The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch
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"The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch" is a humorous science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke, set in his fictional White Hart pub and featuring one of the bar’s tall, technically tinged tales.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4805534 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch Context triple: [Tales from the White Hart, containsStory, The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch]
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A.
Bedroom Farce
Bedroom Farce is a comedic stage play by Alan Ayckbourn that humorously explores the tangled relationships of three couples over the course of one chaotic night.
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B.
Peculiar Follies
Peculiar Follies is a section of Charles Mackay’s classic 1841 work "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds," examining bizarre and irrational mass behaviors in history.
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C.
The Cat's-Paw
The Cat's-Paw is a 1934 American comedy film starring Harold Lloyd as a naive missionary’s son unwittingly drawn into small-town political corruption.
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D.
The Broom of the System
The Broom of the System is David Foster Wallace’s debut novel, a postmodern, comic exploration of language, identity, and reality set in a surreal version of Cleveland.
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E.
The Debacle
The Debacle is the English title of Émile Zola’s historical novel depicting the Franco-Prussian War and the fall of the Second French Empire.
- 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 Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch Target entity description: "The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch" is a humorous science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke, set in his fictional White Hart pub and featuring one of the bar’s tall, technically tinged tales.
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A.
Bedroom Farce
Bedroom Farce is a comedic stage play by Alan Ayckbourn that humorously explores the tangled relationships of three couples over the course of one chaotic night.
-
B.
Peculiar Follies
Peculiar Follies is a section of Charles Mackay’s classic 1841 work "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds," examining bizarre and irrational mass behaviors in history.
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C.
The Cat's-Paw
The Cat's-Paw is a 1934 American comedy film starring Harold Lloyd as a naive missionary’s son unwittingly drawn into small-town political corruption.
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D.
The Broom of the System
The Broom of the System is David Foster Wallace’s debut novel, a postmodern, comic exploration of language, identity, and reality set in a surreal version of Cleveland.
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E.
The Debacle
The Debacle is the English title of Émile Zola’s historical novel depicting the Franco-Prussian War and the fall of the Second French Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
humorous fiction work
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science fiction short story ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| author | Arthur C. Clarke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | White Hart series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
humor
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science fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorOccupation | science fiction writer ⓘ |
| hasFictionalLocation | White Hart pub NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasLength | short fiction ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter | Ermintrude Inch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMedium | print ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
exaggeration
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tall tales ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter | Ermintrude Inch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTone | comic ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | frame story ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Tales from the White Hart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | White Hart pub NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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Input
Subject: The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch Description of subject: "The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch" is a humorous science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke, set in his fictional White Hart pub and featuring one of the bar’s tall, technically tinged tales.
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