The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs
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The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs is a short story by Irish author George Moore that follows a woman in 19th-century Dublin who lives and works disguised as a male waiter in order to survive economically.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6091821 — 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 Singular Life of Albert Nobbs Context triple: [Albert Nobbs, basedOn, The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs]
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A.
Intimate Apparel
Intimate Apparel is a critically acclaimed play by Lynn Nottage that explores race, class, gender, and desire in early 20th-century New York through the story of a Black seamstress.
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B.
Ruby Sparks
Ruby Sparks is a 2012 romantic comedy-drama film about a novelist whose fictional dream girl unexpectedly comes to life, written by and starring Zoe Kazan alongside Paul Dano.
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C.
The Aspern Papers
The Aspern Papers is a novella by Henry James that explores themes of literary obsession, secrecy, and moral ambiguity through a scholar’s attempt to obtain the private papers of a deceased poet from his reclusive former lover.
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D.
My Night at Maud’s
My Night at Maud’s is a 1969 French philosophical romantic drama film by Éric Rohmer, renowned for its talk-driven exploration of morality, chance, and desire.
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E.
Three Tall Women
Three Tall Women is a Pulitzer Prize–winning play by Edward Albee that explores memory, aging, and identity through three characters who represent different stages of a woman's life.
- 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 Singular Life of Albert Nobbs Target entity description: The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs is a short story by Irish author George Moore that follows a woman in 19th-century Dublin who lives and works disguised as a male waiter in order to survive economically.
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A.
Intimate Apparel
Intimate Apparel is a critically acclaimed play by Lynn Nottage that explores race, class, gender, and desire in early 20th-century New York through the story of a Black seamstress.
-
B.
Ruby Sparks
Ruby Sparks is a 2012 romantic comedy-drama film about a novelist whose fictional dream girl unexpectedly comes to life, written by and starring Zoe Kazan alongside Paul Dano.
-
C.
The Aspern Papers
The Aspern Papers is a novella by Henry James that explores themes of literary obsession, secrecy, and moral ambiguity through a scholar’s attempt to obtain the private papers of a deceased poet from his reclusive former lover.
-
D.
My Night at Maud’s
My Night at Maud’s is a 1969 French philosophical romantic drama film by Éric Rohmer, renowned for its talk-driven exploration of morality, chance, and desire.
-
E.
Three Tall Women
Three Tall Women is a Pulitzer Prize–winning play by Edward Albee that explores memory, aging, and identity through three characters who represent different stages of a woman's life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film ⓘ literary work ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| adaptedAs | Albert Nobbs (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | George Moore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| biologicalSex | female ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
disguise
ⓘ
economic survival ⓘ gender identity ⓘ social class ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| depicts | women’s economic hardship in 19th-century Ireland ⓘ |
| genderIdentityInPublic | male ⓘ |
| genre |
fiction
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realist fiction ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | Irish literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Albert Nobbs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| protagonistDisguise | male waiter ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | waiter ⓘ |
| settingCountry | Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Dublin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTimePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
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 Singular Life of Albert Nobbs Description of subject: The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs is a short story by Irish author George Moore that follows a woman in 19th-century Dublin who lives and works disguised as a male waiter in order to survive economically.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.