Stevens (the butler)
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Stevens is the emotionally restrained English butler who narrates Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel "The Remains of the Day," embodying themes of duty, dignity, and regret.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Stevens (the butler) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20995248 — 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: Stevens (the butler) Context triple: [Colonel Moulton-Barrett in The Remains of the Day (stage), connectedTo, Stevens (the butler)]
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Stevens (club butler)
Stevens is a discreet, formal butler who serves the mysterious gentlemen’s club in Stephen King’s novella "The Breathing Method," quietly facilitating the club’s eerie storytelling gatherings.
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B.
Lucan the Butler
Lucan the Butler is a knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, known for his loyalty and service to King Arthur.
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C.
Domovoi Butler
Domovoi Butler is the highly skilled and fiercely loyal bodyguard and manservant to child criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl in Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl series.
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D.
Gerald Croft
Gerald Croft is a wealthy, socially ambitious young businessman whose affair with a working-class woman exposes his moral hypocrisy in J.B. Priestley’s play "An Inspector Calls."
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E.
Mr. Bedford
Mr. Bedford is the pragmatic, often self-interested narrator and businessman who accompanies the eccentric scientist Cavor to the Moon in H. G. Wells’s science fiction novel "The First Men in the Moon."
- 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: Stevens (the butler) Target entity description: Stevens is the emotionally restrained English butler who narrates Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel "The Remains of the Day," embodying themes of duty, dignity, and regret.
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A.
Stevens (club butler)
Stevens is a discreet, formal butler who serves the mysterious gentlemen’s club in Stephen King’s novella "The Breathing Method," quietly facilitating the club’s eerie storytelling gatherings.
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B.
Lucan the Butler
Lucan the Butler is a knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, known for his loyalty and service to King Arthur.
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C.
Domovoi Butler
Domovoi Butler is the highly skilled and fiercely loyal bodyguard and manservant to child criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl in Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl series.
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D.
Gerald Croft
Gerald Croft is a wealthy, socially ambitious young businessman whose affair with a working-class woman exposes his moral hypocrisy in J.B. Priestley’s play "An Inspector Calls."
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E.
Mr. Bedford
Mr. Bedford is the pragmatic, often self-interested narrator and businessman who accompanies the eccentric scientist Cavor to the Moon in H. G. Wells’s science fiction novel "The First Men in the Moon."
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.