The Mad Yak
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"The Mad Yak" is a darkly comic, surreal poem by American Beat writer Charles Bukowski that reflects his characteristic themes of alienation, absurdity, and the brutality of everyday life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Mad Yak canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12855366 — 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 Mad Yak Context triple: [The Happy Birthday of Death, notablePoem, The Mad Yak]
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A.
Howling Mad
Howling Mad is the eccentric and wildly unpredictable pilot character from the 1980s television series "The A-Team."
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B.
Buckwild
Buckwild is an American hip-hop producer and member of the Diggin' in the Crates Crew (D.I.T.C.), known for his influential work with artists like The Notorious B.I.G., O.C., and Big L.
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C.
Moabdar
Moabdar is a fictional king character, most notably appearing as a ruler in classic fantasy literature.
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D.
Skates the Wolf
Skates the Wolf is the costumed wolf mascot who entertains fans and represents the American Hockey League’s Chicago Wolves team at games and events.
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E.
Aghwee the Sky Monster
Aghwee the Sky Monster is a surreal, symbolic short story by Kenzaburō Ōe that explores guilt, madness, and the blurred boundary between reality and hallucination.
- 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 Mad Yak Target entity description: "The Mad Yak" is a darkly comic, surreal poem by American Beat writer Charles Bukowski that reflects his characteristic themes of alienation, absurdity, and the brutality of everyday life.
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A.
Howling Mad
Howling Mad is the eccentric and wildly unpredictable pilot character from the 1980s television series "The A-Team."
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B.
Buckwild
Buckwild is an American hip-hop producer and member of the Diggin' in the Crates Crew (D.I.T.C.), known for his influential work with artists like The Notorious B.I.G., O.C., and Big L.
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C.
Moabdar
Moabdar is a fictional king character, most notably appearing as a ruler in classic fantasy literature.
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D.
Skates the Wolf
Skates the Wolf is the costumed wolf mascot who entertains fans and represents the American Hockey League’s Chicago Wolves team at games and events.
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E.
Aghwee the Sky Monster
Aghwee the Sky Monster is a surreal, symbolic short story by Kenzaburō Ōe that explores guilt, madness, and the blurred boundary between reality and hallucination.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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poem ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthorPersona | outsider ⓘ |
| author | Charles Bukowski ⓘ |
| authorNationality | American ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| genre |
dark comedy
ⓘ
poetry ⓘ surrealism ⓘ |
| hasAuthorCharacteristicThemes |
absurdity
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alienation ⓘ violence and brutality ⓘ |
| hasForm | free verse ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Beat Generation ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | American underground literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
absurdity
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alienation ⓘ brutality of everyday life ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| style |
darkly comic
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surreal ⓘ |
| tone |
bleakly humorous
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cynical ⓘ |
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: The Mad Yak Description of subject: "The Mad Yak" is a darkly comic, surreal poem by American Beat writer Charles Bukowski that reflects his characteristic themes of alienation, absurdity, and the brutality of everyday life.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.