Rowcester Abbey
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Rowcester Abbey is the dilapidated English country house and ancestral seat of an impoverished earl in P. G. Wodehouse’s novel "Ring for Jeeves."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rowcester Abbey canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7178903 — 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: Rowcester Abbey Context triple: [Ring for Jeeves, hasSetting, Rowcester Abbey]
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Shrewsbury Abbey
Shrewsbury Abbey is a historic former Benedictine monastery in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, renowned for its medieval architecture and literary association with the Brother Cadfael novels.
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B.
Tewkesbury Abbey
Tewkesbury Abbey is a historic former Benedictine monastery and prominent medieval church in Tewkesbury, England, renowned for its Norman architecture and rich religious heritage.
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Sherborne Abbey
Sherborne Abbey is a historic former Benedictine monastery and prominent parish church in Sherborne, Dorset, renowned for its stunning Perpendicular Gothic architecture and magnificent fan-vaulted ceiling.
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D.
Leicester Abbey
Leicester Abbey was a prominent medieval Augustinian monastery in Leicester, England, later dissolved under Henry VIII and remembered as the place where Cardinal Thomas Wolsey died.
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E.
Abingdon Abbey
Abingdon Abbey was a prominent Benedictine monastery in Oxfordshire, England, that became an important religious, cultural, and educational center in the Anglo-Saxon and medieval periods.
- 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: Rowcester Abbey Target entity description: Rowcester Abbey is the dilapidated English country house and ancestral seat of an impoverished earl in P. G. Wodehouse’s novel "Ring for Jeeves."
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A.
Shrewsbury Abbey
Shrewsbury Abbey is a historic former Benedictine monastery in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, renowned for its medieval architecture and literary association with the Brother Cadfael novels.
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B.
Tewkesbury Abbey
Tewkesbury Abbey is a historic former Benedictine monastery and prominent medieval church in Tewkesbury, England, renowned for its Norman architecture and rich religious heritage.
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C.
Sherborne Abbey
Sherborne Abbey is a historic former Benedictine monastery and prominent parish church in Sherborne, Dorset, renowned for its stunning Perpendicular Gothic architecture and magnificent fan-vaulted ceiling.
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D.
Leicester Abbey
Leicester Abbey was a prominent medieval Augustinian monastery in Leicester, England, later dissolved under Henry VIII and remembered as the place where Cardinal Thomas Wolsey died.
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E.
Abingdon Abbey
Abingdon Abbey was a prominent Benedictine monastery in Oxfordshire, England, that became an important religious, cultural, and educational center in the Anglo-Saxon and medieval periods.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancestral home
ⓘ
fictional country house ⓘ fictional location ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Ring for Jeeves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Bill, Earl of Rowcester
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Captain Biggar NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeeves NERFINISHED ⓘ Jill Wyvern NERFINISHED ⓘ Rosie Moke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| creator | P. G. Wodehouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedAs |
English country house
ⓘ
dilapidated ⓘ |
| firstPublicationContext | Ring for Jeeves (1953 novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| function | ancestral seat of an earl ⓘ |
| genreContext | comic novel ⓘ |
| hasFinancialStatus | impoverished owner ⓘ |
| hasThemeConnection |
decline of the English aristocracy
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financial difficulties ⓘ social change after World War II ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryUniverse | Jeeves series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInFictional | Rowcester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | prose fiction ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | central setting ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Bill, Earl of Rowcester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingOf | major parts of the plot of Ring for Jeeves ⓘ |
| usedForPlotDevice |
attempted sale of the house
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greyhound racing scheme ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Rowcester Abbey Description of subject: Rowcester Abbey is the dilapidated English country house and ancestral seat of an impoverished earl in P. G. Wodehouse’s novel "Ring for Jeeves."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.