Ray Gardner
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Ray Gardner is the supportive, down-to-earth father of protagonist Joe Gardner in Pixar's animated film "Soul."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ray Gardner canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9739420 — 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: Ray Gardner Context triple: [Joe Gardner, hasFather, Ray Gardner]
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A.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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B.
Roy Gardner
Roy Gardner was an American economist and game theorist known for his work on strategic behavior, common-pool resources, and the application of game theory to environmental and resource economics.
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C.
Jimmy Gardner
Jimmy Gardner was an early 20th-century Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and executive who played a key role in organizing professional hockey and shaping the sport’s development in North America.
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D.
Lloyd Hubler
Lloyd Hubler is a cinematographer best known for his work on the animated film "Megamind."
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E.
Robert Gaskins
Robert Gaskins is a software entrepreneur best known as the co-creator of Microsoft PowerPoint and a key figure in the early development of presentation software.
- 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: Ray Gardner Target entity description: Ray Gardner is the supportive, down-to-earth father of protagonist Joe Gardner in Pixar's animated film "Soul."
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A.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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B.
Roy Gardner
Roy Gardner was an American economist and game theorist known for his work on strategic behavior, common-pool resources, and the application of game theory to environmental and resource economics.
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C.
Jimmy Gardner
Jimmy Gardner was an early 20th-century Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and executive who played a key role in organizing professional hockey and shaping the sport’s development in North America.
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D.
Lloyd Hubler
Lloyd Hubler is a cinematographer best known for his work on the animated film "Megamind."
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E.
Robert Gaskins
Robert Gaskins is a software entrepreneur best known as the co-creator of Microsoft PowerPoint and a key figure in the early development of presentation software.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
animated character
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Pixar film Soul
ⓘ
Soul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator |
Kemp Powers
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pete Docter NERFINISHED ⓘ Pixar Animation Studios ⓘ |
| distributor | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African-American ⓘ |
| fatherOf | Joe Gardner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Pixar universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Soul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
animated fantasy film
ⓘ
family film ⓘ |
| hasFamilyRelation | Joe Gardner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Libba Gardner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
family support
ⓘ
parent-child relationship ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | computer-animated film ⓘ |
| occupation |
small business owner
ⓘ
tailor ⓘ |
| owns | tailor shop ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
down-to-earth
ⓘ
supportive ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Pixar Animation Studios ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City
ⓘ
Queens, New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | jazz-influenced New York City environment ⓘ |
| supports | Joe Gardner's music career ⓘ |
| universe | Soul universe ⓘ |
| yearOfFirstAppearance | 2020 ⓘ |
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: Ray Gardner Description of subject: Ray Gardner is the supportive, down-to-earth father of protagonist Joe Gardner in Pixar's animated film "Soul."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.