Evelyn Waugh
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Evelyn Waugh was a prominent 20th-century English novelist best known for his satirical and stylistically elegant works such as "Brideshead Revisited" and "A Handful of Dust."
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Evelyn Waugh canonical | 116 |
| Evelyn Waugh bibliography | 2 |
| Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh | 1 |
| English writer Evelyn Waugh | 1 |
| Evelyn Waugh (stylistically comparable) | 1 |
| Evelyn Waugh is an English writer | 1 |
| Waugh | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T216198 — 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: Evelyn Waugh Context triple: [P. G. Wodehouse, influenced, Evelyn Waugh]
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P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse was an English author celebrated for his witty, farcical comic novels and stories, particularly those featuring Jeeves and Wooster.
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B.
E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster was an English novelist, essayist, and critic best known for works such as "A Passage to India," "Howards End," and "A Room with a View," which explore class, culture, and human connection.
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C.
Terence Rattigan
Terence Rattigan was a prominent 20th-century British playwright known for his finely crafted, emotionally restrained dramas such as "The Winslow Boy" and "The Browning Version."
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D.
Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope was a prominent 19th-century English novelist best known for his Barsetshire and Palliser series, which vividly depict Victorian society and politics.
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E.
Peter Fleming
Peter Fleming was a British travel writer, journalist, and adventurer, best known for his travel books and for his work as a wartime intelligence officer.
- 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: Evelyn Waugh Target entity description: Evelyn Waugh was a prominent 20th-century English novelist best known for his satirical and stylistically elegant works such as "Brideshead Revisited" and "A Handful of Dust."
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A.
P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse was an English author celebrated for his witty, farcical comic novels and stories, particularly those featuring Jeeves and Wooster.
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B.
E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster was an English novelist, essayist, and critic best known for works such as "A Passage to India," "Howards End," and "A Room with a View," which explore class, culture, and human connection.
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C.
Terence Rattigan
Terence Rattigan was a prominent 20th-century British playwright known for his finely crafted, emotionally restrained dramas such as "The Winslow Boy" and "The Browning Version."
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D.
Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope was a prominent 19th-century English novelist best known for his Barsetshire and Palliser series, which vividly depict Victorian society and politics.
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E.
Peter Fleming
Peter Fleming was a British travel writer, journalist, and adventurer, best known for his travel books and for his work as a wartime intelligence officer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Evelyn Waugh Description of subject: Evelyn Waugh was a prominent 20th-century English novelist best known for his satirical and stylistically elegant works such as "Brideshead Revisited" and "A Handful of Dust."
Referenced by (123)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Evelyn Waugh
linked to: Evelyn Waugh
subject linked to:
Pelham
subject linked to:
BBC television series Faulks on Fiction
subject linked to:
Evelyn Waugh’s wife Laura Herbert (Herbert family grave)?
subject linked to:
Evelyn Waugh’s wife Laura Herbert (Herbert family grave)?
subject linked to:
film "Brideshead Revisited" (2008)
subject linked to:
Combe Florey
linked to: Evelyn Waugh
linked to: Evelyn Waugh