Marquess of Marchmain
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The Marquess of Marchmain is a fictional British aristocrat from Evelyn Waugh’s novel "Brideshead Revisited," serving as the estranged patriarch of the Flyte family and symbolizing the decline of the English Catholic nobility.
All labels observed (1)
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| Marquess of Marchmain canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14848303 — 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: Marquess of Marchmain Context triple: [Lord Marchmain, hasTitle, Marquess of Marchmain]
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A.
Marquess of Beuvron
The Marquess of Beuvron is a French noble title historically associated with the prominent aristocratic House of Harcourt.
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B.
Marquess of Alton
The Marquess of Alton is a subsidiary peerage title historically associated with the prominent English statesman and courtier Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury.
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C.
Marquess of Brackley
The Marquess of Brackley is a historic British noble title associated with the Egerton family, notably borne by Francis Egerton, the influential 18th-century canal-building Duke of Bridgewater.
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D.
Marquess of Tavistock
The Marquess of Tavistock is a courtesy title traditionally borne by the heir apparent to the Duke of Bedford in the British peerage.
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E.
Marquess of Bute
The Marquess of Bute is a hereditary Scottish noble title historically associated with great wealth, political influence, and extensive landholdings, particularly on the Isle of Bute.
- 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: Marquess of Marchmain Target entity description: The Marquess of Marchmain is a fictional British aristocrat from Evelyn Waugh’s novel "Brideshead Revisited," serving as the estranged patriarch of the Flyte family and symbolizing the decline of the English Catholic nobility.
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A.
Marquess of Beuvron
The Marquess of Beuvron is a French noble title historically associated with the prominent aristocratic House of Harcourt.
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B.
Marquess of Alton
The Marquess of Alton is a subsidiary peerage title historically associated with the prominent English statesman and courtier Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury.
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C.
Marquess of Brackley
The Marquess of Brackley is a historic British noble title associated with the Egerton family, notably borne by Francis Egerton, the influential 18th-century canal-building Duke of Bridgewater.
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D.
Marquess of Tavistock
The Marquess of Tavistock is a courtesy title traditionally borne by the heir apparent to the Duke of Bedford in the British peerage.
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E.
Marquess of Bute
The Marquess of Bute is a hereditary Scottish noble title historically associated with great wealth, political influence, and extensive landholdings, particularly on the Isle of Bute.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.