My Mother the Car
E816406
My Mother the Car is a 1960s American fantasy sitcom about a man whose deceased mother is reincarnated as his talking antique automobile.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| My Mother the Car canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9720849 — 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 Mother the Car Context triple: [Rod Amateau, notableWork, My Mother the Car]
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A.
The Back Seat of My Car
"The Back Seat of My Car" is a whimsical, melodic pop song by Paul McCartney and Wings, known for its lush orchestration and appearance as the closing track on the 1971 album *Ram*.
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B.
The God in the Car
The God in the Car is a late 19th-century political and adventure novel by British author Anthony Hope, known for its themes of ambition, power, and moral compromise.
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C.
No Cars Go
"No Cars Go" is a soaring, anthemic indie rock song by Arcade Fire, known for its expansive arrangement and themes of escape and transcendence.
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D.
Shut Up and Drive
"Shut Up and Drive" is an uptempo dance-pop and rock-influenced song by Rihanna known for its car-themed metaphors and energetic, radio-friendly production.
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E.
Hands on the Wheel
"Hands on the Wheel" is a country song featured on Willie Nelson’s landmark concept album *Red Headed Stranger*.
- 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 Mother the Car Target entity description: My Mother the Car is a 1960s American fantasy sitcom about a man whose deceased mother is reincarnated as his talking antique automobile.
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A.
The Back Seat of My Car
"The Back Seat of My Car" is a whimsical, melodic pop song by Paul McCartney and Wings, known for its lush orchestration and appearance as the closing track on the 1971 album *Ram*.
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B.
The God in the Car
The God in the Car is a late 19th-century political and adventure novel by British author Anthony Hope, known for its themes of ambition, power, and moral compromise.
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C.
No Cars Go
"No Cars Go" is a soaring, anthemic indie rock song by Arcade Fire, known for its expansive arrangement and themes of escape and transcendence.
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D.
Shut Up and Drive
"Shut Up and Drive" is an uptempo dance-pop and rock-influenced song by Rihanna known for its car-themed metaphors and energetic, radio-friendly production.
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E.
Hands on the Wheel
"Hands on the Wheel" is a country song featured on Willie Nelson’s landmark concept album *Red Headed Stranger*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fantasy sitcom
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television series ⓘ |
| broadcastOn | NBC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Annabelle Crabtree
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Captain Manzini NERFINISHED ⓘ Cindy Crabtree NERFINISHED ⓘ David Crabtree NERFINISHED ⓘ Gladys Crabtree NERFINISHED ⓘ Randy Crabtree NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy |
Allan Burns
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chris Hayward NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| decadeOfRelease | 1960s ⓘ |
| executiveProducer | Rod Amateau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresVehicle | 1928 Porter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| finalAired | 1966-04-05 ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1965-09-14 ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy television series
ⓘ
sitcom ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | true ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
reincarnation
ⓘ
talking car ⓘ |
| mediaType | television ⓘ |
| motherVoiceActor | Ann Sothern NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 30 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 1 ⓘ |
| openingTheme | "My Mother the Car" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | NBC ⓘ |
| originalRunEndYear | 1966 ⓘ |
| originalRunStartYear | 1965 ⓘ |
| pictureFormat | black-and-white ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A man discovers that his deceased mother has been reincarnated as his talking antique car. ⓘ |
| productionCompany | United Artists Television NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runtimePerEpisode | 25 minutes ⓘ |
| setIn | California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Ann Sothern
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Avery Schreiber NERFINISHED ⓘ Cindy Eilbacher NERFINISHED ⓘ Jerry Van Dyke NERFINISHED ⓘ Maggie Pierce NERFINISHED ⓘ Rance Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| themeMusicComposer | Randy Newman 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: My Mother the Car Description of subject: My Mother the Car is a 1960s American fantasy sitcom about a man whose deceased mother is reincarnated as his talking antique automobile.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.