Flashman
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Flashman is a notorious school bully from Victorian-era fiction who later became the roguish antihero of George MacDonald Fraser’s historical Flashman novels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flashman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11824711 — 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: Flashman Context triple: [Tom Brown's Schooldays, mainCharacter, Flashman]
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A.
Lord Chumley
Lord Chumley is a late 19th-century stage play co-written by Henry George de Mille that gained popularity in American theatre of its era.
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B.
Sir Plume
Sir Plume is a foppish, vain beau in Alexander Pope’s mock-epic poem "The Rape of the Lock," notable for his affected manners and comic ineffectuality.
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C.
Lord Orville
Lord Orville is the courteous, honorable nobleman who serves as Evelina’s primary love interest and moral ideal in Fanny Burney’s novel "Evelina."
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D.
Sir Harry
Sir Harry is a chivalrous yet comically earnest knight and suitor in the musical comedy "Once Upon a Mattress."
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E.
Lord Crumb
Lord Crumb is the grotesque alien leader and primary antagonist in Peter Jackson’s splatter-comedy film "Bad Taste."
- 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: Flashman Target entity description: Flashman is a notorious school bully from Victorian-era fiction who later became the roguish antihero of George MacDonald Fraser’s historical Flashman novels.
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A.
Lord Chumley
Lord Chumley is a late 19th-century stage play co-written by Henry George de Mille that gained popularity in American theatre of its era.
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B.
Sir Plume
Sir Plume is a foppish, vain beau in Alexander Pope’s mock-epic poem "The Rape of the Lock," notable for his affected manners and comic ineffectuality.
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C.
Lord Orville
Lord Orville is the courteous, honorable nobleman who serves as Evelina’s primary love interest and moral ideal in Fanny Burney’s novel "Evelina."
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D.
Sir Harry
Sir Harry is a chivalrous yet comically earnest knight and suitor in the musical comedy "Once Upon a Mattress."
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E.
Lord Crumb
Lord Crumb is the grotesque alien leader and primary antagonist in Peter Jackson’s splatter-comedy film "Bad Taste."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antihero
ⓘ
bully ⓘ fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| adaptedBy | George MacDonald Fraser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| allegiance | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| basedOn | Flashman from Tom Brown’s Schooldays ⓘ |
| characterOrigin | Tom Brown’s Schooldays NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
bullying
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cowardly ⓘ cynical ⓘ lecherous ⓘ physically brave when cornered ⓘ self-serving ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy |
George MacDonald Fraser
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Thomas Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| education | Rugby School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Flashman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Flashman series
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tom Brown stories ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Tom Brown’s Schooldays NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1857 ⓘ |
| fullName | Harry Paget Flashman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
comic novel
ⓘ
historical fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Harry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| literaryArchetype |
picaresque hero
ⓘ
roguish adventurer ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
protagonist
ⓘ
unreliable narrator ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a notorious school bully
ⓘ
surviving major 19th-century historical events through luck and deceit ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Flash for Freedom!
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Flashman NERFINISHED ⓘ Flashman and the Dragon NERFINISHED ⓘ Flashman and the Redskins NERFINISHED ⓘ Flashman at the Charge NERFINISHED ⓘ Flashman in the Great Game NERFINISHED ⓘ Flashman on the March NERFINISHED ⓘ Royal Flash NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | British Army officer ⓘ |
| rank | officer ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | Victorian era 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: Flashman Description of subject: Flashman is a notorious school bully from Victorian-era fiction who later became the roguish antihero of George MacDonald Fraser’s historical Flashman novels.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.