Jellicle cats
E494183
Jellicle cats are the whimsical, magical tribe of felines from T.S. Eliot’s poems and the musical "Cats," known for their distinctive personalities and nocturnal gatherings.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jellicle cats canonical | 5 |
| Jellicle Ball | 2 |
| Jellicle tribe | 1 |
| the Jellicle cat mythos | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5104340 — 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: Jellicle cats Context triple: [The Rum Tum Tugger, alignmentWithTribe, Jellicle cats]
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A.
The Rum Tum Tugger
The Rum Tum Tugger is a flamboyant, attention-seeking cat character from T. S. Eliot’s poetry, later popularized in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical "Cats."
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B.
Cats
Cats is a long-running, award-winning musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on T.S. Eliot’s "Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats," renowned for its distinctive costumes, choreography, and songs like "Memory."
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C.
Mr. Mistoffelees
Mr. Mistoffelees is a magical black-and-white cat character from T. S. Eliot’s poetry, best known today through his prominent role in the musical "Cats."
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D.
Kitty
Kitty is a common diminutive or nickname for the given name Catherine.
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Kitty
"Kitty" is a 1945 historical comedy-drama film set in 18th-century London, best known for starring Paulette Goddard as a pickpocket who rises in society.
- 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: Jellicle cats Target entity description: Jellicle cats are the whimsical, magical tribe of felines from T.S. Eliot’s poems and the musical "Cats," known for their distinctive personalities and nocturnal gatherings.
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A.
The Rum Tum Tugger
The Rum Tum Tugger is a flamboyant, attention-seeking cat character from T. S. Eliot’s poetry, later popularized in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical "Cats."
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B.
Cats
Cats is a long-running, award-winning musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on T.S. Eliot’s "Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats," renowned for its distinctive costumes, choreography, and songs like "Memory."
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C.
Mr. Mistoffelees
Mr. Mistoffelees is a magical black-and-white cat character from T. S. Eliot’s poetry, best known today through his prominent role in the musical "Cats."
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D.
Kitty
Kitty is a common diminutive or nickname for the given name Catherine.
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E.
Kitty
"Kitty" is a 1945 historical comedy-drama film set in 18th-century London, best known for starring Paulette Goddard as a pickpocket who rises in society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional cat species
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fictional group ⓘ |
| adaptedBy | Andrew Lloyd Webber NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| adaptedIn | Cats (musical) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Cats (2019 film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cats (musical) NERFINISHED ⓘ Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Heaviside Layer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | T. S. Eliot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (1939) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gathersAt | Jellicle Ball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gathersTime | night ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
anthropomorphic
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distinctive personalities ⓘ magical ⓘ musical ⓘ nocturnal ⓘ tribal society ⓘ whimsical ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
children’s literature
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fantasy ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Alonzo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bombalurina NERFINISHED ⓘ Bustopher Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ Cassandra NERFINISHED ⓘ Coricopat NERFINISHED ⓘ Demeter NERFINISHED ⓘ Electra NERFINISHED ⓘ Etcetera NERFINISHED ⓘ Exotica NERFINISHED ⓘ Grizabella NERFINISHED ⓘ Gus the Theatre Cat NERFINISHED ⓘ Jellylorum NERFINISHED ⓘ Jennyanydots NERFINISHED ⓘ Macavity NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr. Mistoffelees NERFINISHED ⓘ Munkustrap NERFINISHED ⓘ Old Deuteronomy NERFINISHED ⓘ Plato NERFINISHED ⓘ Pouncival NERFINISHED ⓘ Rum Tum Tugger NERFINISHED ⓘ Skimbleshanks NERFINISHED ⓘ Tantomile NERFINISHED ⓘ Tumblebrutus NERFINISHED ⓘ Victoria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| setting |
junkyard
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urban environment ⓘ |
| theme |
community
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identity ⓘ memory ⓘ rebirth ⓘ |
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: Jellicle cats Description of subject: Jellicle cats are the whimsical, magical tribe of felines from T.S. Eliot’s poems and the musical "Cats," known for their distinctive personalities and nocturnal gatherings.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jellicle Ball
this entity surface form:
Jellicle Ball
this entity surface form:
the Jellicle cat mythos
this entity surface form:
Jellicle tribe