Herbert Badgery
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Herbert Badgery is the charismatic, unreliable narrator and central figure of Peter Carey’s novel "Illywhacker," known for his tall tales and self-proclaimed status as a 139-year-old con man.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Herbert Badgery canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20348647 — 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: Herbert Badgery Context triple: [Illywhacker, protagonist, Herbert Badgery]
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A.
Herbert Jenkins
Herbert Jenkins was a British publishing company best known for issuing popular fiction, including many works by P. G. Wodehouse.
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B.
Herbert Jenkins
Herbert Jenkins was a prominent American law enforcement official who served as Atlanta’s long-time police chief and became nationally known for his role in addressing civil rights-era unrest and advising on urban disorder.
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C.
Walter Crickmer
Walter Crickmer was an English football club secretary and manager for Manchester United who was among those who died in the 1958 Munich air disaster.
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D.
Arthur Bannister
Arthur Bannister is a cunning, crippled defense attorney and one of the central, morally ambiguous figures in Orson Welles’s film noir *The Lady from Shanghai*.
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E.
Reginald Noble
Reginald Noble is an American rapper and actor best known by his stage name Redman, a prominent figure in 1990s East Coast hip hop and frequent collaborator with Method Man.
- 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: Herbert Badgery Target entity description: Herbert Badgery is the charismatic, unreliable narrator and central figure of Peter Carey’s novel "Illywhacker," known for his tall tales and self-proclaimed status as a 139-year-old con man.
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A.
Herbert Jenkins
Herbert Jenkins was a prominent American law enforcement official who served as Atlanta’s long-time police chief and became nationally known for his role in addressing civil rights-era unrest and advising on urban disorder.
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B.
Herbert Jenkins
Herbert Jenkins was a British publishing company best known for issuing popular fiction, including many works by P. G. Wodehouse.
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C.
Walter Crickmer
Walter Crickmer was an English football club secretary and manager for Manchester United who was among those who died in the 1958 Munich air disaster.
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D.
Arthur Bannister
Arthur Bannister is a cunning, crippled defense attorney and one of the central, morally ambiguous figures in Orson Welles’s film noir *The Lady from Shanghai*.
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E.
Reginald Noble
Reginald Noble is an American rapper and actor best known by his stage name Redman, a prominent figure in 1990s East Coast hip hop and frequent collaborator with Method Man.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.