Me at the zoo
E13757
"Me at the zoo" is the first video ever uploaded to YouTube, featuring co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo and marking the platform's historic launch.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Me at the zoo canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T122676 — 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: Me at the zoo Context triple: [YouTube, firstVideoTitle, Me at the zoo]
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A.
John Ball Zoo
John Ball Zoo is a popular mid-sized zoological park and educational attraction located in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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B.
Pueblo Zoo
Pueblo Zoo is a mid-sized, accredited zoological park in Pueblo, Colorado, featuring diverse animal exhibits and conservation-focused educational programs for visitors.
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C.
Saint Louis Zoo
The Saint Louis Zoo is a major free-admission zoological park renowned for its extensive animal collection, conservation research, and family-friendly exhibits.
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D.
Knoxville Zoo
Knoxville Zoo is a regional zoological park in Knoxville, Tennessee, known for its diverse animal exhibits, conservation efforts, and family-oriented attractions.
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E.
Oregon Zoo
The Oregon Zoo is a major zoological park in Portland, Oregon, known for its extensive animal exhibits, conservation programs, and family-friendly attractions.
- 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: Me at the zoo Target entity description: "Me at the zoo" is the first video ever uploaded to YouTube, featuring co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo and marking the platform's historic launch.
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A.
John Ball Zoo
John Ball Zoo is a popular mid-sized zoological park and educational attraction located in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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B.
Pueblo Zoo
Pueblo Zoo is a mid-sized, accredited zoological park in Pueblo, Colorado, featuring diverse animal exhibits and conservation-focused educational programs for visitors.
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C.
Saint Louis Zoo
The Saint Louis Zoo is a major free-admission zoological park renowned for its extensive animal collection, conservation research, and family-friendly exhibits.
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D.
Knoxville Zoo
Knoxville Zoo is a regional zoological park in Knoxville, Tennessee, known for its diverse animal exhibits, conservation efforts, and family-oriented attractions.
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E.
Oregon Zoo
The Oregon Zoo is a major zoological park in Portland, Oregon, known for its extensive animal exhibits, conservation programs, and family-friendly attractions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
YouTube video
ⓘ
internet meme ⓘ online video ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
YouTube co-founders
ⓘ
YouTube founding ⓘ |
| cameraOrientation | landscape ⓘ |
| copyrightStatus | standard YouTube license ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| creator | Jawed Karim ⓘ |
| describedAnimal | elephant ⓘ |
| duration | 00:00:18 ⓘ |
| featuresPerson | Jawed Karim ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | San Diego Zoo ⓘ |
| genre |
short video
ⓘ
vlog ⓘ |
| hasAspectRatio | 4:3 ⓘ |
| hasAudio | spoken commentary ⓘ |
| hasCategory | People & Blogs ⓘ |
| hasColor | color video ⓘ |
| hasOpeningLine | All right, so here we are in front of the elephants. ⓘ |
| hasOriginalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasShortDescription | First video uploaded to YouTube, showing Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. ⓘ |
| hasSubject | Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo ⓘ |
| hasURL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | first video on YouTube ⓘ |
| inception | 2005-04-23 ⓘ |
| isPartOf | history of online video ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| location | San Diego Zoo ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first video ever uploaded to YouTube ⓘ |
| originalChannelCreationDate | 2005-04-23 ⓘ |
| platform | YouTube ⓘ |
| productionMethod | amateur video ⓘ |
| publicationMedium |
YouTube
ⓘ
surface form:
YouTube website
|
| recordingDeviceType | consumer camcorder ⓘ |
| significance | marks the launch of the YouTube platform ⓘ |
| title | Me at the zoo self-link ⓘ |
| topic |
YouTube history
ⓘ
zoo animals ⓘ |
| uploadDate | 2005-04-23 ⓘ |
| uploader | jawed ⓘ |
| uploadYear | 2005 ⓘ |
| videoQuality | 240p ⓘ |
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: Me at the zoo Description of subject: "Me at the zoo" is the first video ever uploaded to YouTube, featuring co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo and marking the platform's historic launch.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jawed Karim
subject surface form:
Jawed Karim