Quirke
E502214
Quirke is a television drama series based on Benjamin Black’s crime novels, featuring Gabriel Byrne as a troubled pathologist investigating dark mysteries in 1950s Dublin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Quirke canonical | 2 |
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish writer
ⓘ
actor ⓘ pseudonym ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceMaterial | Benjamin Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Quirke novels
ⓘ
crime novels by Benjamin Black ⓘ |
| characterType | troubled protagonist ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| director | John Alexander NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | BBC Worldwide NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| executiveProducer |
Andrew Lowe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ed Guiney NERFINISHED ⓘ Edgar Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ John Banville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
County Dublin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dublin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAired | 2014 ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
mystery ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
Catholic Church influence
ⓘ
adoption scandals ⓘ family secrets ⓘ institutional corruption ⓘ |
| isAdaptation | true ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Quirke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | pathologist ⓘ |
| mainCharacterPortrayedBy | Gabriel Byrne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Irish ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 3 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeries | 1 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork |
BBC One
ⓘ
RTÉ One NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| periodDrama | true ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Element Pictures
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Samson Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistPersonalityTrait |
alcoholic
ⓘ
brooding ⓘ morally conflicted ⓘ |
| realName | John Banville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Andrew Davies
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Conor McPherson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPlace | Dublin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTime | 1950s ⓘ |
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: Quirke Description of subject: Quirke is a television drama series based on Benjamin Black’s crime novels, featuring Gabriel Byrne as a troubled pathologist investigating dark mysteries in 1950s Dublin.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.