Hidden Paw
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Hidden Paw is the epithet of Macavity, the elusive master-criminal cat from T. S. Eliot’s "Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats" and the musical "Cats."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hidden Paw canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5268979 — 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: Hidden Paw Context triple: [Macavity, hasEpithet, Hidden Paw]
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A.
Paws
Paws is the costumed team mascot of the WNBA’s Washington Mystics, entertaining fans at games and events.
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B.
Paws
Paws is the anthropomorphic tiger mascot of the Detroit Tigers Major League Baseball team, known for entertaining fans at games and community events.
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C.
Pounce the Cougar
Pounce the Cougar is the costumed athletic mascot representing the University of Minnesota Morris at its sporting events and campus activities.
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D.
The Hidden
The Hidden is a 1987 science fiction horror film about a parasitic alien criminal that possesses human bodies to continue its violent crime spree on Earth.
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E.
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank is a 2022 animated martial-arts comedy film that parodies Westerns and samurai movies, loosely inspired by Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles.
- 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: Hidden Paw Target entity description: Hidden Paw is the epithet of Macavity, the elusive master-criminal cat from T. S. Eliot’s "Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats" and the musical "Cats."
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A.
Paws
Paws is the costumed team mascot of the WNBA’s Washington Mystics, entertaining fans at games and events.
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B.
Paws
Paws is the anthropomorphic tiger mascot of the Detroit Tigers Major League Baseball team, known for entertaining fans at games and community events.
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C.
Pounce the Cougar
Pounce the Cougar is the costumed athletic mascot representing the University of Minnesota Morris at its sporting events and campus activities.
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D.
The Hidden
The Hidden is a 1987 science fiction horror film about a parasitic alien criminal that possesses human bodies to continue its violent crime spree on Earth.
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E.
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank is a 2022 animated martial-arts comedy film that parodies Westerns and samurai movies, loosely inspired by Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | literary character epithet ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
Cats
ⓘ
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats ⓘ
linked to:
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
|
| associatedWithSpecies | cat ⓘ |
| associatedWithTrait |
criminal mastermind
ⓘ
elusiveness ⓘ |
| characterRoleContext | villain ⓘ |
| creator | T. S. Eliot ⓘ |
| describes | elusive master-criminal cat ⓘ |
| epithetOf | Macavity ⓘ |
| fandom | Cats fandom ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn |
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
ⓘ
linked to:
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
|
| genreContext |
children’s poetry
ⓘ
comic verse ⓘ |
| hasCulturalImpact | iconic phrase among Cats fans ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryOrigin | poetry ⓘ |
| medium |
literature
ⓘ
musical theatre ⓘ |
| notableLineAssociation |
Macavity’s a Mystery Cat: he’s called the Hidden Paw
ⓘ
linked to:
The Mystery Cat
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| partOfFranchise | Cats (franchise) ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1939 ⓘ |
| settingContext |
London (implied setting in poems)
ⓘ
linked to:
"London"
|
| usedAs |
alias
ⓘ
nickname ⓘ |
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: Hidden Paw Description of subject: Hidden Paw is the epithet of Macavity, the elusive master-criminal cat from T. S. Eliot’s "Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats" and the musical "Cats."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.