I Was a Cat from a Book
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I Was a Cat from a Book is a 2012 folk album by Scottish singer-songwriter James Yorkston, noted for its intimate songwriting and rich acoustic arrangements.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| I Was a Cat from a Book canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11758106 — 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: I Was a Cat from a Book Context triple: [James Yorkston, notableWork, I Was a Cat from a Book]
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A.
The Mysterious Cat
"The Mysterious Cat" is a whimsical, slightly eerie poem by Vachel Lindsay that portrays a strange, otherworldly feline with supernatural overtones.
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B.
The Cat That Walked by Himself
The Cat That Walked by Himself is a Rudyard Kipling short story from his "Just So Stories" collection that whimsically explains how the once-wild cat came to live with humans while preserving his independence.
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C.
Tale of the Cat
Tale of the Cat is a Grade I-winning Thoroughbred racehorse and successful sire known for producing numerous stakes winners in North America.
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D.
The Mystery Cat
The Mystery Cat is the epithet of Macavity, the elusive master-criminal feline from T. S. Eliot’s "Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats."
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E.
The Cat About Town
The Cat About Town is a distinguished, portly, and impeccably dressed feline character from T.S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats,” known for frequenting gentlemen’s clubs and living a life of refined leisure.
- 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: I Was a Cat from a Book Target entity description: I Was a Cat from a Book is a 2012 folk album by Scottish singer-songwriter James Yorkston, noted for its intimate songwriting and rich acoustic arrangements.
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A.
The Mysterious Cat
"The Mysterious Cat" is a whimsical, slightly eerie poem by Vachel Lindsay that portrays a strange, otherworldly feline with supernatural overtones.
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B.
The Cat That Walked by Himself
The Cat That Walked by Himself is a Rudyard Kipling short story from his "Just So Stories" collection that whimsically explains how the once-wild cat came to live with humans while preserving his independence.
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C.
Tale of the Cat
Tale of the Cat is a Grade I-winning Thoroughbred racehorse and successful sire known for producing numerous stakes winners in North America.
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D.
The Mystery Cat
The Mystery Cat is the epithet of Macavity, the elusive master-criminal feline from T. S. Eliot’s "Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats."
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E.
The Cat About Town
The Cat About Town is a distinguished, portly, and impeccably dressed feline character from T.S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats,” known for frequenting gentlemen’s clubs and living a life of refined leisure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
folk album
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music album ⓘ studio album ⓘ |
| artist | James Yorkston ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Scotland ⓘ |
| creator | James Yorkston ⓘ |
| genre |
folk
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singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| hasQuality |
intimate songwriting
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rich acoustic arrangements ⓘ |
| hasSongwriter | James Yorkston ⓘ |
| hasStyle | acoustic ⓘ |
| hasType | full-length album ⓘ |
| isInDiscographyOf | James Yorkston ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | James Yorkston ⓘ |
| performer | James Yorkston ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2012 ⓘ |
| recordingArtistNationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2012 ⓘ |
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: I Was a Cat from a Book Description of subject: I Was a Cat from a Book is a 2012 folk album by Scottish singer-songwriter James Yorkston, noted for its intimate songwriting and rich acoustic arrangements.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.