xkcd
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xkcd is a popular webcomic that blends humor, science, technology, and internet culture, created by cartoonist and former NASA roboticist Randall Munroe.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| xkcd canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11449445 — 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: xkcd Context triple: [Randall Munroe, knownFor, xkcd]
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A.
Randall Munroe
Randall Munroe is an American cartoonist, author, and former NASA roboticist best known as the creator of the webcomic xkcd.
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B.
Dilbert
Dilbert is a satirical comic strip centered on the absurdities of corporate office culture, created by cartoonist Scott Adams.
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C.
South Park
South Park is a historic, oval-shaped public park and surrounding neighborhood in San Francisco’s South of Market area, known for its Victorian homes, tech offices, and community green space.
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D.
South Park
South Park is an animated satirical television series known for its crude humor and sharp social and political commentary, created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
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E.
South Park
South Park is a public park in Oxford, England, known for its expansive green space, city views, and use as a venue for community events and festivals.
- 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: xkcd Target entity description: xkcd is a popular webcomic that blends humor, science, technology, and internet culture, created by cartoonist and former NASA roboticist Randall Munroe.
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A.
Randall Munroe
Randall Munroe is an American cartoonist, author, and former NASA roboticist best known as the creator of the webcomic xkcd.
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B.
Dilbert
Dilbert is a satirical comic strip centered on the absurdities of corporate office culture, created by cartoonist Scott Adams.
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C.
South Park
South Park is a historic, oval-shaped public park and surrounding neighborhood in San Francisco’s South of Market area, known for its Victorian homes, tech offices, and community green space.
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D.
South Park
South Park is a public park in Oxford, England, known for its expansive green space, city views, and use as a venue for community events and festivals.
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E.
South Park
South Park is an animated satirical television series known for its crude humor and sharp social and political commentary, created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comic strip
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webcomic ⓘ |
| author | Randall Munroe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Randall Munroe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
humor
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internet culture ⓘ science ⓘ science fiction ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Thing Explainer (book)
NERFINISHED
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What If? (book) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMerchandise |
books
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posters ⓘ prints ⓘ t-shirts ⓘ |
| hasOnlineCommunity |
Explain xkcd wiki
NERFINISHED
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xkcd forums NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
What If? (blog series)
NERFINISHED
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xkcd store NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSocialMediaPresence |
Mastodon
NERFINISHED
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RSS feed ⓘ Twitter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 2005 ⓘ |
| influenced |
SMBC (Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal)
NERFINISHED
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The Oatmeal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| license | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motto | A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influence on internet culture
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scientifically accurate humor ⓘ use of alt-text for additional jokes ⓘ |
| notableWork |
xkcd #303 "Compiling"
NERFINISHED
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xkcd #353 "Python" NERFINISHED ⓘ xkcd #927 "Standards" NERFINISHED ⓘ xkcd #936 "Password Strength" NERFINISHED ⓘ xkcd #979 "Wisdom of the Ancients" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisher | self-published ⓘ |
| style | stick-figure art ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
computer science
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language ⓘ mathematics ⓘ physics ⓘ programming ⓘ romance ⓘ sarcasm ⓘ |
| updateFrequency | several times per week ⓘ |
| website | https://xkcd.com/ ⓘ |
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: xkcd Description of subject: xkcd is a popular webcomic that blends humor, science, technology, and internet culture, created by cartoonist and former NASA roboticist Randall Munroe.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.