Housemaster
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Housemaster is a character in Rudyard Kipling’s school stories "Stalky & Co.," serving as one of the authority figures overseeing the mischievous students at the fictional English boarding school.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Housemaster canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11824482 — 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: Housemaster Context triple: [Stalky & Co., notableCharacter, Housemaster]
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A.
Landmeister
A Landmeister was a high-ranking provincial commander of the Teutonic Order, overseeing regional administration and military operations under the Grand Master.
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B.
Master of the Household
The Master of the Household is a senior official in the British Royal Household responsible for overseeing the domestic management and catering arrangements of the royal residences.
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C.
House of Cramm
The House of Cramm is a German noble family historically associated with the aristocracy of the region that produced figures such as Armgard von Cramm.
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D.
Master of the House
"Master of the House" is a comic, satirical song from the musical Les Misérables that introduces the unscrupulous innkeepers Thénardier and his wife.
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E.
The House of the Head
The House of the Head is a horror short story featured in the 2019 anthology film and TV series "Creepshow," centering on a sinister dollhouse haunted by a mysterious severed head.
- 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: Housemaster Target entity description: Housemaster is a character in Rudyard Kipling’s school stories "Stalky & Co.," serving as one of the authority figures overseeing the mischievous students at the fictional English boarding school.
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A.
Landmeister
A Landmeister was a high-ranking provincial commander of the Teutonic Order, overseeing regional administration and military operations under the Grand Master.
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B.
Master of the Household
The Master of the Household is a senior official in the British Royal Household responsible for overseeing the domestic management and catering arrangements of the royal residences.
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C.
House of Cramm
The House of Cramm is a German noble family historically associated with the aristocracy of the region that produced figures such as Armgard von Cramm.
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D.
Master of the House
"Master of the House" is a comic, satirical song from the musical Les Misérables that introduces the unscrupulous innkeepers Thénardier and his wife.
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E.
The House of the Head
The House of the Head is a horror short story featured in the 2019 anthology film and TV series "Creepshow," centering on a sinister dollhouse haunted by a mysterious severed head.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ schoolmaster ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Rudyard Kipling’s school stories
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Stalky & Co. ⓘ |
| associatedWithWorkByAuthor | Rudyard Kipling’s school stories cycle ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting | England ⓘ |
| creator | Rudyard Kipling ⓘ |
| fictionalSchool |
United Services College (fictionalized)
ⓘ
linked to:
United Services College
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| genre |
children’s literature
ⓘ
comic fiction ⓘ school story ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
disciplinarian
ⓘ
foil to the mischievous students ⓘ |
| occupation |
housemaster at a boarding school
ⓘ
teacher ⓘ |
| role | authority figure ⓘ |
| setting | fictional English boarding school ⓘ |
| supervises | students at the boarding school ⓘ |
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: Housemaster Description of subject: Housemaster is a character in Rudyard Kipling’s school stories "Stalky & Co.," serving as one of the authority figures overseeing the mischievous students at the fictional English boarding school.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.