Lord Darlington
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Lord Darlington is a charming, witty aristocrat in Oscar Wilde’s play "Lady Windermere’s Fan," whose flirtatious behavior and ambiguous morality help drive the drama’s central conflict about reputation and virtue.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lord Darlington canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7800338 — 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: Lord Darlington Context triple: [Lady Windermere’s Fan, featuresCharacter, Lord Darlington]
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Lord Darlington
Lord Darlington is an aristocratic English nobleman best known as the pre–World War II owner of Darlington Hall in Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel "The Remains of the Day," whose misguided political sympathies and moral failings drive much of the story’s tragedy.
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Lord Danvers
Lord Danvers is a fictional nobleman appearing as a character in William Godwin’s novel "Cloudesley."
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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.
Sir Hubert Worthington
Sir Hubert Worthington was a British architect noted for his work on war memorials and public buildings, including significant commissions for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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E.
Viscount Brackley
Viscount Brackley is a hereditary noble title in the Peerage of England historically associated with the prominent Egerton family.
- 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: Lord Darlington Target entity description: Lord Darlington is a charming, witty aristocrat in Oscar Wilde’s play "Lady Windermere’s Fan," whose flirtatious behavior and ambiguous morality help drive the drama’s central conflict about reputation and virtue.
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A.
Lord Darlington
Lord Darlington is an aristocratic English nobleman best known as the pre–World War II owner of Darlington Hall in Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel "The Remains of the Day," whose misguided political sympathies and moral failings drive much of the story’s tragedy.
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B.
Lord Danvers
Lord Danvers is a fictional nobleman appearing as a character in William Godwin’s novel "Cloudesley."
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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.
Sir Hubert Worthington
Sir Hubert Worthington was a British architect noted for his work on war memorials and public buildings, including significant commissions for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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E.
Viscount Brackley
Viscount Brackley is a hereditary noble title in the Peerage of England historically associated with the prominent Egerton family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aristocrat
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fictional character ⓘ stage character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Lady Windermere’s Fan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | comedy of manners ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | play ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
appearance versus reality
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hypocrisy in high society ⓘ marital fidelity ⓘ social reputation ⓘ |
| centralTo |
conflict about reputation
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conflict about virtue ⓘ |
| createdBy | Oscar Wilde NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| drives | central conflict of Lady Windermere’s Fan ⓘ |
| firstPerformedInWork | Lady Windermere’s Fan, 1892 ⓘ |
| hasLoveInterest | Lady Windermere NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNationality | British ⓘ |
| hasSocialClass | upper class ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Lord ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
charming
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cynical ⓘ flirtatious ⓘ morally ambiguous ⓘ romantic ⓘ witty ⓘ |
| languageOfDialogue | English ⓘ |
| offers | elopement to Lady Windermere ⓘ |
| proposesTo | Lady Windermere NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | London high society ⓘ |
| speaksStyle | epigrammatic dialogue ⓘ |
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: Lord Darlington Description of subject: Lord Darlington is a charming, witty aristocrat in Oscar Wilde’s play "Lady Windermere’s Fan," whose flirtatious behavior and ambiguous morality help drive the drama’s central conflict about reputation and virtue.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.