Virgil is a howler monkey
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Virgil is a howler monkey is a fictional animal character from Yann Martel’s novel *Beatrice and Virgil*, used to explore themes of suffering, memory, and the Holocaust through allegory.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Virgil is a howler monkey canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19224829 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Virgil is a howler monkey Context triple: [Beatrice and Virgil, characterType, Virgil is a howler monkey]
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A.
Love Monkey
Love Monkey is a short-lived 2006 American television dramedy series about a music executive navigating his personal and professional life in New York City.
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B.
Gorilla
Gorilla is a large, predominantly herbivorous great ape native to the forests of central Sub-Saharan Africa and known for its strength, complex social groups, and close genetic relationship to humans.
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C.
Gorilla
"Gorilla" is a song by Bruno Mars from his album *Unorthodox Jukebox*, known for its sultry lyrics and rock-influenced pop sound.
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D.
Professor Monkey-For-A-Head
Professor Monkey-For-A-Head is a recurring mad-scientist villain from the Earthworm Jim video game and animated series, known for literally having a monkey grafted onto his head.
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E.
Ampersand (Yorick’s monkey)
Ampersand is the capuchin monkey companion of Yorick Brown in the comic series "Y: The Last Man," central to the mystery of why he and Yorick survived a global male-extinction plague.
- 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: Virgil is a howler monkey Target entity description: Virgil is a howler monkey is a fictional animal character from Yann Martel’s novel *Beatrice and Virgil*, used to explore themes of suffering, memory, and the Holocaust through allegory.
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A.
Love Monkey
Love Monkey is a short-lived 2006 American television dramedy series about a music executive navigating his personal and professional life in New York City.
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B.
Gorilla
Gorilla is a large, predominantly herbivorous great ape native to the forests of central Sub-Saharan Africa and known for its strength, complex social groups, and close genetic relationship to humans.
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C.
Gorilla
"Gorilla" is a song by Bruno Mars from his album *Unorthodox Jukebox*, known for its sultry lyrics and rock-influenced pop sound.
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D.
Professor Monkey-For-A-Head
Professor Monkey-For-A-Head is a recurring mad-scientist villain from the Earthworm Jim video game and animated series, known for literally having a monkey grafted onto his head.
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E.
Ampersand (Yorick’s monkey)
Ampersand is the capuchin monkey companion of Yorick Brown in the comic series "Y: The Last Man," central to the mystery of why he and Yorick survived a global male-extinction plague.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.