cat Jonesy
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Cat Jonesy is the ginger tomcat aboard the spaceship Nostromo in the Alien film series, known for being Ellen Ripley’s companion and one of the few survivors of the xenomorph attacks.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| cat Jonesy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12927366 — 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: cat Jonesy Context triple: [Ellen Ripley, pet, cat Jonesy]
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A.
Catz
Catz is the informal nickname for St Catharine’s College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge.
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B.
Catz
Catz is the surname of Safra Catz, a prominent business executive best known as the CEO of Oracle Corporation.
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C.
Catz
Catz is a small commune in the Manche department of northwestern France, situated in the historic Normandy region.
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D.
Cat Cay
Cat Cay is a small, privately owned island in the Bimini district of the Bahamas, known for its exclusive residential community and yacht harbor.
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E.
Jacob Cats
Jacob Cats was a prominent 17th-century Dutch poet, jurist, and statesman, best known for his didactic moral verses and influential role in the Dutch Republic.
- 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: cat Jonesy Target entity description: Cat Jonesy is the ginger tomcat aboard the spaceship Nostromo in the Alien film series, known for being Ellen Ripley’s companion and one of the few survivors of the xenomorph attacks.
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A.
Catz
Catz is the informal nickname for St Catharine’s College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge.
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B.
Catz
Catz is a small commune in the Manche department of northwestern France, situated in the historic Normandy region.
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C.
Catz
Catz is the surname of Safra Catz, a prominent business executive best known as the CEO of Oracle Corporation.
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D.
Cat Cay
Cat Cay is a small, privately owned island in the Bimini district of the Bahamas, known for its exclusive residential community and yacht harbor.
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E.
Jacob Cats
Jacob Cats was a prominent 17th-century Dutch poet, jurist, and statesman, best known for his didactic moral verses and influential role in the Dutch Republic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
animal character
ⓘ
fictional cat ⓘ film character ⓘ |
| affiliation |
USCSS Nostromo crew
ⓘ
linked to:
USCSS Nostromo
|
| appearsIn |
Alien
ⓘ
Aliens ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries |
Alien film series
ⓘ
linked to:
Alien franchise
|
| associatedVessel | USCSS Nostromo ⓘ |
| coatColor | ginger ⓘ |
| coatPattern | tabby ⓘ |
| companionOf | Ellen Ripley ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator |
Dan O’Bannon
ⓘ
linked to:
Dan O'Bannon
Ronald Shusett ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Alien franchise ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | film Alien ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1979 ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction horror ⓘ |
| givenName | Jonesy ⓘ |
| hasOwnerInFiction | Ellen Ripley ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being Ellen Ripley’s pet
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surviving xenomorph attack on the Nostromo ⓘ |
| notableScene | rescued by Ripley before Nostromo self-destructs ⓘ |
| occupation | ship's cat ⓘ |
| onScreenStatus |
alive at beginning of Aliens
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alive at end of Alien ⓘ |
| partOf |
Alien (1979 film) cast of characters
ⓘ
Aliens (1986 film) cast of characters ⓘ
linked to:
Aliens (1986 science-fiction film)
|
| portrayedBy | real cats ⓘ |
| role | ship's cat ⓘ |
| servedOn | USCSS Nostromo ⓘ |
| sex | male ⓘ |
| species | cat ⓘ |
| staysBehindWhile | Ellen Ripley travels to LV-426 in Aliens ⓘ |
| survivorOf | xenomorph attack on the Nostromo ⓘ |
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: cat Jonesy Description of subject: Cat Jonesy is the ginger tomcat aboard the spaceship Nostromo in the Alien film series, known for being Ellen Ripley’s companion and one of the few survivors of the xenomorph attacks.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.