catchphrase "How you doin'?"
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The catchphrase "How you doin'?" is a signature, humorously delivered greeting popularized by television host Wendy Williams.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| catchphrase "How you doin'?" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3125271 — 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: catchphrase "How you doin'?" Context triple: [Wendy Williams, knownFor, catchphrase "How you doin'?"]
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A.
catchphrase "Welcome to my crib"
The catchphrase "Welcome to my crib" is the iconic greeting popularized by the MTV reality show *MTV Cribs*, used by featured celebrities as they introduced viewers to their homes.
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B.
Do You...
"Do You..." is a smooth, soulful R&B track by Miguel that blends sensual lyrics with atmospheric production and showcases his distinctive vocal style.
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C.
Do You
"Do You" is a 1985 pop album by Scottish singer Sheena Easton that features a more dance-oriented, contemporary sound crafted with prominent 1980s production.
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D.
Hey Reb!
Hey Reb! is the mustachioed frontiersman mascot of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, representing the school's Runnin' Rebels athletic teams.
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E.
Too Short
Too Short is an American rapper and pioneer of West Coast hip hop, known for his explicit lyrics and influential role in the Oakland rap scene since the 1980s.
- 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: catchphrase "How you doin'?" Target entity description: The catchphrase "How you doin'?" is a signature, humorously delivered greeting popularized by television host Wendy Williams.
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A.
catchphrase "Welcome to my crib"
The catchphrase "Welcome to my crib" is the iconic greeting popularized by the MTV reality show *MTV Cribs*, used by featured celebrities as they introduced viewers to their homes.
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B.
Do You...
"Do You..." is a smooth, soulful R&B track by Miguel that blends sensual lyrics with atmospheric production and showcases his distinctive vocal style.
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C.
Do You
"Do You" is a 1985 pop album by Scottish singer Sheena Easton that features a more dance-oriented, contemporary sound crafted with prominent 1980s production.
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D.
Hey Reb!
Hey Reb! is the mustachioed frontiersman mascot of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, representing the school's Runnin' Rebels athletic teams.
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E.
Too Short
Too Short is an American rapper and pioneer of West Coast hip hop, known for his explicit lyrics and influential role in the Oakland rap scene since the 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
catchphrase
ⓘ
greeting ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
The Wendy Williams Show
ⓘ
Wendy Williams ⓘ |
| culturalRole | pop culture catchphrase ⓘ |
| grammaticalForm | interrogative sentence ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediumOfPopularization | television ⓘ |
| partOf | Wendy Williams public persona ⓘ |
| popularizedBy | Wendy Williams ⓘ |
| register | informal ⓘ |
| semanticMeaning | How are you doing? ⓘ |
| spellingVariant | "How you doing?" ⓘ |
| text | How you doin'? ⓘ |
| tone |
campy
ⓘ
humorous ⓘ playful ⓘ |
| typicalDelivery |
elongated pronunciation
ⓘ
exaggerated intonation ⓘ |
| usedAs |
humorous greeting
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signature phrase ⓘ |
| usedFor |
audience engagement
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comic effect ⓘ informal greeting ⓘ |
| wordCount | 3 ⓘ |
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: catchphrase "How you doin'?" Description of subject: The catchphrase "How you doin'?" is a signature, humorously delivered greeting popularized by television host Wendy Williams.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.