Percy Pilbeam is a private detective
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Percy Pilbeam is a somewhat unscrupulous and opportunistic private detective who appears in P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Percy Pilbeam (self-employed as detective) | 1 |
| Percy Pilbeam is a private detective canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5557233 — 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: Percy Pilbeam is a private detective Context triple: [Heavy Weather, hasCharacterRole, Percy Pilbeam is a private detective]
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A.
Inspector Frank Bumstead
Inspector Frank Bumstead is a weary, morally driven police detective in the neo-noir science fiction film "Dark City," who gradually uncovers the disturbing truth behind the city's reality.
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B.
Maurice Purley in Secrets & Lies
Maurice Purley in *Secrets & Lies* is a kind-hearted but emotionally burdened photographer who struggles to hold his fractured family together amid long-buried tensions and revelations.
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C.
Detective Roland Castlebeck
Detective Roland Castlebeck is a relentless LAPD investigator determined to bring down master car thief Randall "Memphis" Raines in the action film "Gone in 60 Seconds."
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D.
Inspector Chester Campbell
Inspector Chester Campbell is a ruthless and morally rigid Belfast police inspector who becomes one of the primary antagonists in the British crime drama series *Peaky Blinders*.
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E.
Sam Spade
Sam Spade is a hard-boiled private detective and the iconic protagonist of Dashiell Hammett’s novel "The Maltese Falcon," widely regarded as a defining figure in American noir fiction.
- 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: Percy Pilbeam is a private detective Target entity description: Percy Pilbeam is a somewhat unscrupulous and opportunistic private detective who appears in P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories.
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A.
Inspector Frank Bumstead
Inspector Frank Bumstead is a weary, morally driven police detective in the neo-noir science fiction film "Dark City," who gradually uncovers the disturbing truth behind the city's reality.
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B.
Maurice Purley in Secrets & Lies
Maurice Purley in *Secrets & Lies* is a kind-hearted but emotionally burdened photographer who struggles to hold his fractured family together amid long-buried tensions and revelations.
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C.
Detective Roland Castlebeck
Detective Roland Castlebeck is a relentless LAPD investigator determined to bring down master car thief Randall "Memphis" Raines in the action film "Gone in 60 Seconds."
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D.
Inspector Chester Campbell
Inspector Chester Campbell is a ruthless and morally rigid Belfast police inspector who becomes one of the primary antagonists in the British crime drama series *Peaky Blinders*.
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E.
Nick Charles is a retired private detective
Nick Charles is the witty, hard-drinking sleuth at the center of Dashiell Hammett’s "The Thin Man," known for solving mysteries alongside his glamorous wife, Nora.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
private detective ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Blandings Castle stories
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Heavy Weather ⓘ Summer Lightning ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Blandings Castle
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Galahad Threepwood ⓘ Lord Emsworth ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
opportunistic
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unscrupulous ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | P. G. Wodehouse ⓘ |
| employer |
Percy Pilbeam (self-employed as detective)
ⓘ
linked to:
Percy Pilbeam is a private detective
|
| genre | comic fiction ⓘ |
| hasMoralAlignment | morally dubious ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryUniverse | P. G. Wodehouse universe ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| occupation | private detective ⓘ |
| partOf | Blandings Castle series ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative |
comic antagonist
ⓘ
schemer ⓘ |
| usedFor | comic effect ⓘ |
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: Percy Pilbeam is a private detective Description of subject: Percy Pilbeam is a somewhat unscrupulous and opportunistic private detective who appears in P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Percy Pilbeam is a private detective
linked to: Percy Pilbeam is a private detective