Percy (cat)
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Percy is the white cat featured in David Hockney’s famous double-portrait painting "Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Percy (cat) canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8043819 — 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: Percy (cat) Context triple: [Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy, depicts, Percy (cat)]
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A.
Penelope Pussycat
Penelope Pussycat is a recurring Looney Tunes character, a black-and-white cat best known as the reluctant love interest constantly pursued by the amorous skunk Pepé Le Pew.
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B.
Mr. Whiskers
Mr. Whiskers is the talking, psychopathic cat companion voiced by Ryan Reynolds in the dark comedy film "The Voices."
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C.
Kitty
Kitty is a common diminutive or nickname for the given name Catherine.
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D.
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.
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E.
Petey
Petey is a diminutive nickname commonly used for people named Peter.
- 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: Percy (cat) Target entity description: Percy is the white cat featured in David Hockney’s famous double-portrait painting "Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy."
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A.
Penelope Pussycat
Penelope Pussycat is a recurring Looney Tunes character, a black-and-white cat best known as the reluctant love interest constantly pursued by the amorous skunk Pepé Le Pew.
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B.
Mr. Whiskers
Mr. Whiskers is the talking, psychopathic cat companion voiced by Ryan Reynolds in the dark comedy film "The Voices."
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C.
Kitty
Kitty is a common diminutive or nickname for the given name Catherine.
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D.
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.
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E.
Petey
Petey is a diminutive nickname commonly used for people named Peter.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cat
ⓘ
fictional animal ⓘ |
| artisticMovementContext |
British contemporary art
ⓘ
Pop art-related figurative painting ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
David Hockney
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| color | white ⓘ |
| countryOfCulturalContext | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depictedBy | David Hockney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depictedIn | Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| depictionType | domestic cat in interior scene ⓘ |
| featuredIn | Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | depicted animal in a work of art ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkDepictedIn | double portrait ⓘ |
| hasCoSubjectsInWork |
Celia Birtwell
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ossie Clark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasName | Percy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableAppearance | Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy (1970–1971 painting) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediumOfDepiction | acrylic on canvas ⓘ |
| notableFor | appearance in David Hockney’s double-portrait painting Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy ⓘ |
| partOf | composition of Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedAs | white cat sitting on a table ⓘ |
| roleInWork | subject of painting ⓘ |
| species | Felis catus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workCreatorOfDepiction | David Hockney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Percy (cat) Description of subject: Percy is the white cat featured in David Hockney’s famous double-portrait painting "Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.