Mr. Pinchwife
E863447
Mr. Pinchwife is a jealous, possessive husband in William Wycherley’s Restoration comedy "The Country Wife," known for his attempts to control his young wife and prevent her exposure to urban corruption.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mr. Pinchwife canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10452898 — 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: Mr. Pinchwife Context triple: [The Country Wife, mainCharacter, Mr. Pinchwife]
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A.
Silas Lapham
Silas Lapham is a self-made American paint magnate whose moral and social struggles in Gilded Age Boston form the center of William Dean Howells’s realist novel.
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B.
Tertius Lydgate
Tertius Lydgate is an idealistic young doctor in George Eliot’s novel "Middlemarch," whose progressive medical ambitions and troubled marriage drive much of the book’s social and psychological drama.
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C.
Thomas Buddenbrook
Thomas Buddenbrook is the ambitious yet increasingly disillusioned head of a wealthy merchant family in Thomas Mann’s novel "Buddenbrooks," whose life reflects the decline of his bourgeois dynasty.
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D.
Winthrop Paroo
Winthrop Paroo is the shy, lisping young boy in Meredith Willson’s musical "The Music Man," whose transformation and newfound confidence symbolize the positive impact of Professor Harold Hill on the town.
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E.
Fanny Peabody
Fanny Peabody was the wife of American Episcopal priest and Groton School founder Endicott Peabody and a prominent figure in the school’s early community life.
- 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: Mr. Pinchwife Target entity description: Mr. Pinchwife is a jealous, possessive husband in William Wycherley’s Restoration comedy "The Country Wife," known for his attempts to control his young wife and prevent her exposure to urban corruption.
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A.
Silas Lapham
Silas Lapham is a self-made American paint magnate whose moral and social struggles in Gilded Age Boston form the center of William Dean Howells’s realist novel.
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B.
Tertius Lydgate
Tertius Lydgate is an idealistic young doctor in George Eliot’s novel "Middlemarch," whose progressive medical ambitions and troubled marriage drive much of the book’s social and psychological drama.
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C.
Thomas Buddenbrook
Thomas Buddenbrook is the ambitious yet increasingly disillusioned head of a wealthy merchant family in Thomas Mann’s novel "Buddenbrooks," whose life reflects the decline of his bourgeois dynasty.
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D.
Winthrop Paroo
Winthrop Paroo is the shy, lisping young boy in Meredith Willson’s musical "The Music Man," whose transformation and newfound confidence symbolize the positive impact of Professor Harold Hill on the town.
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E.
Fanny Peabody
Fanny Peabody was the wife of American Episcopal priest and Groton School founder Endicott Peabody and a prominent figure in the school’s early community life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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jealous husband archetype ⓘ stage character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Country Wife NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInAct |
Act I of The Country Wife
NERFINISHED
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Act II of The Country Wife NERFINISHED ⓘ Act III of The Country Wife NERFINISHED ⓘ Act IV of The Country Wife NERFINISHED ⓘ Act V of The Country Wife NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | Restoration comedy ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
country versus city values
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honor and reputation ⓘ marital control ⓘ sexual hypocrisy ⓘ |
| contrastsWith |
Harcourt
NERFINISHED
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Horner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | William Wycherley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dramaticFunction |
comic butt
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satire of marital jealousy ⓘ vehicle for social criticism of marriage ⓘ |
| fears |
cuckoldry
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his wife’s infidelity ⓘ urban corruption ⓘ |
| firstPerformedInWork | 1675 production of The Country Wife ⓘ |
| genderRole | husband ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
anxious about honor
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controlling ⓘ insecure ⓘ jealous ⓘ misogynistic ⓘ patriarchal ⓘ possessive ⓘ suspicious ⓘ |
| languageOfExpression | English NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Restoration literature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| marriedTo | Margery Pinchwife NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | English ⓘ |
| occupationInFiction | country gentleman ⓘ |
| relatedByMarriageTo | Alithea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relationshipTo | brother-in-law to Alithea ⓘ |
| residesInFiction | the country ⓘ |
| spouseAgeDifference | older husband with younger wife ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
anxious patriarchal control
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country suspicion of the city ⓘ male sexual jealousy ⓘ |
| triesToControl | Margery Pinchwife NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| triesToPrevent | Margery Pinchwife’s exposure to London society ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Mr. Pinchwife Description of subject: Mr. Pinchwife is a jealous, possessive husband in William Wycherley’s Restoration comedy "The Country Wife," known for his attempts to control his young wife and prevent her exposure to urban corruption.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Country Wife