Monty Kipps
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Monty Kipps is a conservative, Trinidadian-born academic and Christian intellectual who serves as a central foil to the liberal Belsey family in Zadie Smith’s novel "On Beauty."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Monty Kipps canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6984018 — 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 Kipps Context triple: [On Beauty, featuresCharacter, Monty Kipps]
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A.
Monty Bodkin
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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B.
Monty
Monty is the nickname of British Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, a prominent World War II commander best known for his leadership in the North African and European campaigns.
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C.
Monty
Monty is the costumed biscuit-themed mascot of the Montgomery Biscuits Minor League Baseball team.
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D.
Marvyn
Marvyn is an English surname historically associated with families such as that of the Tudor-era politician James Marvyn.
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E.
Gulley Jimson
Gulley Jimson is a disreputable, obsessive, and eccentric aging painter who serves as the roguish antihero of Joyce Cary’s comic novel "The Horse’s Mouth."
- 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 Kipps Target entity description: Monty Kipps is a conservative, Trinidadian-born academic and Christian intellectual who serves as a central foil to the liberal Belsey family in Zadie Smith’s novel "On Beauty."
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A.
Monty Bodkin
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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B.
Monty
Monty is the nickname of British Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, a prominent World War II commander best known for his leadership in the North African and European campaigns.
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C.
Monty
Monty is the costumed biscuit-themed mascot of the Montgomery Biscuits Minor League Baseball team.
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D.
Marvyn
Marvyn is an English surname historically associated with families such as that of the Tudor-era politician James Marvyn.
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E.
Gulley Jimson
Gulley Jimson is a disreputable, obsessive, and eccentric aging painter who serves as the roguish antihero of Joyce Cary’s comic novel "The Horse’s Mouth."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian intellectual
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academic ⓘ fictional character ⓘ novel character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | On Beauty ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
conservative
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intellectual ⓘ religious ⓘ |
| conflictsWith |
Howard Belsey
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the Belsey family ⓘ
linked to:
Belsey family
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| countryOfOrigin | Trinidad and Tobago ⓘ |
| createdBy | Zadie Smith ⓘ |
| familyName | Kipps ⓘ |
| firstPublicationAppearance |
On Beauty (2005)
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linked to:
On Beauty
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| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | novel ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
cultural criticism
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humanities ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Michael Kipps
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Victoria Kipps ⓘ |
| hasEthnicBackground |
Black
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Caribbean ⓘ |
| hasMoralViewpoint |
religious traditionalism
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social conservatism ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
academic
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professor ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Carlene Kipps ⓘ |
| ideology | conservatism ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
Sir Thomas Bertram from Mansfield Park (loosely, via the novel’s intertext with E. M. Forster and Austen)
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linked to:
Sir Thomas Bertram
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| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 21st-century British literature ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
contrast with Howard Belsey
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embodiment of conservative moral values ⓘ |
| nationality | Trinidadian ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | right-wing ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
central antagonist
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foil to the Belsey family ⓘ |
| setting | fictional New England college town ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
culture wars in academia
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faith versus secularism ⓘ race and class in higher education ⓘ |
| workAuthor | Zadie Smith ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Monty Kipps Description of subject: Monty Kipps is a conservative, Trinidadian-born academic and Christian intellectual who serves as a central foil to the liberal Belsey family in Zadie Smith’s novel "On Beauty."
Referenced by (6)
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