Elijah Price / Mr. Glass
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Elijah Price, also known as Mr. Glass, is the brilliant but physically fragile comic-book-obsessed mastermind and primary antagonist in M. Night Shyamalan’s superhero thriller "Unbreakable" and its sequels.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elijah Price / Mr. Glass canonical | 1 |
| Elijah Price – Samuel L. Jackson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1557856 — 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: Elijah Price / Mr. Glass Context triple: [Samuel L. Jackson, characterPortrayed, Elijah Price / Mr. Glass]
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A.
Elias Pearce
Elias Pearce was the mountaineer credited with making the first recorded ascent of Mount Shasta in California.
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B.
Mr. Sands
Mr. Sands is a white slaveholder and the complex, often morally ambiguous love interest of the narrator in Harriet Jacobs’s autobiographical slave narrative "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
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C.
Elias Loomis
Elias Loomis was a 19th-century American mathematician and physicist known for his work in astronomy, meteorology, and mathematical education.
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D.
Lloyd Vogel
Lloyd Vogel is the fictional, emotionally troubled journalist protagonist of the film "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood," whose life is transformed through his encounters with Fred Rogers.
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E.
Oscar Hopkins
Oscar Hopkins is a timid, eccentric Anglican priest and compulsive gambler who becomes one of the two central protagonists in Peter Carey’s novel "Oscar and Lucinda."
- 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: Elijah Price / Mr. Glass Target entity description: Elijah Price, also known as Mr. Glass, is the brilliant but physically fragile comic-book-obsessed mastermind and primary antagonist in M. Night Shyamalan’s superhero thriller "Unbreakable" and its sequels.
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A.
Elias Pearce
Elias Pearce was the mountaineer credited with making the first recorded ascent of Mount Shasta in California.
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B.
Mr. Sands
Mr. Sands is a white slaveholder and the complex, often morally ambiguous love interest of the narrator in Harriet Jacobs’s autobiographical slave narrative "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
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C.
Elias Loomis
Elias Loomis was a 19th-century American mathematician and physicist known for his work in astronomy, meteorology, and mathematical education.
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D.
Lloyd Vogel
Lloyd Vogel is the fictional, emotionally troubled journalist protagonist of the film "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood," whose life is transformed through his encounters with Fred Rogers.
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E.
Oscar Hopkins
Oscar Hopkins is a timid, eccentric Anglican priest and compulsive gambler who becomes one of the two central protagonists in Peter Carey’s novel "Oscar and Lucinda."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comic book character archetype
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fictional character ⓘ supervillain ⓘ |
| alias | Mr. Glass ⓘ |
| alignment | villain ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Glass
ⓘ
Split ⓘ Unbreakable ⓘ |
| believes | comic books reflect real-life superhumans ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith | Kevin Wendell Crumb ⓘ |
| createdBy | M. Night Shyamalan ⓘ |
| deathIn | Glass ⓘ |
| enemyOf | David Dunn ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 2000 ⓘ |
| franchise |
Unbreakable film series
ⓘ
linked to:
Unbreakable
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| goal | reveal existence of superhumans to the world ⓘ |
| hairColor | black ⓘ |
| hasDisability | severe bone fragility ⓘ |
| hasMedicalCondition | osteogenesis imperfecta ⓘ |
| hobby | collecting comic books ⓘ |
| intelligenceLevel | genius ⓘ |
| killedBy | paramilitary operatives in Glass ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| moralView | sees himself as opposite of a superhero ⓘ |
| mother | Mrs. Price ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | American ⓘ |
| nicknameOrigin | bones break like glass ⓘ |
| notableAction |
caused Eastrail 177 train derailment
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engineered multiple disasters to find a real-life superhero ⓘ |
| notableFor | extreme physical fragility ⓘ |
| notableQuoteTheme | purpose found through suffering ⓘ |
| obsessedWith | comic books ⓘ |
| occupation |
art gallery owner
ⓘ
criminal mastermind ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
highly intelligent
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manipulative ⓘ obsessive ⓘ |
| physicalCondition | wheelchair user ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Samuel L. Jackson ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
primary antagonist of Glass
ⓘ
primary antagonist of Unbreakable ⓘ |
| screenwriterCreator | M. Night Shyamalan ⓘ |
| selfIdentification | supervillain ⓘ |
| setting | Philadelphia ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| strategicRole | master planner of events in Glass ⓘ |
| universe | Eastrail 177 Trilogy ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Elijah Price / Mr. Glass Description of subject: Elijah Price, also known as Mr. Glass, is the brilliant but physically fragile comic-book-obsessed mastermind and primary antagonist in M. Night Shyamalan’s superhero thriller "Unbreakable" and its sequels.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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