Jack Glass
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Jack Glass is a science fiction murder mystery novel by Adam Roberts that blends classic whodunit elements with a far-future space-opera setting.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jack Glass canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7474518 — 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: Jack Glass Context triple: [Glass, hasNotableBearer, Jack Glass]
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A.
Andy Glass
Andy Glass is an American musician best known as the bassist and backing vocalist for the metalcore band We Came as Romans.
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B.
Jack Glasscock
Jack Glasscock was a prominent 19th-century Major League Baseball shortstop known for his exceptional fielding and consistent hitting.
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C.
Spencer Glass
Spencer Glass is an American professional soccer player known for his collegiate career at Indiana University and subsequent play in Major League Soccer.
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D.
Jack Gariss
Jack Gariss was an American screenwriter best known for his work on major mid-20th-century Hollywood films, including contributing to the script of Cecil B. DeMille’s epic "The Ten Commandments" (1956).
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E.
Jackson Cage
"Jackson Cage" is a song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1980 album *The River*, depicting themes of entrapment and working-class struggle.
- 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: Jack Glass Target entity description: Jack Glass is a science fiction murder mystery novel by Adam Roberts that blends classic whodunit elements with a far-future space-opera setting.
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A.
Andy Glass
Andy Glass is an American musician best known as the bassist and backing vocalist for the metalcore band We Came as Romans.
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B.
Jack Glasscock
Jack Glasscock was a prominent 19th-century Major League Baseball shortstop known for his exceptional fielding and consistent hitting.
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C.
Spencer Glass
Spencer Glass is an American professional soccer player known for his collegiate career at Indiana University and subsequent play in Major League Soccer.
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D.
Jack Gariss
Jack Gariss was an American screenwriter best known for his work on major mid-20th-century Hollywood films, including contributing to the script of Cecil B. DeMille’s epic "The Ten Commandments" (1956).
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E.
Jackson Cage
"Jackson Cage" is a song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1980 album *The River*, depicting themes of entrapment and working-class struggle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
murder mystery novel
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novel ⓘ science fiction novel ⓘ |
| author | Adam Roberts ⓘ |
| award | BSFA Award for Best Novel ⓘ |
| awardCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
mystery ⓘ science fiction ⓘ space opera ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception | positive reviews ⓘ |
| hasElement |
detective fiction
ⓘ
locked-room mystery ⓘ puzzle-plot structure ⓘ |
| hasMedium |
ebook
ⓘ
print ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
class inequality
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confinement ⓘ crime ⓘ justice ⓘ power structures ⓘ revolution ⓘ |
| isFictionalUniverseType | dystopian future ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Jack Glass ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | whodunit ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blending classic whodunit with space opera
ⓘ
formal experimentation in mystery structure ⓘ |
| partCount | 3 ⓘ |
| protagonistRole |
detective
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murderer ⓘ |
| publisher | Gollancz ⓘ |
| setting |
far future
ⓘ
outer space ⓘ |
| structure | three-part narrative ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfPublication | 21st 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: Jack Glass Description of subject: Jack Glass is a science fiction murder mystery novel by Adam Roberts that blends classic whodunit elements with a far-future space-opera setting.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.