Mr. Bennet – Benjamin Whitrow
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Benjamin Whitrow’s Mr. Bennet is the dryly witty, long-suffering patriarch of the Bennet family in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
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Target entity: Mr. Bennet – Benjamin Whitrow Context triple: [Pride and Prejudice (1995 TV series), characterPortrayedBy, Mr. Bennet – Benjamin Whitrow]
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Bertie Wooster
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Sir Charles Middleton
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Mr. Bennet – Benjamin Whitrow Target entity description: Benjamin Whitrow’s Mr. Bennet is the dryly witty, long-suffering patriarch of the Bennet family in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
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A.
Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones’s Diary
Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones’s Diary is the reserved, principled barrister who serves as Bridget’s complicated love interest and a modern reimagining of Jane Austen’s Mr. Darcy.
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B.
Lord Emsworth
Lord Emsworth is a dreamy, absent-minded English earl and master of Blandings Castle in P. G. Wodehouse’s comic stories, best known for his love of pigs and aversion to responsibility.
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C.
Sir George Treby
Sir George Treby was a British politician and public official who rose to prominence in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, notably serving in senior governmental and naval administrative roles.
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D.
Bertie Wooster
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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E.
Sir Charles Middleton
Sir Charles Middleton was an 18th-century British naval officer and administrator who became a key reformer of the Royal Navy and later served as First Lord of the Admiralty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character portrayal
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television character ⓘ |
| adaptationOf |
Pride and Prejudice
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surface form:
Pride and Prejudice (novel)
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| appearsIn |
Pride and Prejudice (1995 TV series)
ⓘ
Pride and Prejudice (1995 TV series) ⓘ
surface form:
Pride and Prejudice (BBC, 1995)
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| basedOn |
Mr. Bennet – Benjamin Whitrow
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Mr. Bennet (Jane Austen character)
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| castingType | supporting role ⓘ |
| child |
Catherine “Kitty” Bennet (1995 TV series character)
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Elizabeth Bennet – Jennifer Ehle ⓘ
surface form:
Elizabeth Bennet (1995 TV series character)
Jane Bennet – Susannah Harker ⓘ
surface form:
Jane Bennet (1995 TV series character)
Lydia Bennet – Julia Sawalha ⓘ
surface form:
Lydia Bennet (1995 TV series character)
Mary Bennet (1995 TV series character) ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence | England ⓘ |
| familyName |
Lydia Bennet
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surface form:
Bennet
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| fandom | Pride and Prejudice (1995) fandom ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Episode 1 (Pride and Prejudice, 1995) ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | period drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Mr. ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfDaughters | 5 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | British ⓘ |
| network | BBC ⓘ |
| notableQuoteTrait | deadpan delivery ⓘ |
| notableSceneWith |
Elizabeth Bennet – Jennifer Ehle
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surface form:
Elizabeth Bennet (Jennifer Ehle)
Mr. Collins – David Bamber ⓘ
surface form:
Mr. Collins (1995 TV series character)
Fitzwilliam Darcy ⓘ
surface form:
Mr. Darcy (Colin Firth)
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| notableTrait |
aversion to social pretension
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detached parenting style ⓘ dry wit ⓘ fondness for Elizabeth Bennet ⓘ long-suffering nature ⓘ sarcastic humour ⓘ |
| occupation | landed gentleman ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Benjamin Whitrow ⓘ |
| primaryLocationInSeries | Hertfordshire ⓘ |
| primaryThemeAssociation | marriage and family dynamics ⓘ |
| productionCompany | BBC ⓘ |
| residence | Longbourn ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | Regency era ⓘ |
| socialClass | gentry ⓘ |
| sourceWorkAuthor | Jane Austen ⓘ |
| spouse |
Mrs. Bennet – Alison Steadman
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surface form:
Mrs. Bennet (1995 TV series character)
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| spousePortrayedBy | Alison Steadman ⓘ |
| yearOfFirstBroadcast | 1995 ⓘ |
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Subject: Mr. Bennet – Benjamin Whitrow Description of subject: Benjamin Whitrow’s Mr. Bennet is the dryly witty, long-suffering patriarch of the Bennet family in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
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