The Monocled Mutineer
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The Monocled Mutineer is a 1986 BBC television drama series about the World War I Étaples mutiny, starring Paul McGann in the title role.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Monocled Mutineer canonical | 8 |
| The Monocled Mutineer (1986 BBC television series) | 1 |
| The Monocled Mutineer (book) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2386355 — 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: The Monocled Mutineer Context triple: [Paul McGann, notableWork, The Monocled Mutineer]
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A.
Ghare-Baire
Ghare-Baire is a 1916 Bengali novel by Rabindranath Tagore that explores nationalism, gender, and personal freedom against the backdrop of the Swadeshi movement in colonial India.
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B.
The Forty-Five Guardsmen
The Forty-Five Guardsmen is a historical adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas that continues his Valois trilogy, dramatizing the intrigues and power struggles in late 16th-century France.
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C.
Billy Budd
Billy Budd is a posthumously published novella by Herman Melville that tells the tragic story of an innocent sailor caught in a moral and legal conflict aboard a British warship.
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D.
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Scarlet Pimpernel is a classic 1905 adventure novel by Baroness Orczy about a mysterious English aristocrat who daringly rescues French nobles from the guillotine during the French Revolution.
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E.
Foyle's War
Foyle's War is a British detective drama series set during and after World War II, following a principled police detective solving crimes on the home front.
- 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: The Monocled Mutineer Target entity description: The Monocled Mutineer is a 1986 BBC television drama series about the World War I Étaples mutiny, starring Paul McGann in the title role.
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A.
Ghare-Baire
Ghare-Baire is a 1916 Bengali novel by Rabindranath Tagore that explores nationalism, gender, and personal freedom against the backdrop of the Swadeshi movement in colonial India.
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B.
The Forty-Five Guardsmen
The Forty-Five Guardsmen is a historical adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas that continues his Valois trilogy, dramatizing the intrigues and power struggles in late 16th-century France.
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C.
Billy Budd
Billy Budd is a posthumously published novella by Herman Melville that tells the tragic story of an innocent sailor caught in a moral and legal conflict aboard a British warship.
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D.
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Scarlet Pimpernel is a classic 1905 adventure novel by Baroness Orczy about a mysterious English aristocrat who daringly rescues French nobles from the guillotine during the French Revolution.
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E.
Foyle's War
Foyle's War is a British detective drama series set during and after World War II, following a principled police detective solving crimes on the home front.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
BBC television drama
ⓘ
television series ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Etaples mutiny
ⓘ
life of Percy Toplis ⓘ |
| broadcastDecade | 1980s ⓘ |
| castMember | Paul McGann ⓘ |
| countryOfBroadcast | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| depictsEvent |
Étaples mutiny
ⓘ
linked to:
Etaples mutiny
|
| director | Jim O'Brien ⓘ |
| executiveProducer | Michael Wearing ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1986 ⓘ |
| format | miniseries ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
historical drama ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalTheme |
British military history
ⓘ
World War I ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
British Army
ⓘ
military mutiny ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 4 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeries | 1 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork |
BBC1
ⓘ
linked to:
BBC One
|
| portrays | Percy Toplis ⓘ |
| producer | BBC ⓘ |
| productionCompany | BBC ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| runningTimePerEpisode | approximately 60 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Alan Bleasdale ⓘ |
| setDuring | World War I ⓘ |
| setIn |
Étaples
ⓘ
linked to:
Étaples, France
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| starred | Paul McGann ⓘ |
| titleCharacter | Percy Toplis ⓘ |
| writer | Alan Bleasdale ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: The Monocled Mutineer Description of subject: The Monocled Mutineer is a 1986 BBC television drama series about the World War I Étaples mutiny, starring Paul McGann in the title role.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Monocled Mutineer
linked to: The Monocled Mutineer