Roderick Spode
E158652
Roderick Spode is a fictional fascist leader and menacing yet comically absurd antagonist in P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster stories.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Roderick Spode canonical | 13 |
| Roderick Spode, 7th Earl of Sidcup | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1379265 — 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: Roderick Spode Context triple: [The Code of the Woosters, character, Roderick Spode]
-
A.
Samuel Fielden
Samuel Fielden was a British-born American labor activist, socialist, and one of the anarchists controversially convicted in connection with the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago.
-
B.
William Jessop
William Jessop was a prominent 18th-century English civil engineer known for his influential work on canals, docks, and early railways during the Industrial Revolution.
-
C.
Francis Wedgwood
Francis Wedgwood was a 19th-century English pottery manufacturer and member of the prominent Wedgwood family associated with the renowned Wedgwood ceramics firm.
-
D.
Edward Holcroft
Edward Holcroft is a British actor known for his roles in film and television, including appearances in the Kingsman franchise and the series London Spy.
-
E.
Thomas Tooke
Thomas Tooke was a 19th-century British economist and statistician best known for his pioneering work on price history and monetary theory, particularly through his multi-volume "History of Prices."
- 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: Roderick Spode Target entity description: Roderick Spode is a fictional fascist leader and menacing yet comically absurd antagonist in P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster stories.
-
A.
Samuel Fielden
Samuel Fielden was a British-born American labor activist, socialist, and one of the anarchists controversially convicted in connection with the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago.
-
B.
William Jessop
William Jessop was a prominent 18th-century English civil engineer known for his influential work on canals, docks, and early railways during the Industrial Revolution.
-
C.
Francis Wedgwood
Francis Wedgwood was a 19th-century English pottery manufacturer and member of the prominent Wedgwood family associated with the renowned Wedgwood ceramics firm.
-
D.
Edward Holcroft
Edward Holcroft is a British actor known for his roles in film and television, including appearances in the Kingsman franchise and the series London Spy.
-
E.
Thomas Tooke
Thomas Tooke was a 19th-century British economist and statistician best known for his pioneering work on price history and monetary theory, particularly through his multi-volume "History of Prices."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Roderick Spode Description of subject: Roderick Spode is a fictional fascist leader and menacing yet comically absurd antagonist in P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster stories.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Roderick Spode