Lord Emsworth
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Lord Emsworth is a dreamy, absent-minded English earl and master of Blandings Castle in P. G. Wodehouse’s comic stories, best known for his love of pigs and aversion to responsibility.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lord Emsworth canonical | 56 |
| Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth | 15 |
| 9th Earl of Emsworth | 2 |
| Lord Emsworth is the absent-minded earl of Blandings | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T216189 — 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: Lord Emsworth Context triple: [P. G. Wodehouse, notableCharacterCreated, Lord Emsworth]
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Jeeves
Jeeves is the famously unflappable and supremely competent valet who serves as the central comic foil and problem-solver in P. G. Wodehouse’s stories about Bertie Wooster.
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Bertie Wooster
Bertie Wooster is a wealthy, amiable, and somewhat dim-witted young English gentleman best known as the hapless master of the supremely competent valet Jeeves in P. G. Wodehouse’s comic stories.
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C.
Phineas Finn
Phineas Finn is a political novel by Anthony Trollope that follows the career and personal struggles of an ambitious young Irishman in Victorian British Parliament.
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D.
Sir Walter Mildmay
Sir Walter Mildmay was a 16th-century English statesman and Chancellor of the Exchequer under Queen Elizabeth I, noted for his influential role in government and support of education and Puritan reform.
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P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse was an English author celebrated for his witty, farcical comic novels and stories, particularly those featuring Jeeves and Wooster.
- 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: Lord Emsworth Target entity description: Lord Emsworth is a dreamy, absent-minded English earl and master of Blandings Castle in P. G. Wodehouse’s comic stories, best known for his love of pigs and aversion to responsibility.
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A.
Jeeves
Jeeves is the famously unflappable and supremely competent valet who serves as the central comic foil and problem-solver in P. G. Wodehouse’s stories about Bertie Wooster.
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B.
Bertie Wooster
Bertie Wooster is a wealthy, amiable, and somewhat dim-witted young English gentleman best known as the hapless master of the supremely competent valet Jeeves in P. G. Wodehouse’s comic stories.
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C.
Phineas Finn
Phineas Finn is a political novel by Anthony Trollope that follows the career and personal struggles of an ambitious young Irishman in Victorian British Parliament.
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D.
Sir Walter Mildmay
Sir Walter Mildmay was a 16th-century English statesman and Chancellor of the Exchequer under Queen Elizabeth I, noted for his influential role in government and support of education and Puritan reform.
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E.
P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse was an English author celebrated for his witty, farcical comic novels and stories, particularly those featuring Jeeves and Wooster.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Lord Emsworth Description of subject: Lord Emsworth is a dreamy, absent-minded English earl and master of Blandings Castle in P. G. Wodehouse’s comic stories, best known for his love of pigs and aversion to responsibility.
Referenced by (74)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
P. G. Wodehouse
this entity surface form:
Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
this entity surface form:
9th Earl of Emsworth
subject surface form:
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
this entity surface form:
Lord Emsworth is the absent-minded earl of Blandings
this entity surface form:
Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
this entity surface form:
Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
this entity surface form:
Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
this entity surface form:
Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
this entity surface form:
Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
this entity surface form:
Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
this entity surface form:
Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
this entity surface form:
Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
this entity surface form:
Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth