Lord Flashheart
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Lord Flashheart is a flamboyant, womanizing, and outrageously self-confident British officer played by Rik Mayall in the historical sitcom series "Blackadder."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lord Flashheart canonical | 1 |
| Lord Flashheart in Blackadder II | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1678147 — 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 Flashheart Context triple: [Blackadder, character, Lord Flashheart]
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A.
Lord Willin'
"Lord Willin'" is the 2002 debut studio album by hip-hop duo Clipse, known for its gritty coke-rap lyricism and Neptunes-produced beats that helped define early-2000s rap.
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B.
Good King Henry
Good King Henry is the popular epithet of Henry IV of France, the first Bourbon king renowned for ending the French Wars of Religion and issuing the Edict of Nantes to promote religious tolerance.
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C.
Dub of Scotland
Dub of Scotland was a 10th-century King of Alba from the House of Alpin, remembered for his brief and turbulent reign marked by internal dynastic conflict.
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D.
The Falcon and the Snowman
The Falcon and the Snowman is a 1985 espionage drama film based on a true story about two young Americans who become spies for the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
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E.
Palooka
Palooka is a 1934 American comedy film based on the popular comic strip about a naive but talented boxer, starring Jimmy Durante and Lupe Vélez.
- 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 Flashheart Target entity description: Lord Flashheart is a flamboyant, womanizing, and outrageously self-confident British officer played by Rik Mayall in the historical sitcom series "Blackadder."
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A.
Lord Willin'
"Lord Willin'" is the 2002 debut studio album by hip-hop duo Clipse, known for its gritty coke-rap lyricism and Neptunes-produced beats that helped define early-2000s rap.
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B.
Good King Henry
Good King Henry is the popular epithet of Henry IV of France, the first Bourbon king renowned for ending the French Wars of Religion and issuing the Edict of Nantes to promote religious tolerance.
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C.
Dub of Scotland
Dub of Scotland was a 10th-century King of Alba from the House of Alpin, remembered for his brief and turbulent reign marked by internal dynastic conflict.
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D.
The Falcon and the Snowman
The Falcon and the Snowman is a 1985 espionage drama film based on a true story about two young Americans who become spies for the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
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E.
Palooka
Palooka is a 1934 American comedy film based on the popular comic strip about a naive but talented boxer, starring Jimmy Durante and Lupe Vélez.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Blackadder
ⓘ
Blackadder Goes Forth ⓘ
linked to:
Blackadder
Blackadder II ⓘ
linked to:
Blackadder
|
| associatedWith |
Edmund Blackadder
ⓘ
Hugh Laurie ⓘ Rowan Atkinson ⓘ Stephen Fry ⓘ |
| catchphrase | Woof! ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
boastful
ⓘ
brash ⓘ macho ⓘ self-confident ⓘ womanizing ⓘ |
| characterType | flamboyant ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Ben Elton
ⓘ
Richard Curtis ⓘ |
| createdFor | BBC television ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Blackadder universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Blackadder
|
| firstAppearance |
Blackadder II episode "Bells"
ⓘ
linked to:
Blackadder
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
historical sitcom ⓘ |
| humorStyle |
innuendo
ⓘ
parody ⓘ slapstick ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
British Army
ⓘ
Royal Flying Corps ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
over-the-top entrances
ⓘ
parody of heroic fighter ace ⓘ womanizing behavior ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Rik Mayall ⓘ |
| productionCompany | BBC ⓘ |
| rank |
Captain
ⓘ
Lord ⓘ Squadron Commander ⓘ |
| settingPeriod |
Elizabethan era
ⓘ
linked to:
Tudor England
World War I ⓘ |
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 Flashheart Description of subject: Lord Flashheart is a flamboyant, womanizing, and outrageously self-confident British officer played by Rik Mayall in the historical sitcom series "Blackadder."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lord Flashheart