Lady Windermere’s Fan
E180413
Lady Windermere’s Fan is a comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde that satirizes Victorian high society through witty dialogue and a plot centered on scandal, morality, and mistaken identity.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lady Windermere’s Fan canonical | 3 |
| Lady Windermere's Fan | 2 |
| Lady Windermere | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1579063 — 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: Lady Windermere’s Fan Context triple: [Oscar Wilde, notableWork, Lady Windermere’s Fan]
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A.
The Importance of Being Earnest
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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B.
A Woman of No Importance
A Woman of No Importance is an 1893 social comedy play by Oscar Wilde that satirizes Victorian upper-class morality and gender double standards.
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C.
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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D.
The Paradine Case
The Paradine Case is a 1947 courtroom drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, in which Gregory Peck plays a defense attorney entangled in a complex murder trial involving a beautiful widow.
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E.
Extricating Young Gussie
"Extricating Young Gussie" is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse that marks the debut of his iconic valet character, Jeeves.
- 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: Lady Windermere’s Fan Target entity description: Lady Windermere’s Fan is a comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde that satirizes Victorian high society through witty dialogue and a plot centered on scandal, morality, and mistaken identity.
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A.
The Importance of Being Earnest
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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B.
A Woman of No Importance
A Woman of No Importance is an 1893 social comedy play by Oscar Wilde that satirizes Victorian upper-class morality and gender double standards.
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C.
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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D.
The Paradine Case
The Paradine Case is a 1947 courtroom drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, in which Gregory Peck plays a defense attorney entangled in a complex murder trial involving a beautiful widow.
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E.
Extricating Young Gussie
"Extricating Young Gussie" is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse that marks the debut of his iconic valet character, Jeeves.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedy
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drawing-room comedy ⓘ social satire ⓘ stage play ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
radio plays
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silent films ⓘ sound films ⓘ television productions ⓘ |
| author | Oscar Wilde ⓘ |
| centralPlotDevice | misplaced fan ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dramaticForm | well-made play ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Duchess of Berwick
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Lady Windermere’s Fan self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Lady Windermere
Lord Darlington ⓘ Lord Windermere ⓘ Mrs Erlynne ⓘ |
| featuresProp | fan ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceDate | 1892-02-20 ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy of manners
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melodrama ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| hasFamousLine | We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ⓘ |
| influenced | later comedies of manners ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Aestheticism
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Decadentism ⓘ
surface form:
Decadent movement
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| mainTheme |
Victorian morality
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forgiveness ⓘ hypocrisy ⓘ marriage ⓘ motherhood ⓘ reputation ⓘ scandal ⓘ |
| notableFor |
critique of Victorian social codes
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epigrammatic dialogue ⓘ |
| numberOfActs | 4 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Oscar Wilde’s major society comedies ⓘ |
| premiereLocation |
St James's Theatre
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surface form:
St James’s Theatre, London
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| producerAtPremiere | George Alexander ⓘ |
| setting |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| settingPeriod | late Victorian era ⓘ |
| structure | four-act comedy of manners ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
Victorian high society
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sexual double standards ⓘ social convention ⓘ |
| tone |
satirical
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witty ⓘ |
| writer | Oscar Wilde ⓘ |
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Subject: Lady Windermere’s Fan Description of subject: Lady Windermere’s Fan is a comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde that satirizes Victorian high society through witty dialogue and a plot centered on scandal, morality, and mistaken identity.
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Lady Windermere's Fan
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