The Great Sermon Handicap
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The Great Sermon Handicap is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse featuring Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves getting entangled in a betting scheme on the length of clergymen’s sermons.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Great Sermon Handicap canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5557011 — 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: The Great Sermon Handicap Context triple: [Wooster stories, notableWorkInCycle, The Great Sermon Handicap]
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A.
Eclipse Stakes
Eclipse Stakes is a prestigious Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain for three-year-olds and up, run annually over 1¼ miles at Sandown Park.
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B.
Man o’ War Stakes
The Man o’ War Stakes is a prestigious American Grade I turf horse race for older thoroughbreds, named in honor of the legendary racehorse Man o’ War.
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C.
Acorn Stakes
The Acorn Stakes is a prestigious American Grade I horse race for three-year-old fillies, traditionally serving as the first leg of the Triple Tiara.
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D.
Sword Dancer Stakes
The Sword Dancer Stakes is a prestigious Grade I American thoroughbred horse race run on turf at Saratoga Race Course, typically attracting top long-distance turf specialists.
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E.
Nassau Stakes
The Nassau Stakes is a prestigious Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain for fillies and mares, run annually at Goodwood Racecourse over a middle distance.
- 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: The Great Sermon Handicap Target entity description: The Great Sermon Handicap is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse featuring Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves getting entangled in a betting scheme on the length of clergymen’s sermons.
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A.
Eclipse Stakes
Eclipse Stakes is a prestigious Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain for three-year-olds and up, run annually over 1¼ miles at Sandown Park.
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B.
Man o’ War Stakes
The Man o’ War Stakes is a prestigious American Grade I turf horse race for older thoroughbreds, named in honor of the legendary racehorse Man o’ War.
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C.
Acorn Stakes
The Acorn Stakes is a prestigious American Grade I horse race for three-year-old fillies, traditionally serving as the first leg of the Triple Tiara.
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D.
Sword Dancer Stakes
The Sword Dancer Stakes is a prestigious Grade I American thoroughbred horse race run on turf at Saratoga Race Course, typically attracting top long-distance turf specialists.
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E.
Nassau Stakes
The Nassau Stakes is a prestigious Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain for fillies and mares, run annually at Goodwood Racecourse over a middle distance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jeeves story
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short story ⓘ |
| author | P. G. Wodehouse ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Aunt Agatha
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Bertie Wooster ⓘ Bingo Little ⓘ Harold Pinker ⓘ Jeeves ⓘ Steggles ⓘ various clergymen ⓘ |
| fictionalGenre | comic literature ⓘ |
| genre |
comic short story
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humour ⓘ |
| hasAristocraticCharacter | Bertie Wooster ⓘ |
| hasProtagonist | Bertie Wooster ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
British social life
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clergymen ⓘ gambling ⓘ |
| hasSupportingCharacter | Jeeves ⓘ |
| hasValetCharacter | Jeeves ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | 20th-century British comic fiction ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
Wodehousean dialogue
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first-person narration ⓘ |
| literaryUniverse | Jeeves and Wooster ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
betting on sermon length
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satire of the clergy ⓘ upper-class leisure ⓘ |
| narrator | Bertie Wooster ⓘ |
| notableFor |
comic treatment of religious sermons
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elaborate betting pool on sermons ⓘ |
| partOf |
the Jeeves short stories corpus
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linked to:
The World of Jeeves
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| plotElement |
Jeeves’s intervention to resolve complications
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betting scheme organized among young men ⓘ measurement of sermon duration ⓘ |
| series | Jeeves ⓘ |
| setting | English countryside ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| tone |
comic
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light-hearted ⓘ |
| workOfAuthor | P. G. Wodehouse ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Great Sermon Handicap Description of subject: The Great Sermon Handicap is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse featuring Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves getting entangled in a betting scheme on the length of clergymen’s sermons.
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