The Code of the Mulliners
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The Code of the Mulliners is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse featuring one of Mr Mulliner’s comic family anecdotes set in his whimsical fictional universe.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Code of the Mulliners canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1325372 — 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: The Code of the Mulliners Context triple: [Mr Mulliner stories, hasWork, The Code of the Mulliners]
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A.
Molloy
Molloy is a modernist novel by Samuel Beckett that follows two interlinked, often absurd and introspective narratives exploring identity, language, and existential uncertainty.
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B.
The Horse’s Mouth
The Horse’s Mouth is a 1958 British comedy film, based on Joyce Cary’s novel, about an eccentric painter obsessed with his art, featuring a notable performance by Michael Gough.
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C.
The Dyer's Hand
The Dyer's Hand is a collection of essays and lectures by poet W. H. Auden that reflects on poetry, art, and criticism with his characteristic wit and intellectual rigor.
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D.
House of the Book
House of the Book is the former name of the historic Singer House, an iconic early 20th-century Art Nouveau building in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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E.
The Black Windmill
The Black Windmill is a 1974 British spy thriller film directed by Don Siegel and starring Michael Caine as an MI6 agent whose son is kidnapped by arms dealers.
- 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: The Code of the Mulliners Target entity description: The Code of the Mulliners is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse featuring one of Mr Mulliner’s comic family anecdotes set in his whimsical fictional universe.
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A.
Molloy
Molloy is a modernist novel by Samuel Beckett that follows two interlinked, often absurd and introspective narratives exploring identity, language, and existential uncertainty.
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B.
The Horse’s Mouth
The Horse’s Mouth is a 1958 British comedy film, based on Joyce Cary’s novel, about an eccentric painter obsessed with his art, featuring a notable performance by Michael Gough.
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C.
The Dyer's Hand
The Dyer's Hand is a collection of essays and lectures by poet W. H. Auden that reflects on poetry, art, and criticism with his characteristic wit and intellectual rigor.
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D.
House of the Book
House of the Book is the former name of the historic Singer House, an iconic early 20th-century Art Nouveau building in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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E.
The Black Windmill
The Black Windmill is a 1974 British spy thriller film directed by Don Siegel and starring Michael Caine as an MI6 agent whose son is kidnapped by arms dealers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
humorous fiction work
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short story ⓘ |
| author | P. G. Wodehouse ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Mr Mulliner stories
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surface form:
Mr Mulliner
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| fictionalUniverse | P. G. Wodehouse universe ⓘ |
| genre |
comic fiction
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humour ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType |
eccentric relatives
ⓘ
members of the Mulliner family ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasHumourType |
character-based humour
ⓘ
situational comedy ⓘ verbal wit ⓘ |
| hasLength | short story length ⓘ |
| hasMainTheme |
family anecdotes
ⓘ
romantic entanglements ⓘ social satire ⓘ |
| hasNarrator |
Mr Mulliner stories
ⓘ
surface form:
Mr Mulliner
|
| hasSubjectMatter |
codes of behaviour
ⓘ
family traditions ⓘ romantic relationships ⓘ |
| hasTone |
light-hearted
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satirical ⓘ whimsical ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | 20th-century British comic literature ⓘ |
| literaryStyle | light comic prose ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | frame narrative ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Mr Mulliner stories ⓘ |
| setting | fictional English upper-class milieu ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Code of the Mulliners Description of subject: The Code of the Mulliners is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse featuring one of Mr Mulliner’s comic family anecdotes set in his whimsical fictional universe.
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