Lord Percy Percy
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Lord Percy Percy is a dim-witted yet well-meaning aristocrat and sidekick in the British historical sitcom "Blackadder."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lord Percy Percy canonical | 4 |
| Lord Percy | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1678142 — 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: Lord Percy Percy Context triple: [Blackadder, character, Lord Percy Percy]
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A.
Sir Edward Dacre
Sir Edward Dacre was an English figure best known as the founder of Emanuel School in London.
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B.
William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington
William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, was a British aristocrat and soldier, heir to the Duke of Devonshire, who was killed in action during World War II.
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C.
Lord Oxford
Lord Oxford is a historical British nobleman and literary patron associated with the early 18th-century Scriblerus Club of satirists and writers.
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D.
Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire
Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire, is a British aristocrat, landowner, and former chairman of Sotheby’s best known for overseeing the preservation and public promotion of the Chatsworth estate.
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E.
Lord Charles Cavendish
Lord Charles Cavendish was an 18th-century British aristocrat and politician best known as the father of renowned scientist Henry Cavendish.
- 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: Lord Percy Percy Target entity description: Lord Percy Percy is a dim-witted yet well-meaning aristocrat and sidekick in the British historical sitcom "Blackadder."
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A.
Sir Edward Dacre
Sir Edward Dacre was an English figure best known as the founder of Emanuel School in London.
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B.
William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington
William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, was a British aristocrat and soldier, heir to the Duke of Devonshire, who was killed in action during World War II.
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C.
Lord Oxford
Lord Oxford is a historical British nobleman and literary patron associated with the early 18th-century Scriblerus Club of satirists and writers.
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D.
Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire
Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire, is a British aristocrat, landowner, and former chairman of Sotheby’s best known for overseeing the preservation and public promotion of the Chatsworth estate.
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E.
Lord Charles Cavendish
Lord Charles Cavendish was an 18th-century British aristocrat and politician best known as the father of renowned scientist Henry Cavendish.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Blackadder ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries |
Blackadder II
ⓘ
linked to:
Blackadder
The Black Adder ⓘ
linked to:
Blackadder
|
| associatedWith | Edmund Blackadder ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
dim-witted
ⓘ
loyal ⓘ well-meaning ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator |
Ben Elton
ⓘ
Richard Curtis ⓘ Rowan Atkinson ⓘ |
| familyName | Percy ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Blackadder universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Blackadder
|
| firstAppearanceInSeries |
The Black Adder
ⓘ
linked to:
Blackadder
|
| fullName | Lord Percy Percy ⓘ |
| genre | historical sitcom character ⓘ |
| givenName | Percy ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
alchemical experiments
ⓘ
comic stupidity ⓘ |
| occupation | aristocrat ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | BBC ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Tim McInnerny ⓘ |
| role | sidekick ⓘ |
| socialClass | nobility ⓘ |
| title | Lord ⓘ |
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: Lord Percy Percy Description of subject: Lord Percy Percy is a dim-witted yet well-meaning aristocrat and sidekick in the British historical sitcom "Blackadder."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.