The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips
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The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips is a children's historical novel by Michael Morpurgo that follows a young girl and her cat amid the upheaval of World War II in rural England.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8155313 — 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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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips Context triple: [Michael Morpurgo, notableWork, The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips]
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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.
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B.
The Errand Boy
The Errand Boy is a 19th-century rags-to-riches novel by Horatio Alger Jr. that follows a poor youth striving for success through hard work and perseverance.
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C.
The Errand Boy
The Errand Boy is a 1961 American comedy film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis, in which he plays a bumbling studio gofer causing chaos behind the scenes in Hollywood.
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D.
The History of Mr. Polly
The History of Mr. Polly is a comic novel by H. G. Wells about a dissatisfied lower-middle-class shopkeeper who seeks to escape his humdrum life and find personal freedom.
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E.
The Gingham Girl
The Gingham Girl is a 1927 American silent romantic comedy film starring Australian actress Lotus Thompson.
- 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 Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips Target entity description: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips is a children's historical novel by Michael Morpurgo that follows a young girl and her cat amid the upheaval of World War II in rural England.
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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.
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B.
The Errand Boy
The Errand Boy is a 19th-century rags-to-riches novel by Horatio Alger Jr. that follows a poor youth striving for success through hard work and perseverance.
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C.
The Errand Boy
The Errand Boy is a 1961 American comedy film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis, in which he plays a bumbling studio gofer causing chaos behind the scenes in Hollywood.
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D.
The History of Mr. Polly
The History of Mr. Polly is a comic novel by H. G. Wells about a dissatisfied lower-middle-class shopkeeper who seeks to escape his humdrum life and find personal freedom.
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E.
The Gingham Girl
The Gingham Girl is a 1927 American silent romantic comedy film starring Australian actress Lotus Thompson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | children's novel ⓘ |
| author | Michael Morpurgo ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
children's literature
ⓘ
historical fiction ⓘ war fiction ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
audiobook
ⓘ
e-book ⓘ print book ⓘ |
| hasIllustrations | yes ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
evacuation of villages for military training
ⓘ
relationships between British civilians and American soldiers ⓘ |
| intendedUse | children's education about World War II through fiction ⓘ |
| literaryStyle | diary format ⓘ |
| mainAnimalCharacter | cat ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Adolphus Tips
ⓘ
Lily Tregenza ⓘ |
| mediaType | book ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| notableFor | depicting civilian life in World War II England ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| publisher | HarperCollins ⓘ |
| settingCountry | England ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | World War II ⓘ |
| settingRegion | rural England ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
children
ⓘ
middle-grade readers ⓘ |
| themes |
courage
ⓘ
family ⓘ friendship ⓘ war and displacement ⓘ |
| timeOfNarration | contemporary frame narrative reflecting on past events ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips Description of subject: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips is a children's historical novel by Michael Morpurgo that follows a young girl and her cat amid the upheaval of World War II in rural England.
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