Captain Wragge
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Captain Wragge is a shrewd, opportunistic adventurer and con man who plays a central role in Wilkie Collins’s Victorian sensation novel "No Name."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Captain Wragge canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17926144 — 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: Captain Wragge Context triple: [No Name, character, Captain Wragge]
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A.
Captain Brierly
Captain Brierly is a respected yet deeply conflicted sea captain in Joseph Conrad’s novel "Lord Jim," whose outward success masks an inner turmoil about honor and moral failure.
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B.
Captain Ed Hocken
Captain Ed Hocken is a bumbling police officer character from the parody film "Police Squad!" and the original "The Naked Gun" movie, known for his deadpan involvement in absurd crime investigations.
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C.
Captain MacWhirr
Captain MacWhirr is the stolid, unimaginative sea captain at the center of Joseph Conrad’s novella "Typhoon," known for his literal-minded sense of duty as he steers his ship into a devastating storm.
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D.
Captain Vere
Captain Vere is the morally conflicted naval commander in Herman Melville’s novella "Billy Budd, Sailor," whose strict adherence to martial law leads to the tragic execution of the innocent Billy.
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E.
Captain Nicholls
Captain Nicholls is a British army officer in Michael Morpurgo’s novel "War Horse," known for his compassion toward the horse Joey and his role early in the story’s depiction of World War I.
- 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: Captain Wragge Target entity description: Captain Wragge is a shrewd, opportunistic adventurer and con man who plays a central role in Wilkie Collins’s Victorian sensation novel "No Name."
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A.
Captain Brierly
Captain Brierly is a respected yet deeply conflicted sea captain in Joseph Conrad’s novel "Lord Jim," whose outward success masks an inner turmoil about honor and moral failure.
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B.
Captain Ed Hocken
Captain Ed Hocken is a bumbling police officer character from the parody film "Police Squad!" and the original "The Naked Gun" movie, known for his deadpan involvement in absurd crime investigations.
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C.
Captain MacWhirr
Captain MacWhirr is the stolid, unimaginative sea captain at the center of Joseph Conrad’s novella "Typhoon," known for his literal-minded sense of duty as he steers his ship into a devastating storm.
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D.
Captain Vere
Captain Vere is the morally conflicted naval commander in Herman Melville’s novella "Billy Budd, Sailor," whose strict adherence to martial law leads to the tragic execution of the innocent Billy.
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E.
Captain Nicholls
Captain Nicholls is a British army officer in Michael Morpurgo’s novel "War Horse," known for his compassion toward the horse Joey and his role early in the story’s depiction of World War I.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.