Percy Pilbeam
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Percy Pilbeam is a recurring, somewhat unscrupulous private detective and former journalist in P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Percy Pilbeam canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5557205 — 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: Percy Pilbeam Context triple: [Heavy Weather, featuresCharacter, Percy Pilbeam]
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A.
Thomas Pasley
Thomas Pasley was a Royal Navy officer who rose to flag rank during the late 18th and early 19th centuries and saw extensive service in the French Revolutionary Wars.
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B.
Percy Humphrey
Percy Humphrey was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader closely associated with the New Orleans traditional jazz scene.
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C.
Percy Cox
Percy Cox was a British colonial administrator and diplomat who played a key role in shaping modern Iraq and the Persian Gulf region in the early 20th century.
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D.
Percy Kilbride
Percy Kilbride was an American character actor best known for playing the amiable, slow-talking Pa Kettle in a popular series of mid-20th-century comedy films.
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E.
Herb Pennock
Herb Pennock was a Hall of Fame left-handed pitcher and later baseball executive best known for his successful career with the New York Yankees and his long involvement in Major League Baseball.
- 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: Percy Pilbeam Target entity description: Percy Pilbeam is a recurring, somewhat unscrupulous private detective and former journalist in P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories.
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A.
Thomas Pasley
Thomas Pasley was a Royal Navy officer who rose to flag rank during the late 18th and early 19th centuries and saw extensive service in the French Revolutionary Wars.
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B.
Percy Humphrey
Percy Humphrey was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader closely associated with the New Orleans traditional jazz scene.
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C.
Percy Cox
Percy Cox was a British colonial administrator and diplomat who played a key role in shaping modern Iraq and the Persian Gulf region in the early 20th century.
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D.
Percy Kilbride
Percy Kilbride was an American character actor best known for playing the amiable, slow-talking Pa Kettle in a popular series of mid-20th-century comedy films.
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E.
Herb Pennock
Herb Pennock was a Hall of Fame left-handed pitcher and later baseball executive best known for his successful career with the New York Yankees and his long involvement in Major League Baseball.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
P. G. Wodehouse character
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Blandings Castle stories
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linked to:
Blandings Castle series
Heavy Weather ⓘ Leave it to Psmith ⓘ
linked to:
Leave It to Psmith
Summer Lightning ⓘ The Crime Wave at Blandings ⓘ |
| associatedWithLocation | Blandings Castle ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
opportunistic
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unscrupulous ⓘ |
| creator | P. G. Wodehouse ⓘ |
| employer | various clients in Blandings Castle stories ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Blandings Castle series ⓘ |
| formerOccupation | journalist ⓘ |
| genre | comic fiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century English literature ⓘ |
| medium | prose fiction ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
comic mishaps during investigations
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morally flexible investigative methods ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
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private detective ⓘ |
| recursIn | multiple Blandings Castle stories ⓘ |
| roleInPlot |
comic antagonist
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investigator of stolen items ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: Percy Pilbeam Description of subject: Percy Pilbeam is a recurring, somewhat unscrupulous private detective and former journalist in P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.