Your Friend the Rat
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Your Friend the Rat is a Pixar animated short film featuring characters from Ratatouille that playfully explores the history and science of rats.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Your Friend the Rat canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9788212 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Your Friend the Rat Context triple: [Jim Capobianco, knownFor, Your Friend the Rat]
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A.
The Rat
The Rat is a 1925 British silent crime drama film, based on a popular stage play, that helped cement Ivor Novello’s status as a major screen star.
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B.
The Rat
"The Rat" is a darkly satirical novel by Günter Grass that blends dystopian fantasy and political allegory to explore themes of human self-destruction and environmental catastrophe.
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C.
The Tale of Two Bad Mice
The Tale of Two Bad Mice is a classic children's picture book by Beatrix Potter about two mischievous mice who wreak havoc in a doll's house, blending gentle humor with moral lessons.
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D.
Rattenkönig
Rattenkönig is a sculptural installation by German artist Katharina Fritsch featuring a haunting circular arrangement of oversized black rats that evokes themes of myth, fear, and collective menace.
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E.
King of the Mice
King of the Mice is a fictional monarch of a mouse kingdom, best known as the antagonist ruler of the mice in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s tale "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" and its adaptations.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Your Friend the Rat Target entity description: Your Friend the Rat is a Pixar animated short film featuring characters from Ratatouille that playfully explores the history and science of rats.
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A.
The Rat
The Rat is a 1925 British silent crime drama film, based on a popular stage play, that helped cement Ivor Novello’s status as a major screen star.
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B.
The Rat
"The Rat" is a darkly satirical novel by Günter Grass that blends dystopian fantasy and political allegory to explore themes of human self-destruction and environmental catastrophe.
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C.
The Tale of Two Bad Mice
The Tale of Two Bad Mice is a classic children's picture book by Beatrix Potter about two mischievous mice who wreak havoc in a doll's house, blending gentle humor with moral lessons.
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D.
Rattenkönig
Rattenkönig is a sculptural installation by German artist Katharina Fritsch featuring a haunting circular arrangement of oversized black rats that evokes themes of myth, fear, and collective menace.
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E.
King of the Mice
King of the Mice is a fictional monarch of a mouse kingdom, best known as the antagonist ruler of the mice in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s tale "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" and its adaptations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Pixar short film
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animated short film ⓘ spin-off film ⓘ |
| animationStudio | Pixar Animation Studios ⓘ |
| basedOn | Ratatouille ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| director | Jim Capobianco ⓘ |
| distributor | Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Django
ⓘ
Emile ⓘ Remy ⓘ |
| featuresFranchise |
Ratatouille franchise
ⓘ
linked to:
Ratatouille
|
| featuresSong | Plan B ⓘ |
| genre |
animated documentary-style short
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comedy ⓘ educational film ⓘ |
| hasAnimationTechnique | mixed media ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
coexistence between humans and animals
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human–rat relationship ⓘ misconceptions about rats ⓘ |
| includedOn |
Ratatouille Blu-ray
ⓘ
Ratatouille DVD ⓘ |
| musicBy | Alex Mandel ⓘ |
| narratorCharacter |
Emile
ⓘ
Remy ⓘ |
| notableFor |
combining multiple animation styles in one short
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playful exploration of rat history and science ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
Pixar short films
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linked to:
Pixar theatrical short films
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| producer | Galyn Susman ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Pixar Animation Studios ⓘ |
| releaseFormat | home video ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 11 ⓘ |
| setting | educational presentation ⓘ |
| subject |
history of rats
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rats ⓘ science of rats ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
children
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family ⓘ |
| title | Your Friend the Rat ⓘ |
| usesAnimationStyle |
3D computer animation
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stop-motion animation ⓘ traditional 2D animation ⓘ |
| voiceActor |
Patton Oswalt
ⓘ
Peter Sohn ⓘ |
| writer |
Alexander Woo
ⓘ
Jeff Pidgeon ⓘ Jim Capobianco ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Your Friend the Rat Description of subject: Your Friend the Rat is a Pixar animated short film featuring characters from Ratatouille that playfully explores the history and science of rats.
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