The Monk and His Cat
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"The Monk and His Cat" is a lyrical song for voice and piano by Samuel Barber, based on a medieval Irish poem depicting the affectionate companionship between a monk and his cat.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Monk and His Cat canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13607912 — 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 Monk and His Cat Context triple: [Hermit Songs, Op. 29, hasPart, The Monk and His Cat]
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A.
The Monk
The Monk is a seminal 1796 Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, renowned for its dark themes of corruption, lust, and the supernatural within a Spanish monastic setting.
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B.
The Monk
The Monk is a mysterious, ageless Tibetan warrior-monk who protects a powerful ancient scroll in the action film "Bulletproof Monk."
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C.
The Monk
The Monk is a 2011 French-Spanish drama film adapted from Matthew Gregory Lewis’s Gothic novel, following a devout Capuchin friar’s descent into temptation and corruption in 17th-century Spain.
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D.
Tale of the Cat
Tale of the Cat is a Grade I-winning Thoroughbred racehorse and successful sire known for producing numerous stakes winners in North America.
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E.
The Mousehole Cat
The Mousehole Cat is a beloved children's picture book by Antonia Barber, illustrated by Nicola Bayley, that retells the Cornish legend of a fisherman and his cat who save their village from famine.
- 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 Monk and His Cat Target entity description: "The Monk and His Cat" is a lyrical song for voice and piano by Samuel Barber, based on a medieval Irish poem depicting the affectionate companionship between a monk and his cat.
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A.
The Monk
The Monk is a seminal 1796 Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, renowned for its dark themes of corruption, lust, and the supernatural within a Spanish monastic setting.
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B.
The Monk
The Monk is a mysterious, ageless Tibetan warrior-monk who protects a powerful ancient scroll in the action film "Bulletproof Monk."
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C.
The Monk
The Monk is a 2011 French-Spanish drama film adapted from Matthew Gregory Lewis’s Gothic novel, following a devout Capuchin friar’s descent into temptation and corruption in 17th-century Spain.
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D.
Tale of the Cat
Tale of the Cat is a Grade I-winning Thoroughbred racehorse and successful sire known for producing numerous stakes winners in North America.
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E.
The Mousehole Cat
The Mousehole Cat is a beloved children's picture book by Antonia Barber, illustrated by Nicola Bayley, that retells the Cornish legend of a fisherman and his cat who save their village from famine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.