The Railway Cat
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The Railway Cat is the nickname of Skimbleshanks, a diligent and orderly railway-working cat from T. S. Eliot’s "Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats" and the musical "Cats."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Railway Cat canonical | 1 |
| poem "Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5182899 — 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.
Target entity: The Railway Cat Context triple: [Skimbleshanks, describedAs, The Railway Cat]
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A.
The Cat About Town
The Cat About Town is a distinguished, portly, and impeccably dressed feline character from T.S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats,” known for frequenting gentlemen’s clubs and living a life of refined leisure.
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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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: The Railway Cat Target entity description: The Railway Cat is the nickname of Skimbleshanks, a diligent and orderly railway-working cat from T. S. Eliot’s "Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats" and the musical "Cats."
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A.
The Cat About Town
The Cat About Town is a distinguished, portly, and impeccably dressed feline character from T.S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats,” known for frequenting gentlemen’s clubs and living a life of refined leisure.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional cat
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ musical theatre character ⓘ stage musical character ⓘ |
| adaptedIn |
2019 film adaptation of Cats
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stage musical Cats NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Cats
NERFINISHED
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Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre |
children’s poetry
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musical theatre ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkBy | Andrew Lloyd Webber NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
night mail train
NERFINISHED
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railway trains ⓘ |
| belongsToGroup | Jellicle cats NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | T. S. Eliot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1939 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAlias | Skimbleshanks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSong | Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspiredByWork | Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryOriginCountry | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium |
film
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poetry ⓘ stage musical ⓘ |
| musicalNumberType | ensemble feature ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| nickname | The Railway Cat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
railway cat
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railway worker ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cats musical character list
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Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats character list ⓘ |
| roleInStory |
ensures order on the train
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keeps the railway running smoothly ⓘ |
| setting | railway ⓘ |
| species | cat ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
children
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family audiences ⓘ |
| theme |
order and discipline
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railway life ⓘ |
| trait |
diligent
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orderly ⓘ responsible ⓘ |
| workAuthor | T. S. Eliot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: The Railway Cat Description of subject: The Railway Cat is the nickname of Skimbleshanks, a diligent and orderly railway-working cat from T. S. Eliot’s "Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats" and the musical "Cats."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.