Blandings Castle series

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comic fiction series literary work series

The Blandings Castle series is a collection of comic novels and stories by P. G. Wodehouse centered on the amiably absent-minded Lord Emsworth, his eccentric family, and the idyllic Shropshire estate of Blandings Castle.

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Label	Occurrences
Blandings Castle stories	34
Blandings Castle universe	19
Blandings Castle series canonical	13
Blandings Castle novels	2
Blandings Castle (short story collection)	1
Blandings Castle and Elsewhere	1
Blandings Castle saga	1

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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T216166 — 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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Target entity: Blandings Castle series
Context triple: [P. G. Wodehouse, notableWork, Blandings Castle series]

A. The Winslow Boy
The Winslow Boy is a 1946 stage play by Terence Rattigan that dramatizes a real Edwardian-era legal case in which a family sacrifices everything to clear their young son’s name.
B. Barchester Towers
Barchester Towers is an 1857 Victorian novel by Anthony Trollope that satirically portrays clerical politics and social maneuvering in the fictional English cathedral town of Barchester.
C. Palliser series
The Palliser series is a sequence of Victorian political novels by Anthony Trollope that follows the lives and careers of the aristocratic Palliser family within British high society and Parliament.
D. Chronicles of Barsetshire
Chronicles of Barsetshire is Anthony Trollope’s celebrated series of Victorian novels set in the fictional English county of Barsetshire, exploring provincial life, politics, and the clergy.
E. The Small House at Allington
The Small House at Allington is a Victorian novel by Anthony Trollope, part of his Chronicles of Barsetshire series, exploring love, class, and social ambition in a rural English community.
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: Blandings Castle series
Target entity description: The Blandings Castle series is a collection of comic novels and stories by P. G. Wodehouse centered on the amiably absent-minded Lord Emsworth, his eccentric family, and the idyllic Shropshire estate of Blandings Castle.

A. The Winslow Boy
The Winslow Boy is a 1946 stage play by Terence Rattigan that dramatizes a real Edwardian-era legal case in which a family sacrifices everything to clear their young son’s name.
B. Barchester Towers
Barchester Towers is an 1857 Victorian novel by Anthony Trollope that satirically portrays clerical politics and social maneuvering in the fictional English cathedral town of Barchester.
C. Palliser series
The Palliser series is a sequence of Victorian political novels by Anthony Trollope that follows the lives and careers of the aristocratic Palliser family within British high society and Parliament.
D. Chronicles of Barsetshire
Chronicles of Barsetshire is Anthony Trollope’s celebrated series of Victorian novels set in the fictional English county of Barsetshire, exploring provincial life, politics, and the clergy.
E. The Small House at Allington
The Small House at Allington is a Victorian novel by Anthony Trollope, part of his Chronicles of Barsetshire series, exploring love, class, and social ambition in a rural English community.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (60)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	comic fiction series ⓘ literary work series ⓘ
author	P. G. Wodehouse ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United Kingdom ⓘ
creator	P. G. Wodehouse ⓘ
fictionalCounty	Shropshire ⓘ
fictionalUniverse	P. G. Wodehouse universe ⓘ linked to: P. G. Wodehouse
firstPublicationYear	1915 ⓘ
genre	comic novel ⓘ humorous fiction ⓘ light fiction ⓘ
hasPart	A Pelican at Blandings ⓘ Birth of a Salesman ⓘ Blandings Castle (short story collection) ⓘ linked to: Blandings Castle series Blandings Castle and Elsewhere ⓘ linked to: Blandings Castle series Company for Gertrude ⓘ Fish Preferred ⓘ Full Moon ⓘ Galahad at Blandings ⓘ Heavy Weather ⓘ Leave It to Psmith ⓘ Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best ⓘ Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend ⓘ Lord Emsworth and the Girlfriend (variant title) ⓘ linked to: Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey ⓘ Pigs Have Wings ⓘ Service with a Smile ⓘ Something Fresh ⓘ Something New ⓘ Something New (US title of Something Fresh) ⓘ linked to: Something Fresh Sticky Wicket at Blandings ⓘ Summer Lightning ⓘ Sunset at Blandings ⓘ The Crime Wave at Blandings ⓘ The Custody of the Pumpkin ⓘ The Go-getter ⓘ Uncle Fred in the Springtime ⓘ linked to: Uncle Fred stories
language	English ⓘ
literaryPeriod	Edwardian and interwar literature ⓘ
mainCharacter	Beach ⓘ Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth ⓘ linked to: Lord Emsworth Freddie Threepwood ⓘ Galahad Threepwood ⓘ Lady Constance Keeble ⓘ Lord Bosham ⓘ Lord Emsworth ⓘ The Empress of Blandings ⓘ
mainLocation	Shropshire ⓘ
mainSetting	Blandings Castle ⓘ
narrativeTone	light-hearted ⓘ
notableAnimalCharacter	The Empress of Blandings ⓘ
protagonist	Lord Emsworth ⓘ
publisher	Doubleday, Doran & Company ⓘ linked to: Doubleday Herbert Jenkins ⓘ
sharesUniverseWith	Drones Club stories ⓘ Jeeves series ⓘ linked to: Jeeves and Wooster
timePeriod	20th century ⓘ
typicalTheme	British aristocracy ⓘ romantic entanglements ⓘ social satire ⓘ

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Referenced by (71)

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P. G. Wodehouse → notableWork → Blandings Castle series ⓘ

P. G. Wodehouse → notableWork → Blandings Castle stories ⓘ

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