Top Cat
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Top Cat is a classic animated television series created by Hanna-Barbera that follows the comedic misadventures of a streetwise alley cat and his gang in New York City.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Top Cat canonical | 7 |
| Top Cat Begins | 1 |
| Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats | 1 |
| Top Cat is the streetwise leader of a gang of alley cats | 1 |
| Top Cat: The Movie | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2470619 — 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: Top Cat Context triple: [Hanna-Barbera, notableWork, Top Cat]
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A.
Aristocat the Tiger
Aristocat the Tiger is the costumed tiger mascot that represents Tennessee State University at its athletic events and campus activities.
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B.
Los Gatos
Los Gatos is an affluent town in California’s Silicon Valley known for its historic downtown, upscale residential neighborhoods, and proximity to major tech companies.
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C.
Blaze the Trail Cat
Blaze the Trail Cat is the energetic, feline-themed mascot who entertains fans at Portland Trail Blazers basketball games.
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D.
The Cat's Meow
The Cat's Meow is a 2001 period mystery-drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich that dramatizes the infamous 1924 death aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht involving figures like Charlie Chaplin and Marion Davies.
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E.
Mr. Goodkat
Mr. Goodkat is a mysterious, highly skilled hitman central to the plot of the crime thriller film "Lucky Number Slevin."
- 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: Top Cat Target entity description: Top Cat is a classic animated television series created by Hanna-Barbera that follows the comedic misadventures of a streetwise alley cat and his gang in New York City.
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A.
Aristocat the Tiger
Aristocat the Tiger is the costumed tiger mascot that represents Tennessee State University at its athletic events and campus activities.
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B.
Los Gatos
Los Gatos is an affluent town in California’s Silicon Valley known for its historic downtown, upscale residential neighborhoods, and proximity to major tech companies.
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C.
Blaze the Trail Cat
Blaze the Trail Cat is the energetic, feline-themed mascot who entertains fans at Portland Trail Blazers basketball games.
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D.
The Cat's Meow
The Cat's Meow is a 2001 period mystery-drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich that dramatizes the infamous 1924 death aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht involving figures like Charlie Chaplin and Marion Davies.
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E.
Mr. Goodkat
Mr. Goodkat is a mysterious, highly skilled hitman central to the plot of the crime thriller film "Lucky Number Slevin."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American television series
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Hanna-Barbera production ⓘ animated television series ⓘ |
| airedInTimeSlot | prime time ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | T.C. ⓘ |
| broadcastDecade | 1960s ⓘ |
| characterRole |
Top Cat
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Top Cat is the streetwise leader of a gang of alley cats
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| creator |
Hanna-Barbera
ⓘ
Joseph Barbera ⓘ William Hanna ⓘ |
| distributor | Screen Gems ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1961-09-27 ⓘ |
| format | 2D animation ⓘ |
| genre |
animated comedy
ⓘ
sitcom ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Benny the Ball
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Brain ⓘ Choo-Choo ⓘ Fancy-Fancy ⓘ Officer Dibble ⓘ Spook ⓘ Top Cat self-link ⓘ |
| hasFilmAdaptation |
Top Cat
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Top Cat Begins
Top Cat self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Top Cat: The Movie
|
| hasHomeMediaRelease |
DVD
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VHS ⓘ |
| hasMerchandise |
comic books
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home video releases ⓘ toys ⓘ |
| hasSpinOff |
Top Cat
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
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| inspiredBy | The Phil Silvers Show ⓘ |
| lastAired | 1962-04-18 ⓘ |
| leadVoiceActor | Arnold Stang ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Top Cat self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor | portrayal of a streetwise alley cat gang in New York City ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 30 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 1 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | ABC ⓘ |
| originalRunStatus | ended ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Hanna-Barbera
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surface form:
Hanna-Barbera Productions
|
| settingLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
children
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family ⓘ |
| theme | comedic misadventures of alley cats ⓘ |
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: Top Cat Description of subject: Top Cat is a classic animated television series created by Hanna-Barbera that follows the comedic misadventures of a streetwise alley cat and his gang in New York City.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Top Cat is the streetwise leader of a gang of alley cats
this entity surface form:
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
this entity surface form:
Top Cat: The Movie
this entity surface form:
Top Cat Begins
subject surface form:
Jean Vander Pyl