The Cat’s Table
E859007
The Cat’s Table is a coming-of-age novel by Michael Ondaatje that follows a young boy’s transformative sea voyage from Sri Lanka to England in the early 1950s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Cat’s Table canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10391917 — 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: The Cat’s Table Context triple: [Warlight, precededBy, The Cat’s Table]
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A.
The Devil’s Backbone
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B.
Black Swan Green
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C.
Atonement
Atonement is the Christian theological concept describing how Jesus Christ’s life, death, and resurrection reconcile humanity with God and address the problem of sin.
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D.
Atonement
"Atonement" is an instrumental track from the Season 5 soundtrack of the television series Game of Thrones, composed by Ramin Djawadi.
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E.
Fingersmith
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- 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: The Cat’s Table Target entity description: The Cat’s Table is a coming-of-age novel by Michael Ondaatje that follows a young boy’s transformative sea voyage from Sri Lanka to England in the early 1950s.
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A.
The Devil’s Backbone
The Devil’s Backbone is a 2001 Spanish gothic horror film directed by Guillermo del Toro that blends ghost story elements with the trauma of the Spanish Civil War.
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B.
Black Swan Green
Black Swan Green is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel by David Mitchell that follows a year in the life of a stammering teenage boy in 1980s rural England.
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C.
Atonement
Atonement is the Christian theological concept describing how Jesus Christ’s life, death, and resurrection reconcile humanity with God and address the problem of sin.
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D.
Atonement
"Atonement" is an instrumental track from the Season 5 soundtrack of the television series Game of Thrones, composed by Ramin Djawadi.
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E.
Fingersmith
Fingersmith is a 2005 BBC television drama adaptation of Sarah Waters’ Victorian crime novel, noted for its intricate plot and exploration of class and lesbian romance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Michael Ondaatje ⓘ |
| authorNationality | Sri Lankan-born Canadian ⓘ |
| centralEvent | sea voyage from Colombo to England ⓘ |
| containsCharacter |
Asuntha
ⓘ
Cassius ⓘ Emily ⓘ Miss Lasqueti ⓘ Mr. Mazappa ⓘ Niemeyer ⓘ
linked to:
Oscar Niemeyer
Ramakrishna (Ramadhin) ⓘ The Baron ⓘ the Prisoner ⓘ
linked to:
The Prisoner
|
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| followedBy | Warlight ⓘ |
| genre |
coming-of-age fiction
ⓘ
historical fiction ⓘ |
| hasISBN |
978-0-224-09415-3
ⓘ
978-0-7710-5692-3 ⓘ |
| hasMediaType |
audiobook
ⓘ
e-book ⓘ print ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure | frame narrative with adult narrator recalling childhood voyage ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blending autobiography and fiction
ⓘ
depiction of ocean voyage from Ceylon to England ⓘ |
| pageCount | approximately 288 ⓘ |
| precededBy | Divisadero ⓘ |
| protagonist | Michael ⓘ |
| protagonistAge | 11 ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2011 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Jonathan Cape
ⓘ
McClelland & Stewart ⓘ
linked to:
McClelland and Stewart
|
| settingLocation |
England
ⓘ
Indian Ocean ⓘ Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | early 1950s ⓘ |
| shipName | Oronsay ⓘ |
| theme |
class and social hierarchy
ⓘ
colonialism and postcolonial identity ⓘ coming of age ⓘ friendship ⓘ loss of innocence ⓘ memory ⓘ |
| titleRefersTo | the least prestigious dining table on the ship ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Cat’s Table Description of subject: The Cat’s Table is a coming-of-age novel by Michael Ondaatje that follows a young boy’s transformative sea voyage from Sri Lanka to England in the early 1950s.
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