Lobster Telephone
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Lobster Telephone is a surrealist sculpture by Salvador Dalí that combines a lobster and a telephone to create an absurd, dreamlike everyday object.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lobster Telephone canonical | 7 |
| Aphrodisiac Telephone | 1 |
| Téléphone Homard | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T333799 — 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: Lobster Telephone Context triple: [Salvador Dalí, notableWork, Lobster Telephone]
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A.
The What D'Ye Call It
The What D'Ye Call It is a satirical one-act play by English poet and dramatist John Gay, known for parodying the conventions of contemporary tragedy and theatre.
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B.
The Egg
The Egg is a modern, student-centered dining and learning facility at the Culinary Institute of America’s Hyde Park campus that showcases culinary education in a real-world restaurant environment.
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C.
The Pond
The Pond is a picturesque man-made lake in the southeast corner of New York City's Central Park, known for its tranquil scenery, wildlife, and views of the surrounding skyline.
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D.
The Ants
The Ants is a Pulitzer Prize–winning scientific book that provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of ant biology, behavior, and social organization.
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E.
Cornershop
Cornershop is an on-demand grocery delivery service, originally founded in Latin America, that connects users with local supermarkets and retailers through a mobile app and web platform.
- 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: Lobster Telephone Target entity description: Lobster Telephone is a surrealist sculpture by Salvador Dalí that combines a lobster and a telephone to create an absurd, dreamlike everyday object.
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A.
The What D'Ye Call It
The What D'Ye Call It is a satirical one-act play by English poet and dramatist John Gay, known for parodying the conventions of contemporary tragedy and theatre.
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B.
The Egg
The Egg is a modern, student-centered dining and learning facility at the Culinary Institute of America’s Hyde Park campus that showcases culinary education in a real-world restaurant environment.
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C.
The Pond
The Pond is a picturesque man-made lake in the southeast corner of New York City's Central Park, known for its tranquil scenery, wildlife, and views of the surrounding skyline.
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D.
The Ants
The Ants is a Pulitzer Prize–winning scientific book that provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of ant biology, behavior, and social organization.
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E.
Cornershop
Cornershop is an on-demand grocery delivery service, originally founded in Latin America, that connects users with local supermarkets and retailers through a mobile app and web platform.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Lobster Telephone Description of subject: Lobster Telephone is a surrealist sculpture by Salvador Dalí that combines a lobster and a telephone to create an absurd, dreamlike everyday object.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Aphrodisiac Telephone
this entity surface form:
Téléphone Homard
subject surface form:
Salvador Dalí