Rob Petrie
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Rob Petrie is the witty, often flustered television comedy writer portrayed by Dick Van Dyke on the classic 1960s sitcom "The Dick Van Dyke Show."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rob Petrie canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10207059 — 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: Rob Petrie Context triple: [The Dick Van Dyke Show, mainCharacter, Rob Petrie]
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A.
Teddy Brewster
Teddy Brewster is a comically delusional character in the dark comedy play "Arsenic and Old Lace," who believes he is President Theodore Roosevelt and energetically reenacts his imagined military exploits.
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B.
Carroll Fenton
Carroll Fenton was an American paleontologist and prolific science writer known for his popular books and illustrations on prehistoric life and geology.
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C.
Mortimer Brewster
Mortimer Brewster is the frantic, increasingly unhinged drama critic protagonist of the dark comedy film "Arsenic and Old Lace," who discovers his seemingly sweet aunts are serial poisoners.
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D.
William Hathaway
William Hathaway was a Democratic U.S. Senator and Representative from Maine who served in Congress during the 1960s and 1970s.
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E.
Donald Petrie
Donald Petrie is an American film director known for popular comedies such as "Grumpy Old Men," "Miss Congeniality," and "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days."
- 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: Rob Petrie Target entity description: Rob Petrie is the witty, often flustered television comedy writer portrayed by Dick Van Dyke on the classic 1960s sitcom "The Dick Van Dyke Show."
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A.
Teddy Brewster
Teddy Brewster is a comically delusional character in the dark comedy play "Arsenic and Old Lace," who believes he is President Theodore Roosevelt and energetically reenacts his imagined military exploits.
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B.
Carroll Fenton
Carroll Fenton was an American paleontologist and prolific science writer known for his popular books and illustrations on prehistoric life and geology.
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C.
Mortimer Brewster
Mortimer Brewster is the frantic, increasingly unhinged drama critic protagonist of the dark comedy film "Arsenic and Old Lace," who discovers his seemingly sweet aunts are serial poisoners.
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D.
William Hathaway
William Hathaway was a Democratic U.S. Senator and Representative from Maine who served in Congress during the 1960s and 1970s.
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E.
Donald Petrie
Donald Petrie is an American film director known for popular comedies such as "Grumpy Old Men," "Miss Congeniality," and "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Dick Van Dyke Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | situation comedy ⓘ |
| bestFriend | Jerry Helper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| boss |
Alan Brady
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mel Cooley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child | Ritchie Petrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colleague |
Buddy Sorrell
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sally Rogers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Carl Reiner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employerType | television variety show ⓘ |
| era | 1960s American television ⓘ |
| familyName | Petrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | The Dick Van Dyke Show universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | The Dick Van Dyke Show, Season 1 Episode 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Robert Simpson Petrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| hairColor | brown ⓘ |
| householdRole |
father
ⓘ
husband ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Carl Reiner’s experiences as a TV writer ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| nationality | American (fictional) ⓘ |
| neighbor |
Jerry Helper
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Millie Helper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| network | CBS ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
clumsy pratfalls
ⓘ
physical comedy ⓘ |
| notableEpisodeTheme |
misunderstandings and farce
ⓘ
work–family balance ⓘ |
| occupation |
head writer
ⓘ
television comedy writer ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
good-natured
ⓘ
often flustered ⓘ witty ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Dick Van Dyke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | New Rochelle, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Manhattan television writers’ office
ⓘ
suburban New Rochelle home ⓘ |
| spouse | Laura Petrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worksFor | The Alan Brady Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Rob Petrie Description of subject: Rob Petrie is the witty, often flustered television comedy writer portrayed by Dick Van Dyke on the classic 1960s sitcom "The Dick Van Dyke Show."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.