Monty Bodkin
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Monty Bodkin is a recurring P. G. Wodehouse character, a wealthy but often luckless young man entangled in romantic and employment mishaps across several comic novels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Monty Bodkin canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5557672 — 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: Monty Bodkin Context triple: [Blandings Castle canon, featuresCharacter, Monty Bodkin]
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A.
Simon Dunsdon
Simon Dunsdon is a cinematographer known for his work on the animated film "Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation."
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B.
Cecil Healy
Cecil Healy was an Australian freestyle swimmer best known for winning a gold and silver medal at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics and for his notable sportsmanship in insisting a delayed rival be allowed to compete.
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C.
Philip Vanderpole
Philip Vanderpole is a fictional character portrayed by child actor Freddie Bartholomew, likely in a classic early 20th-century film or literary adaptation.
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D.
Jervis McEntee
Jervis McEntee was a 19th-century American landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School, known for his poetic, melancholic depictions of nature.
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E.
Hugh Stubbins
Hugh Stubbins was an American architect known for designing prominent modernist buildings such as the Citicorp Center in New York City.
- 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: Monty Bodkin Target entity description: Monty Bodkin is a recurring P. G. Wodehouse character, a wealthy but often luckless young man entangled in romantic and employment mishaps across several comic novels.
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A.
Simon Dunsdon
Simon Dunsdon is a cinematographer known for his work on the animated film "Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation."
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B.
Cecil Healy
Cecil Healy was an Australian freestyle swimmer best known for winning a gold and silver medal at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics and for his notable sportsmanship in insisting a delayed rival be allowed to compete.
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C.
Philip Vanderpole
Philip Vanderpole is a fictional character portrayed by child actor Freddie Bartholomew, likely in a classic early 20th-century film or literary adaptation.
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D.
Jervis McEntee
Jervis McEntee was a 19th-century American landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School, known for his poetic, melancholic depictions of nature.
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E.
Hugh Stubbins
Hugh Stubbins was an American architect known for designing prominent modernist buildings such as the Citicorp Center in New York City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
P. G. Wodehouse character
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fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Company for Henry
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Frozen Assets ⓘ Heavy Weather ⓘ Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin ⓘ The Luck of the Bodkins ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
comic misunderstandings
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employment mishaps ⓘ romantic entanglements ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
good-natured
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luckless ⓘ often unemployed ⓘ romantically hapless ⓘ |
| characterType | wealthy young man ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | P. G. Wodehouse ⓘ |
| familyBackground | wealthy family ⓘ |
| fullName | Montague Bodkin ⓘ |
| genre | comic fiction character ⓘ |
| givenName | Montague ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century English literature ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
protagonist in Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin
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protagonist in The Luck of the Bodkins ⓘ supporting character in Heavy Weather ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| nickname | Monty ⓘ |
| notableFor |
comic romantic complications
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repeated failures to keep steady employment ⓘ |
| occupation |
magazine employee
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occasional secretary ⓘ |
| romanticInterest |
Gertrude Butterwick
ⓘ
Sue Brown ⓘ |
| settingUniverse |
Blandings Castle series
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Wodehouse shared universe ⓘ |
| sharesUniverseWith |
Galahad Threepwood
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Lord Emsworth ⓘ Ronnie Fish ⓘ |
| socialClass | upper class ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Monty Bodkin Description of subject: Monty Bodkin is a recurring P. G. Wodehouse character, a wealthy but often luckless young man entangled in romantic and employment mishaps across several comic novels.
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