Bertie Wooster
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Bertie Wooster is a wealthy, amiable, and somewhat dim-witted young English gentleman best known as the hapless master of the supremely competent valet Jeeves in P. G. Wodehouse’s comic stories.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bertie Wooster canonical | 113 |
| Bertram Wilberforce Wooster | 2 |
| Bertie Wooster and Bingo Little | 1 |
| Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves | 1 |
| Ernest Worthing | 1 |
| Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T216188 — 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: Bertie Wooster Context triple: [P. G. Wodehouse, notableCharacterCreated, Bertie Wooster]
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Jeeves
Jeeves is the famously unflappable and supremely competent valet who serves as the central comic foil and problem-solver in P. G. Wodehouse’s stories about Bertie Wooster.
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B.
Phineas Finn
Phineas Finn is a political novel by Anthony Trollope that follows the career and personal struggles of an ambitious young Irishman in Victorian British Parliament.
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Bertram Ramsay
Bertram Ramsay was a British admiral who played a key role in planning and directing major Allied naval operations during World War II, including the Dunkirk evacuation and the D-Day landings.
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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.
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E.
Lord Barham
Lord Barham was a British naval commander and statesman of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for his leadership and administrative reforms in the Royal Navy.
- 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: Bertie Wooster Target entity description: Bertie Wooster is a wealthy, amiable, and somewhat dim-witted young English gentleman best known as the hapless master of the supremely competent valet Jeeves in P. G. Wodehouse’s comic stories.
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A.
Jeeves
Jeeves is the famously unflappable and supremely competent valet who serves as the central comic foil and problem-solver in P. G. Wodehouse’s stories about Bertie Wooster.
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B.
Phineas Finn
Phineas Finn is a political novel by Anthony Trollope that follows the career and personal struggles of an ambitious young Irishman in Victorian British Parliament.
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C.
Bertram Ramsay
Bertram Ramsay was a British admiral who played a key role in planning and directing major Allied naval operations during World War II, including the Dunkirk evacuation and the D-Day landings.
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D.
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.
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E.
Lord Barham
Lord Barham was a British naval commander and statesman of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for his leadership and administrative reforms in the Royal Navy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Bertie Wooster Description of subject: Bertie Wooster is a wealthy, amiable, and somewhat dim-witted young English gentleman best known as the hapless master of the supremely competent valet Jeeves in P. G. Wodehouse’s comic stories.
Referenced by (119)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
P. G. Wodehouse
this entity surface form:
Bertram Wilberforce Wooster
subject surface form:
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
this entity surface form:
Ernest Worthing