The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls is a 1985 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein that blends adventure, metafiction, and his interconnected "Future History" universe through the story of a writer drawn into a complex space-time conspiracy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Cat Who Walks Through Walls canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5066612 — 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: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls Context triple: [Robert A. Heinlein, notableWork, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls]
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A.
The Cat That Walked by Himself
The Cat That Walked by Himself is a Rudyard Kipling short story from his "Just So Stories" collection that whimsically explains how the once-wild cat came to live with humans while preserving his independence.
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B.
The Good Luck Cat
The Good Luck Cat is a children's picture book by poet Joy Harjo that tells the story of a beloved cat whose many brushes with danger explore themes of luck, love, and Native American family life.
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C.
The Cat's-Paw
The Cat's-Paw is a 1934 American comedy film starring Harold Lloyd as a naive missionary’s son unwittingly drawn into small-town political corruption.
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D.
Cat and Mouse
"Cat and Mouse" is a novella by Nobel Prize–winning German author Günter Grass that forms part of his Danzig Trilogy and explores adolescence, guilt, and the legacy of World War II in Nazi-era Germany.
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E.
The Naming of Cats
"The Naming of Cats" is a whimsical poem by T. S. Eliot that humorously explores the secret, multifaceted names that cats possess beyond the ones humans give them.
- 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: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls Target entity description: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls is a 1985 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein that blends adventure, metafiction, and his interconnected "Future History" universe through the story of a writer drawn into a complex space-time conspiracy.
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A.
The Cat That Walked by Himself
The Cat That Walked by Himself is a Rudyard Kipling short story from his "Just So Stories" collection that whimsically explains how the once-wild cat came to live with humans while preserving his independence.
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B.
The Good Luck Cat
The Good Luck Cat is a children's picture book by poet Joy Harjo that tells the story of a beloved cat whose many brushes with danger explore themes of luck, love, and Native American family life.
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C.
The Cat's-Paw
The Cat's-Paw is a 1934 American comedy film starring Harold Lloyd as a naive missionary’s son unwittingly drawn into small-town political corruption.
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D.
Cat and Mouse
"Cat and Mouse" is a novella by Nobel Prize–winning German author Günter Grass that forms part of his Danzig Trilogy and explores adolescence, guilt, and the legacy of World War II in Nazi-era Germany.
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E.
The Naming of Cats
"The Naming of Cats" is a whimsical poem by T. S. Eliot that humorously explores the secret, multifaceted names that cats possess beyond the ones humans give them.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Robert A. Heinlein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToLiteraryMovement | Golden Age-influenced American science fiction ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
interconnected fictional universes
ⓘ
metafictional self-reference ⓘ multiverse ⓘ time travel ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| features |
assassination plot
ⓘ
interdimensional travel ⓘ space-time conspiracy ⓘ |
| firstEditionFormat | hardcover ⓘ |
| follows | The Number of the Beast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure fiction
ⓘ
metafiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Hazel Stone
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jubal Harshaw NERFINISHED ⓘ Lazarus Long NERFINISHED ⓘ Pixel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCoverArtist | Michael Whelan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 0-399-13039-2 ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter |
Colonel Colin Campbell
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gwen Novak NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Ames NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
breaking the fourth wall
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free will versus determinism ⓘ identity and role-playing ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | approximately 400 ⓘ |
| hasWorkingTitle | The Cat Who Walked Through Walls NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includedIn | Heinlein late-period novels ⓘ |
| isFollowedBy | To Sail Beyond the Sunset NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableElement |
appearance of characters from other Heinlein works
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blending of author and character identities ⓘ |
| partOf | Heinlein Future History NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| publisher | G. P. Putnam's Sons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
multiple universes
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space stations ⓘ the Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| titleRefersTo | a cat named Pixel ⓘ |
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Subject: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls Description of subject: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls is a 1985 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein that blends adventure, metafiction, and his interconnected "Future History" universe through the story of a writer drawn into a complex space-time conspiracy.
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