Growltiger's Last Stand
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"Growltiger's Last Stand" is a comic narrative poem by T. S. Eliot about a fearsome but ultimately doomed pirate cat, best known today as one of the stories adapted into the musical *Cats*.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| "Growltiger's Last Stand" | 1 |
| Growltiger's Last Stand canonical | 1 |
| Growltiger's Last Stand (Cats musical number) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T971270 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Growltiger's Last Stand Context triple: [Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, containsPoem, Growltiger's Last Stand]
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A.
Tiger of Malaya
Tiger of Malaya is the famous wartime nickname of Japanese general Tomoyuki Yamashita, noted for his rapid conquest of British Malaya and Singapore during World War II.
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B.
Guerra del Asiento
Guerra del Asiento es el nombre en español de la Guerra del Asiento o Guerra de la Oreja de Jenkins, un conflicto del siglo XVIII entre Gran Bretaña y España principalmente por disputas comerciales y coloniales en el Caribe y América.
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C.
King of Kandy
The King of Kandy was the monarch of the last independent Sinhalese kingdom in Sri Lanka, ruling from the hill capital of Kandy until its annexation by the British in the early 19th century.
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D.
The Chief
The Chief is the nickname of Robert Parish, a Hall of Fame NBA center best known for his long, successful tenure with the Boston Celtics and his record for most games played in league history.
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E.
Los Leones
Los Leones is the popular nickname of the Cuban baseball team Industriales, one of the most successful and beloved clubs in the Cuban National Series.
- 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: Growltiger's Last Stand Target entity description: "Growltiger's Last Stand" is a comic narrative poem by T. S. Eliot about a fearsome but ultimately doomed pirate cat, best known today as one of the stories adapted into the musical *Cats*.
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A.
Tiger of Malaya
Tiger of Malaya is the famous wartime nickname of Japanese general Tomoyuki Yamashita, noted for his rapid conquest of British Malaya and Singapore during World War II.
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B.
Guerra del Asiento
Guerra del Asiento es el nombre en español de la Guerra del Asiento o Guerra de la Oreja de Jenkins, un conflicto del siglo XVIII entre Gran Bretaña y España principalmente por disputas comerciales y coloniales en el Caribe y América.
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C.
King of Kandy
The King of Kandy was the monarch of the last independent Sinhalese kingdom in Sri Lanka, ruling from the hill capital of Kandy until its annexation by the British in the early 19th century.
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D.
The Chief
The Chief is the nickname of Robert Parish, a Hall of Fame NBA center best known for his long, successful tenure with the Boston Celtics and his record for most games played in league history.
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E.
Los Leones
Los Leones is the popular nickname of the Cuban baseball team Industriales, one of the most successful and beloved clubs in the Cuban National Series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comic poem
ⓘ
narrative poem ⓘ poem ⓘ |
| adaptationBasedOn | Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats ⓘ |
| adaptationMedium | stage musical ⓘ |
| adaptationTitle |
Growltiger's Last Stand
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Growltiger's Last Stand (Cats musical number)
|
| adaptedAs | musical number in Cats ⓘ |
| adaptedBy | Andrew Lloyd Webber ⓘ |
| author | T. S. Eliot ⓘ |
| characterRole | pirate ⓘ |
| characterType | cat ⓘ |
| collectionAuthor | T. S. Eliot ⓘ |
| containsElement |
action
ⓘ
anthropomorphic animals ⓘ humor ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
comic poetry
ⓘ
narrative poetry ⓘ |
| hasAntagonistGroup | Siamese cats ⓘ |
| hasCulturalDepictionOf |
cats in literature
ⓘ
pirates in popular culture ⓘ |
| hasIllustratedEditions | yes ⓘ |
| hasSpeciesOfMainCharacter | domestic cat ⓘ |
| includedIn | children's poetry anthologies ⓘ |
| influenced |
Cats (musical)
ⓘ
surface form:
Cats (1981 musical)
|
| intendedAudience | children ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | poem ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | modernist literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Growltiger ⓘ |
| meter | rhymed verse ⓘ |
| narrativeOutcome | death of Growltiger ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| notableFor | portrayal of a fearsome pirate cat ⓘ |
| partOf | Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1939 ⓘ |
| publisher | Faber and Faber ⓘ |
| setting |
Thames
ⓘ
surface form:
Thames River
barge ⓘ |
| theme |
downfall
ⓘ
piracy ⓘ revenge ⓘ |
| tone | comic ⓘ |
| workInSeries |
Cats
ⓘ
surface form:
Practical Cats poems
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Subject: Growltiger's Last Stand Description of subject: "Growltiger's Last Stand" is a comic narrative poem by T. S. Eliot about a fearsome but ultimately doomed pirate cat, best known today as one of the stories adapted into the musical *Cats*.
Referenced by (3)
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this entity surface form:
Growltiger's Last Stand (Cats musical number)
this entity surface form:
"Growltiger's Last Stand"