The Cheese Monkeys
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The Cheese Monkeys is a 2001 coming-of-age novel by graphic designer Chip Kidd that follows a freshman art student’s experiences in a 1950s university art department.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Cheese Monkeys canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6920146 — 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: The Cheese Monkeys Context triple: [Chip Kidd, notableWork, The Cheese Monkeys]
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A.
Screeching Weasel
Screeching Weasel is an American punk rock band known for its influential role in the pop-punk scene since the late 1980s.
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B.
Animal Liberation Orchestra
Animal Liberation Orchestra is an American rock band known for its laid-back, jam-influenced sound and frequent collaborations and touring associations with Jack Johnson.
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C.
The Smeezingtons
The Smeezingtons were a songwriting and production team, best known for crafting pop and R&B hits with Bruno Mars and other major artists in the late 2000s and early 2010s.
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D.
The Roaches
The Roaches is a prominent gritstone escarpment and popular hiking and climbing area in Staffordshire, England, known for its dramatic rock formations and far-reaching views.
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E.
The Frustrators
The Frustrators are an American punk rock side project featuring Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt, known for their irreverent, humorous style and releases on Lookout! Records.
- 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 Cheese Monkeys Target entity description: The Cheese Monkeys is a 2001 coming-of-age novel by graphic designer Chip Kidd that follows a freshman art student’s experiences in a 1950s university art department.
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A.
Screeching Weasel
Screeching Weasel is an American punk rock band known for its influential role in the pop-punk scene since the late 1980s.
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B.
Animal Liberation Orchestra
Animal Liberation Orchestra is an American rock band known for its laid-back, jam-influenced sound and frequent collaborations and touring associations with Jack Johnson.
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C.
The Smeezingtons
The Smeezingtons were a songwriting and production team, best known for crafting pop and R&B hits with Bruno Mars and other major artists in the late 2000s and early 2010s.
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D.
The Roaches
The Roaches is a prominent gritstone escarpment and popular hiking and climbing area in Staffordshire, England, known for its dramatic rock formations and far-reaching views.
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E.
The Frustrators
The Frustrators are an American punk rock side project featuring Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt, known for their irreverent, humorous style and releases on Lookout! Records.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Chip Kidd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| coverDesigner | Chip Kidd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| debutWorkOf | Chip Kidd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| exploresTheme |
artistic integrity
ⓘ
creativity ⓘ identity ⓘ mentor–student relationships ⓘ |
| genre |
campus novel
ⓘ
coming-of-age fiction ⓘ |
| hasSequel | The Learners NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | contemporary American literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Happy ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableCharacter | Professor Winter Sorbeck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalTitle | The Cheese Monkeys NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pageCount | 272 ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2001 ⓘ |
| publisher | Scribner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPlace | a state university in the United States ⓘ |
| settingTime | 1950s ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
art education
ⓘ
college life ⓘ coming of age ⓘ graphic design ⓘ |
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: The Cheese Monkeys Description of subject: The Cheese Monkeys is a 2001 coming-of-age novel by graphic designer Chip Kidd that follows a freshman art student’s experiences in a 1950s university art department.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.