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.

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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.

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