The Importance of Being Earnest
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The Importance of Being Earnest is a celebrated late-Victorian comedic play by Oscar Wilde that satirizes social conventions, identity, and marriage through witty dialogue and farcical situations.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Importance of Being Earnest Context triple: [Oscar Wilde, notableWork, The Importance of Being Earnest]
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Jeeves in the Offing
"Jeeves in the Offing" is a comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse featuring the unflappable valet Jeeves and his hapless employer Bertie Wooster in another tangle of romantic and social misadventures.
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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.
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C.
The Inimitable Jeeves
The Inimitable Jeeves is a collection of humorous short stories by P. G. Wodehouse featuring the resourceful valet Jeeves and his affable but hapless employer Bertie Wooster.
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D.
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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E.
Right Ho, Jeeves
"Right Ho, Jeeves" is a comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse featuring the bumbling Bertie Wooster and his unflappable valet Jeeves in a series of farcical social misadventures.
- 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: The Importance of Being Earnest Target entity description: The Importance of Being Earnest is a celebrated late-Victorian comedic play by Oscar Wilde that satirizes social conventions, identity, and marriage through witty dialogue and farcical situations.
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A.
Jeeves in the Offing
"Jeeves in the Offing" is a comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse featuring the unflappable valet Jeeves and his hapless employer Bertie Wooster in another tangle of romantic and social misadventures.
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B.
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.
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C.
The Inimitable Jeeves
The Inimitable Jeeves is a collection of humorous short stories by P. G. Wodehouse featuring the resourceful valet Jeeves and his affable but hapless employer Bertie Wooster.
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D.
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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E.
Right Ho, Jeeves
"Right Ho, Jeeves" is a comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse featuring the bumbling Bertie Wooster and his unflappable valet Jeeves in a series of farcical social misadventures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
farce
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play ⓘ satirical play ⓘ stage comedy ⓘ |
| author | Oscar Wilde ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | frequently performed in English-speaking theatre ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
duality and double lives
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hypocrisy of the upper class ⓘ identity ⓘ marriage ⓘ social conventions ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dramaticForm | dialogue-driven ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceDate | 1895-02-14 ⓘ |
| firstPerformancePlace |
St James's Theatre
ⓘ
surface form:
St James's Theatre, London
|
| firstPublisher | Leonard Smithers ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy of manners
ⓘ
farce ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
The Importance of Being Earnest
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
The Importance of Being Earnest (1952 film)
The Importance of Being Earnest self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The Importance of Being Earnest (2002 film)
multiple radio adaptations ⓘ multiple television adaptations ⓘ |
| includedIn | Oscar Wilde's dramatic works canon ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Victorian literature ⓘ |
| literarySignificance |
considered Oscar Wilde's masterpiece
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major work of English-language comic drama ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Algernon Moncrieff
ⓘ
Cecily Cardew ⓘ Gwendolen Fairfax ⓘ Jack Worthing ⓘ Lady Bracknell ⓘ Miss Prism ⓘ Rev. Canon Chasuble ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
epigrams
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use of mistaken identity ⓘ witty dialogue ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotDevice | invention of fictitious person "Ernest" ⓘ |
| protagonistAlias | Ernest ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1899 ⓘ |
| revisedStructure | three acts reduced to two acts in some versions ⓘ |
| setting |
Hertfordshire (fictionalized English countryside)
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surface form:
Hertfordshire countryside
London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
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| structure | three-act play ⓘ |
| targetOfSatire |
Victorian morality
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aristocratic values ⓘ conventional views of marriage ⓘ obsession with respectability ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late Victorian era ⓘ |
| tone |
ironic
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light-hearted ⓘ |
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this entity surface form:
The Importance of Being Earnest (1952 film)