Porno (novel)
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"Porno" is Irvine Welsh's darkly comic sequel to "Trainspotting," revisiting its Edinburgh characters a decade later amid the world of the porn industry.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Porno (novel) canonical | 3 |
| Porno | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2233370 — 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: Porno (novel) Context triple: [Trainspotting (novel), followedBy, Porno (novel)]
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A.
Crimes Against Nature
"Crimes Against Nature" is a nonfiction book by environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that critiques corporate pollution and government complicity in environmental degradation.
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B.
The Lady of Pleasure
The Lady of Pleasure is a Caroline-era comedy play by James Shirley that satirizes the excesses and moral corruption of the English aristocracy.
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C.
Moi... Lolita
"Moi... Lolita" is a 2000 French pop song that launched singer Alizée to fame with its catchy melody and provocative, Lolita-themed lyrics.
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D.
Seven Dirty Words
Seven Dirty Words is George Carlin’s famous stand-up comedy routine that satirically examines censorship and taboo language, becoming a landmark in debates over free speech and broadcast regulation.
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E.
The Stripper
The Stripper is a 1963 American drama film, adapted from William Inge’s play "A Loss of Roses," about an aging burlesque performer and featuring a score by composer David Rose.
- 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: Porno (novel) Target entity description: "Porno" is Irvine Welsh's darkly comic sequel to "Trainspotting," revisiting its Edinburgh characters a decade later amid the world of the porn industry.
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A.
Crimes Against Nature
"Crimes Against Nature" is a nonfiction book by environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that critiques corporate pollution and government complicity in environmental degradation.
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B.
The Lady of Pleasure
The Lady of Pleasure is a Caroline-era comedy play by James Shirley that satirizes the excesses and moral corruption of the English aristocracy.
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C.
Moi... Lolita
"Moi... Lolita" is a 2000 French pop song that launched singer Alizée to fame with its catchy melody and provocative, Lolita-themed lyrics.
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D.
Seven Dirty Words
Seven Dirty Words is George Carlin’s famous stand-up comedy routine that satirically examines censorship and taboo language, becoming a landmark in debates over free speech and broadcast regulation.
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E.
The Stripper
The Stripper is a 1963 American drama film, adapted from William Inge’s play "A Loss of Roses," about an aging burlesque performer and featuring a score by composer David Rose.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary work
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novel ⓘ |
| adaptedInto |
T2 Trainspotting (film)
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linked to:
T2 Trainspotting
|
| author | Irvine Welsh ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Scotland ⓘ |
| coverArtist | Angus Hyland ⓘ |
| follows | Trainspotting (novel) ⓘ |
| genre |
black comedy
ⓘ
contemporary fiction ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| hasSequel | Skagboys ⓘ |
| languageStyle |
Scots dialect
ⓘ
vernacular English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Francis Begbie
ⓘ
Mark Renton ⓘ Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson ⓘ Spud ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | multiple first-person narrators ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
Trainspotting series
ⓘ
linked to:
Trainspotting film series
|
| placeOfPublication | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2002 ⓘ |
| publisher | Jonathan Cape ⓘ |
| setIn | Edinburgh ⓘ |
| theme |
addiction
ⓘ
aging and disillusionment ⓘ betrayal ⓘ friendship ⓘ pornography industry ⓘ |
| timeSetting | approximately ten years after Trainspotting ⓘ |
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: Porno (novel) Description of subject: "Porno" is Irvine Welsh's darkly comic sequel to "Trainspotting," revisiting its Edinburgh characters a decade later amid the world of the porn industry.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Porno (novel)
linked to: Porno (novel)