Old Possum (T. S. Eliot’s persona)
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Old Possum is the whimsical, feline-loving poetic persona adopted by T. S. Eliot, especially in his light verse about cats.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Old Possum (T. S. Eliot’s persona) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20237088 — 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: Old Possum (T. S. Eliot’s persona) Context triple: [The Cat About Town, hasAuthorialPersona, Old Possum (T. S. Eliot’s persona)]
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A.
J. Alfred Prufrock
J. Alfred Prufrock is the introspective, anxious, and self-doubting middle-aged narrator of T.S. Eliot’s modernist poem, whose fragmented thoughts reveal his profound alienation and fear of social and romantic failure.
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B.
Andrew Crocker-Harris in The Browning Version
Andrew Crocker-Harris in The Browning Version is the emotionally repressed, aging schoolmaster whose personal and professional crises form the tragic core of Terence Rattigan’s play and its film adaptation.
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C.
Osbert
Osbert is a central character in Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novel "The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne," known as the noble heir of Athlin who seeks to avenge his father’s death.
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D.
Eliot
Eliot is a masculine given name of English origin, often associated with writers and public figures such as T.S. Eliot and Eliot Richardson.
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E.
Eliot
Eliot is a light rail station on the MBTA Green Line D branch serving the Newton area of Greater Boston.
- 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: Old Possum (T. S. Eliot’s persona) Target entity description: Old Possum is the whimsical, feline-loving poetic persona adopted by T. S. Eliot, especially in his light verse about cats.
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A.
J. Alfred Prufrock
J. Alfred Prufrock is the introspective, anxious, and self-doubting middle-aged narrator of T.S. Eliot’s modernist poem, whose fragmented thoughts reveal his profound alienation and fear of social and romantic failure.
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B.
Andrew Crocker-Harris in The Browning Version
Andrew Crocker-Harris in The Browning Version is the emotionally repressed, aging schoolmaster whose personal and professional crises form the tragic core of Terence Rattigan’s play and its film adaptation.
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C.
Osbert
Osbert is a central character in Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novel "The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne," known as the noble heir of Athlin who seeks to avenge his father’s death.
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D.
Eliot
Eliot is a masculine given name of English origin, often associated with writers and public figures such as T.S. Eliot and Eliot Richardson.
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E.
Eliot
Eliot is a light rail station on the MBTA Green Line D branch serving the Newton area of Greater Boston.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.