Digby Geste
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Digby Geste is a fictional character from P.C. Wren’s adventure novel "Beau Geste," known as one of the Geste brothers who serve in the French Foreign Legion.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Digby Geste canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5163784 — 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: Digby Geste Context triple: [Beau Geste, mainCharacter, Digby Geste]
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A.
Figan
Figan is an individual known primarily through their familial relationship as the child of Flo.
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B.
Flynt
Flynt is the middle name of William Flynt Nichols, an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Alabama.
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C.
Nathan Barley
Nathan Barley is a British satirical television series created by Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris that lampoons early-2000s hipster and media culture through its eponymous, self-obsessed antihero.
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D.
Gypsy Dave
Gypsy Dave was a close friend, collaborator, and traveling companion of Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan, often associated with the 1960s folk scene.
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E.
Garth
Garth is a novel by American writer Julian Hawthorne, known as one of his more prominent works of fiction in the late 19th century.
- 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: Digby Geste Target entity description: Digby Geste is a fictional character from P.C. Wren’s adventure novel "Beau Geste," known as one of the Geste brothers who serve in the French Foreign Legion.
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A.
Figan
Figan is an individual known primarily through their familial relationship as the child of Flo.
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B.
Flynt
Flynt is the middle name of William Flynt Nichols, an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Alabama.
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C.
Nathan Barley
Nathan Barley is a British satirical television series created by Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris that lampoons early-2000s hipster and media culture through its eponymous, self-obsessed antihero.
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D.
Gypsy Dave
Gypsy Dave was a close friend, collaborator, and traveling companion of Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan, often associated with the 1960s folk scene.
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E.
Garth
Garth is a novel by American writer Julian Hawthorne, known as one of his more prominent works of fiction in the late 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Beau Geste
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Beau Ideal NERFINISHED ⓘ Beau Sabreur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Fort Zinderneuf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
brotherhood
ⓘ
honor ⓘ sacrifice ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | Beau Geste (1924 novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterRole | supporting protagonist ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
courageous
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humorous ⓘ loyal ⓘ |
| countryOfService | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator | P. C. Wren NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Geste NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Beau Geste series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | adventure fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Beau Geste (1926 film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Beau Geste (1939 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Beau Geste (1966 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFriend |
Buddy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hank NERFINISHED ⓘ Major de Beaujolais NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasNationality | British (fictional) ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | soldier ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Aunt Patricia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lady Brandon NERFINISHED ⓘ Sir Hector Brandon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSibling |
Beau Geste
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Geste NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | military adventure ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| memberOf | Geste family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeEra | early 20th century ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation |
French North Africa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sahara Desert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalPublicationAuthor | P. C. Wren NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalPublicationCountry | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalPublicationLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Beau Geste trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Guy Stockwell
NERFINISHED
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Ralph Forbes NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Preston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesIn | French Foreign Legion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Digby Geste Description of subject: Digby Geste is a fictional character from P.C. Wren’s adventure novel "Beau Geste," known as one of the Geste brothers who serve in the French Foreign Legion.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.