Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best
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"Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best" is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse featuring the absent-minded Earl of Emsworth in one of his misadventures at Blandings Castle.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1287637 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best Context triple: [Blandings Castle series, hasPart, Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best]
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A.
Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend
"Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend" is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse featuring the absent-minded Earl of Emsworth in a romantic tangle at Blandings Castle.
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B.
The Empress of Blandings
The Empress of Blandings is the famously pampered prize pig in P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories, renowned for her comic central role in the series’ plots.
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C.
Lord Emsworth
Lord Emsworth is a dreamy, absent-minded English earl and master of Blandings Castle in P. G. Wodehouse’s comic stories, best known for his love of pigs and aversion to responsibility.
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D.
The Code of the Woosters
The Code of the Woosters is a classic comic novel in P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster series, celebrated for its intricate farce, witty dialogue, and portrayal of upper-class English society.
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E.
Jeeves and the Wedding Bells
Jeeves and the Wedding Bells is a 2013 novel by Sebastian Faulks that continues P. G. Wodehouse’s beloved Jeeves and Wooster series in an authorized pastiche.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best Target entity description: "Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best" is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse featuring the absent-minded Earl of Emsworth in one of his misadventures at Blandings Castle.
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A.
Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend
"Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend" is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse featuring the absent-minded Earl of Emsworth in a romantic tangle at Blandings Castle.
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B.
The Empress of Blandings
The Empress of Blandings is the famously pampered prize pig in P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories, renowned for her comic central role in the series’ plots.
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C.
Lord Emsworth
Lord Emsworth is a dreamy, absent-minded English earl and master of Blandings Castle in P. G. Wodehouse’s comic stories, best known for his love of pigs and aversion to responsibility.
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D.
The Code of the Woosters
The Code of the Woosters is a classic comic novel in P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster series, celebrated for its intricate farce, witty dialogue, and portrayal of upper-class English society.
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E.
Jeeves and the Wedding Bells
Jeeves and the Wedding Bells is a 2013 novel by Sebastian Faulks that continues P. G. Wodehouse’s beloved Jeeves and Wooster series in an authorized pastiche.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
humorous fiction
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short story ⓘ |
| author | P. G. Wodehouse ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | P. G. Wodehouse ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Lord Emsworth
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surface form:
Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth
Lord Emsworth ⓘ |
| featuresSettingType |
English country estate
ⓘ
country house ⓘ |
| featuresSocialClass | British aristocracy ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Blandings Castle series ⓘ |
| genre |
comic fiction
ⓘ
humour ⓘ |
| hasFictionalLocation | Shropshire ⓘ |
| hasHumourType |
character-based humour
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situational comedy ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacterTrait | absent-minded ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
aristocratic life
ⓘ
misunderstandings ⓘ social comedy ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter | Lord Emsworth ⓘ |
| hasWorkType | short fiction ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryStyle | light comic prose ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | misadventures of Lord Emsworth ⓘ |
| partOf |
Blandings Castle series
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surface form:
Blandings Castle stories
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| protagonist | Lord Emsworth ⓘ |
| setting | Blandings Castle ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Subject: Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best Description of subject: "Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best" is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse featuring the absent-minded Earl of Emsworth in one of his misadventures at Blandings Castle.
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