Blower Bentley
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Blower Bentley is the famous supercharged racing version of the Bentley 4½ Litre from the late 1920s, renowned for its performance at Le Mans and its iconic status in British motorsport history.
All labels observed (1)
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| Blower Bentley canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Blower Bentley Context triple: [Bentley Blower, nickname, Blower Bentley]
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A.
Blurton
Blurton is a suburban area in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, known primarily as a residential community.
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Beyton
Beyton is a small rural village and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk, known for its traditional village green and historic buildings.
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Blatch
Blatch is the surname of Nora Stanton Blatch, an early 20th-century American civil engineer, suffragist, and women's rights activist.
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D.
Oden Bowie
Oden Bowie was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Maryland and for whom the community of Bowie, Maryland is named.
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E.
Butley
Butley is a 1971 stage play by Simon Gray, best known through Alan Bates’s acclaimed portrayal of its bitter, self-destructive university lecturer protagonist.
- 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: Blower Bentley Target entity description: Blower Bentley is the famous supercharged racing version of the Bentley 4½ Litre from the late 1920s, renowned for its performance at Le Mans and its iconic status in British motorsport history.
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A.
Blurton
Blurton is a suburban area in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, known primarily as a residential community.
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B.
Beyton
Beyton is a small rural village and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk, known for its traditional village green and historic buildings.
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C.
Blatch
Blatch is the surname of Nora Stanton Blatch, an early 20th-century American civil engineer, suffragist, and women's rights activist.
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D.
Oden Bowie
Oden Bowie was a 19th-century American politician who served as governor of Maryland and for whom the community of Bowie, Maryland is named.
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E.
Butley
Butley is a 1971 stage play by Simon Gray, best known through Alan Bates’s acclaimed portrayal of its bitter, self-destructive university lecturer protagonist.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bentley 4½ Litre variant
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racing car ⓘ |
| associatedCircuit | Circuit de la Sarthe ⓘ |
| associatedDriver |
Glen Kidston
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Sir Henry "Tim" Birkin ⓘ Woolf Barnato ⓘ |
| associatedRace |
24 Hours of Le Mans 1930
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linked to:
24 Hours of Le Mans
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| associatedWith | Bentley Boys ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Bentley 4½ Litre
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linked to:
Bentley 4½ Litre Le Mans
|
| bodyStyle |
open two-seater
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racing tourer ⓘ |
| category |
pre-war racing car
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vintage sports car ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| culturalStatus |
British motoring icon
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symbol of British motorsport heritage ⓘ |
| designer |
Walter Owen Bentley
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linked to:
W. O. Bentley
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| engineConfiguration | inline-4 ⓘ |
| engineDisplacement |
4.4 L
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4½ L ⓘ |
| engineer | Amherst Villiers ⓘ |
| era |
early 1930s
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late 1920s ⓘ |
| fuelSystem | carburetted ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | iconic pre-war Bentley ⓘ |
| inductionType | supercharged ⓘ |
| influenced | later Bentley performance image ⓘ |
| layout | front-engine, rear-wheel-drive ⓘ |
| manufacturer |
Bentley Motors Limited
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linked to:
Bentley
|
| motorsportDiscipline |
endurance racing
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sports car racing ⓘ |
| notableEvent | 24 Hours of Le Mans ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
distinctive external blower housing
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front-mounted supercharger ahead of radiator ⓘ large wire-spoke wheels ⓘ long bonnet ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Le Mans competition history
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high performance for its era ⓘ role in British motorsport history ⓘ |
| notablePeriod | interwar period ⓘ |
| powertrain | supercharged 4½-litre inline-four engine ⓘ |
| productionEnd | 1931 ⓘ |
| productionStart | 1929 ⓘ |
| status |
collector car
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historic racing car ⓘ |
| superchargerType | Roots-type supercharger ⓘ |
| vehicleClass |
racing car
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sports car ⓘ |
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Subject: Blower Bentley Description of subject: Blower Bentley is the famous supercharged racing version of the Bentley 4½ Litre from the late 1920s, renowned for its performance at Le Mans and its iconic status in British motorsport history.
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