The Zebra Derby
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The Zebra Derby is a humorous novel by American writer Max Shulman, known for its satirical take on mid-20th-century American life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Zebra Derby canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1280864 — 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 Zebra Derby Context triple: [Max Shulman, notableWork, The Zebra Derby]
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A.
El gran zoo
El gran zoo is a celebrated poetry collection by Cuban writer Nicolás Guillén that uses the metaphor of a fantastical zoo to deliver sharp social and political satire.
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B.
The Leopard's Spots
The Leopard's Spots is a 1902 white supremacist novel by Thomas Dixon Jr. that helped inspire D.W. Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation.
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C.
If I Ran the Zoo
If I Ran the Zoo is a Dr. Seuss–themed interactive play area and attraction located in the Seuss Landing section of Universal's Islands of Adventure.
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D.
Elephant Lands
Elephant Lands is a large, naturalistic elephant habitat and exhibit at the Oregon Zoo designed to support the physical and behavioral needs of Asian elephants.
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E.
The Nine Bears
The Nine Bears is a crime novel by British writer Edgar Wallace, featuring one of his characteristic fast-paced mystery plots involving high-stakes intrigue and investigation.
- 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 Zebra Derby Target entity description: The Zebra Derby is a humorous novel by American writer Max Shulman, known for its satirical take on mid-20th-century American life.
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A.
El gran zoo
El gran zoo is a celebrated poetry collection by Cuban writer Nicolás Guillén that uses the metaphor of a fantastical zoo to deliver sharp social and political satire.
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B.
The Leopard's Spots
The Leopard's Spots is a 1902 white supremacist novel by Thomas Dixon Jr. that helped inspire D.W. Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation.
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C.
If I Ran the Zoo
If I Ran the Zoo is a Dr. Seuss–themed interactive play area and attraction located in the Seuss Landing section of Universal's Islands of Adventure.
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D.
Elephant Lands
Elephant Lands is a large, naturalistic elephant habitat and exhibit at the Oregon Zoo designed to support the physical and behavioral needs of Asian elephants.
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E.
The Nine Bears
The Nine Bears is a crime novel by British writer Edgar Wallace, featuring one of his characteristic fast-paced mystery plots involving high-stakes intrigue and investigation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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novel ⓘ person ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| author | Max Shulman ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| genre |
humorous novel
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satire ⓘ |
| hasCreator | Max Shulman ⓘ |
| isNotableFor |
humorous treatment of contemporary society
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satirical take on American life ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| mainTheme | mid-20th-century American life ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | fiction ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Zebra Derby ⓘ |
| occupation |
humorist
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novelist ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
humorous
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satirical ⓘ |
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 Zebra Derby Description of subject: The Zebra Derby is a humorous novel by American writer Max Shulman, known for its satirical take on mid-20th-century American life.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Zebra Derby