George McWhirter Fotheringay
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George McWhirter Fotheringay is the ordinary, skeptical clerk in H. G. Wells’s story “The Man Who Could Work Miracles” who suddenly gains unlimited supernatural powers, with chaotic and comic consequences.
All labels observed (1)
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| George McWhirter Fotheringay canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22102159 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: George McWhirter Fotheringay Context triple: [The Man Who Could Work Miracles, character, George McWhirter Fotheringay]
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William Venn Gough
William Venn Gough was a British architect active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his work on prominent public and commemorative buildings.
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B.
William Ruthven
William Ruthven was an Australian soldier and politician best known as a recipient of the Victoria Cross for his bravery during World War I.
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C.
Geoffrey Burgon
Geoffrey Burgon was a British composer best known for his evocative film and television scores, including acclaimed work on series such as "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and "Brideshead Revisited."
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D.
Francis Hargrave
Francis Hargrave was an 18th-century English lawyer and legal scholar best known for his influential arguments against slavery in the landmark Somerset v Stewart case.
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E.
Edward Russell
Edward Russell was a key English naval officer and statesman who helped orchestrate the Glorious Revolution as one of the influential conspirators known as the Immortal Seven.
- 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: George McWhirter Fotheringay Target entity description: George McWhirter Fotheringay is the ordinary, skeptical clerk in H. G. Wells’s story “The Man Who Could Work Miracles” who suddenly gains unlimited supernatural powers, with chaotic and comic consequences.
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A.
William Venn Gough
William Venn Gough was a British architect active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his work on prominent public and commemorative buildings.
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B.
William Ruthven
William Ruthven was an Australian soldier and politician best known as a recipient of the Victoria Cross for his bravery during World War I.
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C.
Geoffrey Burgon
Geoffrey Burgon was a British composer best known for his evocative film and television scores, including acclaimed work on series such as "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and "Brideshead Revisited."
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D.
Francis Hargrave
Francis Hargrave was an 18th-century English lawyer and legal scholar best known for his influential arguments against slavery in the landmark Somerset v Stewart case.
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E.
Edward Russell
Edward Russell was a key English naval officer and statesman who helped orchestrate the Glorious Revolution as one of the influential conspirators known as the Immortal Seven.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.