The Metropolitan Touch
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"The Metropolitan Touch" is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse featuring the valet Jeeves and his employer Bertie Wooster.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Metropolitan Touch canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6691638 — 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 Metropolitan Touch Context triple: [The Inimitable Jeeves, hasPart, The Metropolitan Touch]
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A.
New Metropolis
New Metropolis was the original name of Amsterdam’s futuristic, hands-on science and technology center now known as the NEMO Science Museum.
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B.
Lonely Metropolitan
Lonely Metropolitan is a surrealist photomontage by Herbert Bayer, notable for its haunting depiction of disembodied eyes within gloved hands set against an urban backdrop.
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C.
Transmetropolitan
Transmetropolitan is a critically acclaimed cyberpunk comic book series written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Darick Robertson, following gonzo journalist Spider Jerusalem as he battles corruption in a dystopian future city.
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D.
The Meaning of the City
The Meaning of the City is a theological and sociological study by Jacques Ellul that explores the city as a symbol of human rebellion against God and a central locus of modern alienation and idolatry.
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E.
The City
The City is a common nickname for Manhattan, the densely populated and iconic borough of New York City known for its skyscrapers, cultural landmarks, and role as a global financial and media hub.
- 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 Metropolitan Touch Target entity description: "The Metropolitan Touch" is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse featuring the valet Jeeves and his employer Bertie Wooster.
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A.
New Metropolis
New Metropolis was the original name of Amsterdam’s futuristic, hands-on science and technology center now known as the NEMO Science Museum.
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B.
Lonely Metropolitan
Lonely Metropolitan is a surrealist photomontage by Herbert Bayer, notable for its haunting depiction of disembodied eyes within gloved hands set against an urban backdrop.
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C.
Transmetropolitan
Transmetropolitan is a critically acclaimed cyberpunk comic book series written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Darick Robertson, following gonzo journalist Spider Jerusalem as he battles corruption in a dystopian future city.
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D.
The Meaning of the City
The Meaning of the City is a theological and sociological study by Jacques Ellul that explores the city as a symbol of human rebellion against God and a central locus of modern alienation and idolatry.
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E.
The City
The City is a common nickname for Manhattan, the densely populated and iconic borough of New York City known for its skyscrapers, cultural landmarks, and role as a global financial and media hub.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
short story
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work of fiction ⓘ |
| author | P. G. Wodehouse ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Bertie Wooster
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Jeeves ⓘ |
| genre | humorous fiction ⓘ |
| hasDeuteragonist | Jeeves ⓘ |
| hasHumorType |
situational comedy
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verbal wit ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter | Bertie Wooster ⓘ |
| hasProtagonist | Bertie Wooster ⓘ |
| hasSeries | Jeeves stories ⓘ |
| hasSupportingCharacter | Jeeves ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
misunderstandings and farce
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servant–employer dynamics ⓘ social comedy ⓘ upper-class British society ⓘ |
| hasValetMasterRelationship |
Jeeves and Bertie Wooster
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linked to:
Bertie Wooster and Jeeves
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| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| literaryStyle | comic prose ⓘ |
| narrationType | first-person narration ⓘ |
| narratorCharacter | Bertie Wooster ⓘ |
| partOfAuthorCorpus | P. G. Wodehouse bibliography ⓘ |
| setIn |
London
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linked to:
London, England
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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: The Metropolitan Touch Description of subject: "The Metropolitan Touch" is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse featuring the valet Jeeves and his employer Bertie Wooster.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.