Yosemite Sam
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Yosemite Sam is a hot-tempered, mustachioed outlaw and recurring antagonist in the Looney Tunes cartoons, known for his fiery personality and frequent clashes with Bugs Bunny.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yosemite Sam canonical | 24 |
| Yosemite Sam cartoons | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T438802 — 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: Yosemite Sam Context triple: [Mel Blanc, notableCharacterVoiced, Yosemite Sam]
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A.
Laffing Sal
Laffing Sal is a historic, animatronic laughing woman figure from early 20th-century amusement parks, now preserved as a popular attraction at San Francisco’s Musée Mécanique.
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B.
Bugs Bunny
Bugs Bunny is an iconic, wisecracking cartoon rabbit from the Looney Tunes series, famous for his catchphrase "What's up, Doc?" and his clever, mischievous antics.
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C.
Porky Pig
Porky Pig is a classic Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon character known for his stuttered speech and signature line, "Th-th-th-that's all folks!"
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D.
Daffy Duck
Daffy Duck is a classic Looney Tunes cartoon character known for his zany, self-centered antics and comedic rivalry with characters like Bugs Bunny.
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E.
Willie
Willie is the first name of Willie Nelson, the iconic American country music singer-songwriter and cultural figure.
- 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: Yosemite Sam Target entity description: Yosemite Sam is a hot-tempered, mustachioed outlaw and recurring antagonist in the Looney Tunes cartoons, known for his fiery personality and frequent clashes with Bugs Bunny.
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A.
Laffing Sal
Laffing Sal is a historic, animatronic laughing woman figure from early 20th-century amusement parks, now preserved as a popular attraction at San Francisco’s Musée Mécanique.
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B.
Bugs Bunny
Bugs Bunny is an iconic, wisecracking cartoon rabbit from the Looney Tunes series, famous for his catchphrase "What's up, Doc?" and his clever, mischievous antics.
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C.
Porky Pig
Porky Pig is a classic Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon character known for his stuttered speech and signature line, "Th-th-th-that's all folks!"
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D.
Daffy Duck
Daffy Duck is a classic Looney Tunes cartoon character known for his zany, self-centered antics and comedic rivalry with characters like Bugs Bunny.
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E.
Willie
Willie is the first name of Willie Nelson, the iconic American country music singer-songwriter and cultural figure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Looney Tunes character
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animated outlaw ⓘ cartoon character ⓘ fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Looney Tunes
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Looney Tunes Cartoons ⓘ Merrie Melodies ⓘ New Looney Tunes ⓘ Space Jam ⓘ Space Jam: A New Legacy ⓘ The Looney Tunes Show ⓘ |
| basedInPartOn | stereotypical Western outlaw ⓘ |
| creator | Friz Freleng ⓘ |
| enemyOf | Bugs Bunny ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Hare Trigger ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1945 ⓘ |
| franchise | Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasCatchphrase |
Oooooooh, I hate that rabbit!
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Say your prayers! ⓘ |
| hasPersonalityTrait |
aggressive
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hot-tempered ⓘ proud ⓘ short-tempered ⓘ stubborn ⓘ |
| hasPhysicalCharacteristic |
cowboy hat
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guns and holsters ⓘ large red mustache ⓘ short stature ⓘ |
| hasWeapon | revolvers ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Warner Bros. cartoon universe
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linked to:
Warner Bros. animated universe
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| nationality | American (fictional) ⓘ |
| occupation |
Roman legionnaire
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cowboy ⓘ gunslinger ⓘ knight ⓘ outlaw ⓘ pirate ⓘ prospector ⓘ sheriff ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| role | antagonist ⓘ |
| setting |
American Old West
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linked to:
Old West
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| species | human ⓘ |
| typicalGag |
guns misfire or backfire on him
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outsmarted by Bugs Bunny ⓘ |
| voicedBy |
Billy West
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Eric Bauza ⓘ Jeff Bergman ⓘ Joe Alaskey ⓘ Maurice LaMarche ⓘ Mel Blanc ⓘ |
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: Yosemite Sam Description of subject: Yosemite Sam is a hot-tempered, mustachioed outlaw and recurring antagonist in the Looney Tunes cartoons, known for his fiery personality and frequent clashes with Bugs Bunny.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.