Great Glass Elevator
E514087
The Great Glass Elevator is Willy Wonka’s fantastical multi-directional flying elevator that transports passengers through his chocolate factory and into outer space in Roald Dahl’s stories.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Glass Elevator ride | 1 |
| Great Glass Elevator canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5359138 — 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: Great Glass Elevator Context triple: [Willy Wonka, associatedWith, Great Glass Elevator]
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A.
SkyRise elevator
SkyRise elevator is a high-speed, high-rise elevator system developed by Otis Elevator Company for use in tall commercial and residential buildings.
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B.
Infinity Tower
Infinity Tower, now known as Cayan Tower, is a distinctive 75-story residential skyscraper in Dubai famous for its 90-degree twisting design.
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C.
Ice Tower
Ice Tower is the English meaning of the name "Muztagh Tower," a striking and notoriously difficult peak in the Karakoram range of the Himalayas.
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D.
Trade Tower
Trade Tower is a prominent commercial skyscraper located in the Diamond Exchange District, known for housing offices and businesses linked to the local diamond and trade industries.
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E.
Walter Pyramid
Walter Pyramid is a distinctive blue, pyramid-shaped indoor arena on the campus of California State University, Long Beach, best known as a venue for college basketball and volleyball.
- 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: Great Glass Elevator Target entity description: The Great Glass Elevator is Willy Wonka’s fantastical multi-directional flying elevator that transports passengers through his chocolate factory and into outer space in Roald Dahl’s stories.
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A.
SkyRise elevator
SkyRise elevator is a high-speed, high-rise elevator system developed by Otis Elevator Company for use in tall commercial and residential buildings.
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B.
Infinity Tower
Infinity Tower, now known as Cayan Tower, is a distinctive 75-story residential skyscraper in Dubai famous for its 90-degree twisting design.
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C.
Ice Tower
Ice Tower is the English meaning of the name "Muztagh Tower," a striking and notoriously difficult peak in the Karakoram range of the Himalayas.
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D.
Trade Tower
Trade Tower is a prominent commercial skyscraper located in the Diamond Exchange District, known for housing offices and businesses linked to the local diamond and trade industries.
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E.
Walter Pyramid
Walter Pyramid is a distinctive blue, pyramid-shaped indoor arena on the campus of California State University, Long Beach, best known as a venue for college basketball and volleyball.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Roald Dahl fictional object
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fictional elevator ⓘ fictional vehicle ⓘ flying machine ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
NERFINISHED
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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthor | Roald Dahl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter | Willy Wonka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithFranchise | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Roald Dahl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreContext |
children's literature
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fantasy fiction ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
navigate Willy Wonka's chocolate factory
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re-enter Earth's atmosphere ⓘ transport passengers ⓘ travel to space hotel ⓘ |
| hasMaterial | glass ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
can fly
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can travel in any direction ⓘ can travel into outer space ⓘ can travel through factory ⓘ enclosed cabin ⓘ glass control panel ⓘ multi-directional movement ⓘ transparent walls ⓘ |
| hasShape | rectangular prism ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
central plot device
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means of transition between locations ⓘ |
| owner | Willy Wonka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryOperator | Willy Wonka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Earth orbit
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Willy Wonka's chocolate factory NERFINISHED ⓘ space hotel U.S.A. ⓘ |
| titleSubjectOf | Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedByCharacter |
Charlie Bucket
NERFINISHED
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George NERFINISHED ⓘ Georgina NERFINISHED ⓘ Grandma Georgina NERFINISHED ⓘ Grandma Josephine NERFINISHED ⓘ Grandpa Joe NERFINISHED ⓘ Josephine NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr. Bucket NERFINISHED ⓘ Mrs. Bucket NERFINISHED ⓘ Oompa-Loompas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Great Glass Elevator Description of subject: The Great Glass Elevator is Willy Wonka’s fantastical multi-directional flying elevator that transports passengers through his chocolate factory and into outer space in Roald Dahl’s stories.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
this entity surface form:
Glass Elevator ride