Glennie
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Glennie is a Scottish surname most notably borne by Dame Evelyn Glennie, the renowned virtuoso percussionist.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Glennie canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6722216 — 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: Glennie Context triple: [Evelyn Glennie, familyName, Glennie]
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A.
Glennis
Glennis is a feminine given name, best known for belonging to Glennis Dickhouse Yeager, the wife of test pilot Chuck Yeager and namesake of the Bell X-1 aircraft "Glamorous Glennis."
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B.
Glennie-Smith
Glennie-Smith is the surname of Nick Glennie-Smith, a British film composer known for his work on numerous Hollywood soundtracks.
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C.
Keely
Keely is a surname most notably associated with Patrick Charles Keely, a prominent 19th-century Irish-American architect known for designing numerous Roman Catholic churches in the United States.
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D.
Sheelagh
Sheelagh is a feminine given name, typically considered an alternative spelling of Sheila and ultimately derived from the Irish name Síle.
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E.
Sheilia
Sheilia is a feminine given name, typically considered an alternative spelling of the name Sheila.
- 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: Glennie Target entity description: Glennie is a Scottish surname most notably borne by Dame Evelyn Glennie, the renowned virtuoso percussionist.
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A.
Glennis
Glennis is a feminine given name, best known for belonging to Glennis Dickhouse Yeager, the wife of test pilot Chuck Yeager and namesake of the Bell X-1 aircraft "Glamorous Glennis."
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B.
Glennie-Smith
Glennie-Smith is the surname of Nick Glennie-Smith, a British film composer known for his work on numerous Hollywood soundtracks.
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C.
Keely
Keely is a surname most notably associated with Patrick Charles Keely, a prominent 19th-century Irish-American architect known for designing numerous Roman Catholic churches in the United States.
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D.
Sheelagh
Sheelagh is a feminine given name, typically considered an alternative spelling of Sheila and ultimately derived from the Irish name Síle.
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E.
Sheilia
Sheilia is a feminine given name, typically considered an alternative spelling of the name Sheila.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
ⓘ
human ⓘ music educator ⓘ musician ⓘ percussionist ⓘ surname ⓘ virtuoso percussionist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Scotland ⓘ |
| familyName | Glennie ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
classical music
ⓘ
contemporary music ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Evelyn ⓘ |
| hasDisability | profound hearing loss ⓘ |
| hasHonor |
Grammy Award
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Royal Philharmonic Society awards ⓘ damehood ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Evelyn Glennie
ⓘ
Evelyn Glennie, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire ⓘ
linked to:
Evelyn Glennie
|
| honorificPrefix | Dame ⓘ |
| influenced |
accessibility in music performance
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percussion performance practice ⓘ |
| instrument | percussion ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy for deaf and hard-of-hearing musicians
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solo percussion performances ⓘ virtuoso percussion technique ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
English
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Scots ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the first full-time solo percussionists ⓘ |
| notableWork |
percussion recordings
ⓘ
solo percussion concertos ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
ⓘ
music educator ⓘ percussionist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Scotland ⓘ |
| title | Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire ⓘ |
| usedAs | Scottish surname ⓘ |
| uses | vibration-based listening techniques ⓘ |
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: Glennie Description of subject: Glennie is a Scottish surname most notably borne by Dame Evelyn Glennie, the renowned virtuoso percussionist.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Glennie