The Glass Virgin
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The Glass Virgin is a British television drama adaptation of a Catherine Cookson novel, following a young woman’s journey of self-discovery and family secrets in Victorian England.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Glass Virgin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13474081 — 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 Glass Virgin Context triple: [Geraldine Somerville, notableWork, The Glass Virgin]
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A.
The Caged Virgin
The Caged Virgin is a controversial non-fiction book by Ayaan Hirsi Ali that critiques the treatment of women in Islamic societies and advocates for liberal reform and women's rights.
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B.
The House of Glass
The House of Glass is a 1918 American silent drama film starring Clara Kimball Young, known for its themes of scandal and social reputation.
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C.
Shard of Glass
Shard of Glass is a landmark skyscraper in London known for its distinctive glass-clad, shard-like design and status as one of the tallest buildings in the United Kingdom.
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D.
The Cut-Glass Bowl
The Cut-Glass Bowl is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that explores themes of materialism, marital strain, and the unintended consequences of seemingly glamorous possessions in early 20th-century American society.
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E.
The World of Glass
The World of Glass is a museum and visitor attraction in St Helens, England, dedicated to the history, science, and art of glassmaking.
- 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 Glass Virgin Target entity description: The Glass Virgin is a British television drama adaptation of a Catherine Cookson novel, following a young woman’s journey of self-discovery and family secrets in Victorian England.
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A.
The Caged Virgin
The Caged Virgin is a controversial non-fiction book by Ayaan Hirsi Ali that critiques the treatment of women in Islamic societies and advocates for liberal reform and women's rights.
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B.
The House of Glass
The House of Glass is a 1918 American silent drama film starring Clara Kimball Young, known for its themes of scandal and social reputation.
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C.
Shard of Glass
Shard of Glass is a landmark skyscraper in London known for its distinctive glass-clad, shard-like design and status as one of the tallest buildings in the United Kingdom.
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D.
The Cut-Glass Bowl
The Cut-Glass Bowl is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that explores themes of materialism, marital strain, and the unintended consequences of seemingly glamorous possessions in early 20th-century American society.
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E.
The World of Glass
The World of Glass is a museum and visitor attraction in St Helens, England, dedicated to the history, science, and art of glassmaking.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British television drama
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television miniseries ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | Catherine Cookson television adaptations ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Catherine Cookson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Glass Virgin (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterFocus | Annabella Lagrange NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Barrington Pheloung NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Brendan Maher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | ITV Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| executiveProducer | Ray Marshall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocationRegion |
County Durham
NERFINISHED
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Northumberland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstBroadcastYear | 1995 ⓘ |
| genre |
period drama
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romantic drama ⓘ |
| mainCharacterPortrayedBy | Emily Mortimer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 3 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | ITV ⓘ |
| producer | Ray Marshall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Tyne Tees Television NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Alan Seymour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPlace | England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingRegion | North East England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTime | Victorian era ⓘ |
| stars |
Brendan Coyle
NERFINISHED
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Christine Kavanagh NERFINISHED ⓘ Emily Mortimer NERFINISHED ⓘ Nigel Havers NERFINISHED ⓘ Sylvia Syms NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
class differences
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family secrets ⓘ identity ⓘ self-discovery ⓘ |
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 Glass Virgin Description of subject: The Glass Virgin is a British television drama adaptation of a Catherine Cookson novel, following a young woman’s journey of self-discovery and family secrets in Victorian England.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.