W. Somerset Maugham
E159432
W. Somerset Maugham was a prominent 20th-century British playwright, novelist, and short story writer known for works such as "Of Human Bondage" and "The Razor's Edge."
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| W. Somerset Maugham canonical | 18 |
| Maugham | 1 |
| Somerset Maugham | 1 |
| W. Somerset Maugham (as character) | 1 |
| W. Somerset Maugham (character) | 1 |
| W. Somerset Maugham (narrator) | 1 |
| William Somerset Maugham | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1393083 — 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: W. Somerset Maugham Context triple: [William Heinemann, notableAuthorPublished, W. Somerset Maugham]
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E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster was an English novelist, essayist, and critic best known for works such as "A Passage to India," "Howards End," and "A Room with a View," which explore class, culture, and human connection.
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Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett was a prominent English novelist and playwright best known for his realistic depictions of provincial life in the Potteries during the early 20th century.
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C.
Ada Galsworthy
Ada Galsworthy was the wife of English novelist and Nobel laureate John Galsworthy, known primarily for her role in his personal life and as an influence on his literary work.
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D.
John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright best known for his series of novels collectively titled "The Forsyte Saga," which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.
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E.
P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse was an English author celebrated for his witty, farcical comic novels and stories, particularly those featuring Jeeves and Wooster.
- 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: W. Somerset Maugham Target entity description: W. Somerset Maugham was a prominent 20th-century British playwright, novelist, and short story writer known for works such as "Of Human Bondage" and "The Razor's Edge."
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A.
E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster was an English novelist, essayist, and critic best known for works such as "A Passage to India," "Howards End," and "A Room with a View," which explore class, culture, and human connection.
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B.
Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett was a prominent English novelist and playwright best known for his realistic depictions of provincial life in the Potteries during the early 20th century.
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C.
Ada Galsworthy
Ada Galsworthy was the wife of English novelist and Nobel laureate John Galsworthy, known primarily for her role in his personal life and as an influence on his literary work.
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D.
John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright best known for his series of novels collectively titled "The Forsyte Saga," which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.
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E.
P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse was an English author celebrated for his witty, farcical comic novels and stories, particularly those featuring Jeeves and Wooster.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: W. Somerset Maugham Description of subject: W. Somerset Maugham was a prominent 20th-century British playwright, novelist, and short story writer known for works such as "Of Human Bondage" and "The Razor's Edge."
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Razor's Edge (1946 film)
subject surface form:
The Razor's Edge (1946 film)
this entity surface form:
W. Somerset Maugham (character)
subject surface form:
The Painted Veil (novel)
subject surface form:
The Letter (1940 film)
this entity surface form:
Somerset Maugham
this entity surface form:
William Somerset Maugham
this entity surface form:
Maugham
this entity surface form:
W. Somerset Maugham (narrator)
this entity surface form:
W. Somerset Maugham (as character)
subject surface form:
Of Human Bondage (1946 film)
subject surface form:
The Painted Veil (novel)
subject surface form:
The Seventh Sin