Book and Snake
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Book and Snake is one of Yale University's historic senior secret societies, known for its selective membership and longstanding campus traditions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Book and Snake canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4612826 — 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: Book and Snake Context triple: [Yale senior societies, includes, Book and Snake]
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A.
The Snakes
The Snakes is a subgroup affiliated with the Brooklyn hip-hop collective Junior M.A.F.I.A., associated with the mid-1990s East Coast rap scene.
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B.
The Snake’s Skin
The Snake’s Skin is a modernist Georgian novel by Grigol Robakidze that explores themes of identity, transformation, and national consciousness through symbolic and philosophical narrative.
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C.
Scott’s Great Snake
Scott’s Great Snake is a satirical cartoon representation of the Union’s Civil War strategy to blockade and suffocate the Confederacy, visually depicting the Anaconda Plan as a giant snake encircling the Southern states.
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D.
The Snail
The Snail is a late-career cut-out collage by Henri Matisse that arranges bold, colorful paper shapes into a semi-abstract spiral composition.
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E.
The Penguin
The Penguin is a deformed, crime-lord supervillain in the Batman universe, portrayed as a tragic and grotesque antagonist in the film "Batman Returns."
- 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: Book and Snake Target entity description: Book and Snake is one of Yale University's historic senior secret societies, known for its selective membership and longstanding campus traditions.
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A.
The Snakes
The Snakes is a subgroup affiliated with the Brooklyn hip-hop collective Junior M.A.F.I.A., associated with the mid-1990s East Coast rap scene.
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B.
The Snake’s Skin
The Snake’s Skin is a modernist Georgian novel by Grigol Robakidze that explores themes of identity, transformation, and national consciousness through symbolic and philosophical narrative.
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C.
Scott’s Great Snake
Scott’s Great Snake is a satirical cartoon representation of the Union’s Civil War strategy to blockade and suffocate the Confederacy, visually depicting the Anaconda Plan as a giant snake encircling the Southern states.
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D.
The Snail
The Snail is a late-career cut-out collage by Henri Matisse that arranges bold, colorful paper shapes into a semi-abstract spiral composition.
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E.
The Penguin
The Penguin is a deformed, crime-lord supervillain in the Batman universe, portrayed as a tragic and grotesque antagonist in the film "Batman Returns."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Yale senior society
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secret society ⓘ |
| affiliation | Yale University ⓘ |
| associatedConcept |
Yale secret societies
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collegiate secret societies ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Yale College ⓘ |
| campus | Yale University campus ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| hasCharacteristic |
elite
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historic ⓘ secretive ⓘ |
| knownFor |
exclusive membership
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longstanding campus traditions ⓘ rituals ⓘ secrecy ⓘ |
| languageOfInstitution | English ⓘ |
| location | New Haven, Connecticut ⓘ |
| memberRank | senior class ⓘ |
| membershipSelection | selective ⓘ |
| membershipType | senior students ⓘ |
| operatesAs | private society ⓘ |
| organizationalScope | undergraduate ⓘ |
| organizationalType | student society ⓘ |
| tradition |
annual tapping of new members
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senior-year activities ⓘ |
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: Book and Snake Description of subject: Book and Snake is one of Yale University's historic senior secret societies, known for its selective membership and longstanding campus traditions.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.