Captain Waggett
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Captain Waggett is a pompous, regulation-obsessed Home Guard officer whose attempts to control a shipwrecked whisky cargo provide much of the comic conflict in the novel and film "Whisky Galore!".
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Captain Waggett canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22100815 — 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 Waggett Context triple: [Whisky Galore!, mainCharacter, Captain Waggett]
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Captain Wragge
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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B.
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.
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Captain Nicholl
Captain Nicholl is a key character in Jules Verne's novel "From the Earth to the Moon," known as an engineer and rival to the protagonist Barbicane in the story's ambitious lunar expedition.
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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 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.
- 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 Waggett Target entity description: Captain Waggett is a pompous, regulation-obsessed Home Guard officer whose attempts to control a shipwrecked whisky cargo provide much of the comic conflict in the novel and film "Whisky Galore!".
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A.
Captain Wragge
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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B.
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.
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C.
Captain Nicholl
Captain Nicholl is a key character in Jules Verne's novel "From the Earth to the Moon," known as an engineer and rival to the protagonist Barbicane in the story's ambitious lunar expedition.
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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 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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.