Behemoth
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Behemoth is a large, demonic, talking black cat and one of Woland’s mischievous companions in Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel "The Master and Margarita."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Behemoth canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10108321 — 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: Behemoth Context triple: [The Master and Margarita, mainCharacter, Behemoth]
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A.
Behemoth
Behemoth is a towering steel hypercoaster at Canada's Wonderland known for its massive drops, high speeds, and airtime-filled layout.
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B.
The Beast
The Beast is a 1996 American made-for-television miniseries adaptation of Peter Benchley’s novel about a giant squid terrorizing a coastal community.
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C.
The Beast
The Beast was the fearsome nickname of Jimmie Foxx, a legendary power-hitting Major League Baseball slugger of the early 20th century.
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D.
The Beast
The Beast is a song by Bill Callahan featured on his album "Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest."
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E.
Gigante
Gigante is a municipality and town located in the Huila Department of southwestern Colombia, known for its agricultural activities and Andean landscapes.
- 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: Behemoth Target entity description: Behemoth is a large, demonic, talking black cat and one of Woland’s mischievous companions in Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel "The Master and Margarita."
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A.
Behemoth
Behemoth is a towering steel hypercoaster at Canada's Wonderland known for its massive drops, high speeds, and airtime-filled layout.
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B.
The Beast
The Beast is a 1996 American made-for-television miniseries adaptation of Peter Benchley’s novel about a giant squid terrorizing a coastal community.
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C.
The Beast
The Beast is a song by Bill Callahan featured on his album "Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest."
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D.
The Beast
The Beast was the fearsome nickname of Jimmie Foxx, a legendary power-hitting Major League Baseball slugger of the early 20th century.
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E.
Gigante
Gigante is a municipality and town located in the Huila Department of southwestern Colombia, known for its agricultural activities and Andean landscapes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anthropomorphic animal
ⓘ
cat ⓘ demon ⓘ fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| ability | talking ⓘ |
| alignment | mischievous ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Master and Margarita ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkBy | Mikhail Bulgakov ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Satanic ball
ⓘ
black magic ⓘ satire of Soviet society ⓘ |
| basedOn | biblical Behemoth (loosely, by name only) ⓘ |
| canPerform | magic tricks ⓘ |
| canTransform | into a humanlike form ⓘ |
| canUse |
firearms
ⓘ
matches ⓘ |
| color | black ⓘ |
| companionOf | Woland ⓘ |
| createdBy | Mikhail Bulgakov ⓘ |
| drinks |
vodka
ⓘ
wine ⓘ |
| eats | pickled mushrooms ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext | serialized in magazine Moskva ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasCompanion |
Azazello
ⓘ
Hella ⓘ Korovyev ⓘ |
| homeLocationInFiction | Woland's apartment on Sadovaya Street, Moscow ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Russian ⓘ |
| literaryGenre |
magic realism
ⓘ
satire ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Woland's retinue
ⓘ
linked to:
Woland
|
| nationalityOfWorkContext | Soviet ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a large demonic talking black cat
ⓘ
participating in magical pranks in Moscow ⓘ |
| notableScene |
Satan's ball at Woland's apartment
ⓘ
chaos at the Variety Theatre ⓘ |
| occupation | demon ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
boastful
ⓘ
playful ⓘ sarcastic ⓘ witty ⓘ |
| role |
comic relief
ⓘ
trickster ⓘ |
| settingOfAppearance | Moscow ⓘ |
| smokes | cigarettes ⓘ |
| species | cat ⓘ |
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: Behemoth Description of subject: Behemoth is a large, demonic, talking black cat and one of Woland’s mischievous companions in Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel "The Master and Margarita."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.