Reginald Herring
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Reginald Herring is a fictional character from P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves stories, known as one of Bertie Wooster’s amiable but often hapless friends.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Reginald Herring canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7291519 — 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: Reginald Herring Context triple: [Jeeves in the Offing, featuresCharacter, Reginald Herring]
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A.
Reginald Wade
Reginald Wade is a British civil engineer and military officer known for his role in building military roads in the Scottish Highlands in the early 18th century.
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B.
Reginald Little
Reginald Little was one of the children of Louise Little, best known as the mother of civil rights leader Malcolm X.
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C.
Reginald
Reginald is a masculine given name of English origin that has been borne by various notable figures, including military officers, politicians, and artists.
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D.
Malachi Pearson
Malachi Pearson is an American former child actor best known for voicing the title character in the 1995 live-action/animated film "Casper."
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E.
Oscar Diggs
Oscar Diggs is a small-time circus magician and con artist who is swept away to the Land of Oz, where he becomes the legendary Wizard in the film "Oz the Great and Powerful."
- 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: Reginald Herring Target entity description: Reginald Herring is a fictional character from P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves stories, known as one of Bertie Wooster’s amiable but often hapless friends.
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A.
Reginald Wade
Reginald Wade is a British civil engineer and military officer known for his role in building military roads in the Scottish Highlands in the early 18th century.
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B.
Reginald Little
Reginald Little was one of the children of Louise Little, best known as the mother of civil rights leader Malcolm X.
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C.
Reginald
Reginald is a masculine given name of English origin that has been borne by various notable figures, including military officers, politicians, and artists.
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D.
Malachi Pearson
Malachi Pearson is an American former child actor best known for voicing the title character in the 1995 live-action/animated film "Casper."
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E.
Oscar Diggs
Oscar Diggs is a small-time circus magician and con artist who is swept away to the Land of Oz, where he becomes the legendary Wizard in the film "Oz the Great and Powerful."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkBy | P. G. Wodehouse ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Drones Club
ⓘ
linked to:
Drones Club stories
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| characterTrait |
amiable
ⓘ
hapless ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Jeeves stories
ⓘ
linked to:
Jeeves universe
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| genre | comic fiction ⓘ |
| hasFriend | Bertie Wooster ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | British ⓘ |
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
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Reginald Herring Description of subject: Reginald Herring is a fictional character from P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves stories, known as one of Bertie Wooster’s amiable but often hapless friends.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.