Alastair Trumpington
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Alastair Trumpington is a fictional character from Evelyn Waugh’s satirical wartime novel "Put Out More Flags," representing the idle, upper-class milieu of pre-war and early World War II England.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alastair Trumpington canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6635104 — 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: Alastair Trumpington Context triple: [Put Out More Flags, featuresCharacter, Alastair Trumpington]
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A.
Rex Maidment
Rex Maidment is a cinematographer best known for his work on the film "Enchanted April."
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B.
Archibald
Archibald is a masculine given name of Scottish origin traditionally meaning "genuine" or "bold."
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C.
Thomas Troubridge
Thomas Troubridge was a distinguished British Royal Navy officer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for his close association with Admiral Nelson and his service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
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D.
Baron Trimble
Baron Trimble is the life peerage title held by David Trimble, the Northern Irish politician and Nobel Peace Prize laureate known for his key role in the Good Friday Agreement.
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E.
Guy Mountfort
Guy Mountfort was a British advertising executive, author, and conservationist best known for co-founding the World Wildlife Fund and helping pioneer modern international wildlife conservation efforts.
- 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: Alastair Trumpington Target entity description: Alastair Trumpington is a fictional character from Evelyn Waugh’s satirical wartime novel "Put Out More Flags," representing the idle, upper-class milieu of pre-war and early World War II England.
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A.
Rex Maidment
Rex Maidment is a cinematographer best known for his work on the film "Enchanted April."
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B.
Archibald
Archibald is a masculine given name of Scottish origin traditionally meaning "genuine" or "bold."
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C.
Thomas Troubridge
Thomas Troubridge was a distinguished British Royal Navy officer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for his close association with Admiral Nelson and his service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
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D.
Baron Trimble
Baron Trimble is the life peerage title held by David Trimble, the Northern Irish politician and Nobel Peace Prize laureate known for his key role in the Good Friday Agreement.
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E.
Guy Mountfort
Guy Mountfort was a British advertising executive, author, and conservationist best known for co-founding the World Wildlife Fund and helping pioneer modern international wildlife conservation efforts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Put Out More Flags ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | Evelyn Waugh ⓘ |
| depictsSocialClass | British upper class ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Put Out More Flags ⓘ |
| genre | satire ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | representative of idle upper-class milieu ⓘ |
| timePeriodSetting |
early World War II England
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pre-World War II England ⓘ |
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: Alastair Trumpington Description of subject: Alastair Trumpington is a fictional character from Evelyn Waugh’s satirical wartime novel "Put Out More Flags," representing the idle, upper-class milieu of pre-war and early World War II England.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.