway system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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janitor ⓘ television character ⓘ |
| alignment | good ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Futurama
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Futurama: Bender's Big Score NERFINISHED ⓘ Futurama: Bender's Game NERFINISHED ⓘ Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder NERFINISHED ⓘ Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Amy Wong
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bender Bending Rodríguez NERFINISHED ⓘ Dr. John Zoidberg NERFINISHED ⓘ Hermes Conrad NERFINISHED ⓘ Philip J. Fry NERFINISHED ⓘ Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth NERFINISHED ⓘ Turanga Leela NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| catchphrase |
Scruffy believes in this company.
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Scruffy's gonna die the way he lived. ⓘ |
| createdBy |
David X. Cohen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Matt Groening NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Planet Express NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| facialHair | mustache ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Futurama universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Futurama season 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Scruffy Scruffington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction comedy ⓘ |
| hairColor | brown ⓘ |
| hasResidence | Planet Express building basement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| loyalTo |
Planet Express
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Planet Express crew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | animated television series ⓘ |
| nationality | Earthican ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
frequently refers to himself in the third person
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often reads pornographic magazines at work ⓘ rarely speaks unless necessary ⓘ |
| occupation | janitor ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
apathetic
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deadpan ⓘ laconic ⓘ |
| roleAtPlanetExpress |
custodial work
ⓘ
maintenance ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| voiceType | gravelly ⓘ |
| worksAtLocation | Planet Express headquarters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worksFor | Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Scruffy Description of subject: Scruffy is the laconic, mustachioed janitor of Planet Express in the animated television series Futurama.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.