The Glass Key (novel)
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The Glass Key (novel) is a 1931 hardboiled crime novel by Dashiell Hammett that follows fixer Ned Beaumont as he navigates political corruption, betrayal, and murder in an unnamed American city.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Glass Key | 3 |
| The Glass Key (novel) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6503799 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Glass Key (novel) Context triple: [The Glass Key (1942 film), basedOn, The Glass Key (novel)]
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The Glass Key (1942 film)
The Glass Key (1942 film) is a classic 1940s American film noir crime drama, based on Dashiell Hammett’s novel, known for its intricate political intrigue and hard-boiled style.
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The Lady in the Lake
The Lady in the Lake is a 1943 hardboiled detective novel by Raymond Chandler featuring private investigator Philip Marlowe as he unravels a complex mystery surrounding a missing woman and a body found in a remote lake.
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The Adventures of Sam Spade
The Adventures of Sam Spade is a classic American radio drama series from the 1940s that follows hard-boiled private detective Sam Spade through witty, fast-paced crime and mystery cases.
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Detective Story
Detective Story is a 1951 American crime drama film, based on Sidney Kingsley’s play, that follows a rigid New York City detective whose moral absolutism is tested over the course of a single day in a busy precinct.
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Guilty by Suspicion
Guilty by Suspicion is a 1991 drama film about a Hollywood director facing the anti-communist blacklist era in 1950s America.
- 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 Key (novel) Target entity description: The Glass Key (novel) is a 1931 hardboiled crime novel by Dashiell Hammett that follows fixer Ned Beaumont as he navigates political corruption, betrayal, and murder in an unnamed American city.
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A.
The Glass Key (1942 film)
The Glass Key (1942 film) is a classic 1940s American film noir crime drama, based on Dashiell Hammett’s novel, known for its intricate political intrigue and hard-boiled style.
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B.
The Lady in the Lake
The Lady in the Lake is a 1943 hardboiled detective novel by Raymond Chandler featuring private investigator Philip Marlowe as he unravels a complex mystery surrounding a missing woman and a body found in a remote lake.
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C.
The Adventures of Sam Spade
The Adventures of Sam Spade is a classic American radio drama series from the 1940s that follows hard-boiled private detective Sam Spade through witty, fast-paced crime and mystery cases.
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D.
Detective Story
Detective Story is a 1951 American crime drama film, based on Sidney Kingsley’s play, that follows a rigid New York City detective whose moral absolutism is tested over the course of a single day in a busy precinct.
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E.
Guilty by Suspicion
Guilty by Suspicion is a 1991 drama film about a Hollywood director facing the anti-communist blacklist era in 1950s America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
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hardboiled novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
The Glass Key (1935 film)
NERFINISHED
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The Glass Key (1942 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Dashiell Hammett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| filmAdaptationDirector | Frank Tuttle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationYear |
1935
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1942 ⓘ |
| firstPublicationForm | book ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Thin Man NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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detective fiction ⓘ hardboiled fiction ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Janet Henry
NERFINISHED
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Ned Beaumont NERFINISHED ⓘ Opal Madvig NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Madvig NERFINISHED ⓘ Shad O’Rory NERFINISHED ⓘ Taylor Henry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | political crime novels ⓘ |
| hasProtagonistOccupation | political fixer ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
election politics
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murder investigation ⓘ urban corruption ⓘ |
| hasTitleOrigin | metaphor for fragile trust ⓘ |
| influenced | American noir fiction ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | hardboiled school ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Ned Beaumont NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
complex character relationships
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portrayal of political machines ⓘ |
| notablePublisher | Alfred A. Knopf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Dashiell Hammett bibliography ⓘ |
| precededBy | The Maltese Falcon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1931 ⓘ |
| publisher | Alfred A. Knopf ⓘ |
| setting | unnamed American city ⓘ |
| theme |
betrayal
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loyalty ⓘ organized crime ⓘ political corruption ⓘ political power ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | early 20th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Key (novel) Description of subject: The Glass Key (novel) is a 1931 hardboiled crime novel by Dashiell Hammett that follows fixer Ned Beaumont as he navigates political corruption, betrayal, and murder in an unnamed American city.
Referenced by (4)
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The Glass Key
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The Glass Key