Glue
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"Glue" is a novel by Scottish author Irvine Welsh that follows the intertwined lives of four working-class friends in Edinburgh over several decades.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Glue canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10488345 — 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: Glue Context triple: [Irvine Welsh, notableWork, Glue]
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A.
Like Glue
"Like Glue" is a popular dancehall song by Jamaican artist Sean Paul, known for its catchy rhythm and widespread international success in the early 2000s.
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B.
Goo
Goo is a 1990 alternative rock album by Sonic Youth, noted for its noisy guitar sound and influential role in bringing underground rock toward the mainstream.
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C.
Goo
Goo is an energetic, talkative girl from the animated series "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends" known for her overactive imagination and rapid-fire speech.
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D.
Bondo
Bondo is a town in western Kenya’s Nyanza region, known as an administrative and commercial center near Lake Victoria.
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E.
Stickies
Stickies is the nickname for the Official Irish Republican movement, a left-wing Irish republican organization that emerged from a split in the IRA in the late 1960s.
- 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: Glue Target entity description: "Glue" is a novel by Scottish author Irvine Welsh that follows the intertwined lives of four working-class friends in Edinburgh over several decades.
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A.
Like Glue
"Like Glue" is a popular dancehall song by Jamaican artist Sean Paul, known for its catchy rhythm and widespread international success in the early 2000s.
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B.
Goo
Goo is a 1990 alternative rock album by Sonic Youth, noted for its noisy guitar sound and influential role in bringing underground rock toward the mainstream.
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C.
Goo
Goo is an energetic, talkative girl from the animated series "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends" known for her overactive imagination and rapid-fire speech.
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D.
Bondo
Bondo is a town in western Kenya’s Nyanza region, known as an administrative and commercial center near Lake Victoria.
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E.
Stickies
Stickies is the nickname for the Official Irish Republican movement, a left-wing Irish republican organization that emerged from a split in the IRA in the late 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Irvine Welsh ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Scotland ⓘ |
| depicts |
Edinburgh working-class culture
ⓘ
changes in Scottish society over time ⓘ |
| featuresDialect |
Scots
ⓘ
Scottish English ⓘ |
| follows | lives of four working-class friends ⓘ |
| genre |
contemporary novel
ⓘ
fiction ⓘ social novel ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasMedium |
book
ⓘ
print ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeStructure |
multi-decade
ⓘ
multi-perspective ⓘ |
| hasProtagonistGroupType | male friends ⓘ |
| hasTargetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
addiction
ⓘ
aging ⓘ family relationships ⓘ friendship ⓘ identity ⓘ loyalty ⓘ masculinity ⓘ social change ⓘ working-class life ⓘ |
| isWrittenBy | Scottish author ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
colloquial language
ⓘ
dark humor ⓘ gritty realism ⓘ use of dialect ⓘ |
| mainCharactersSocialClass | working class ⓘ |
| narrativeScope | several decades ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| settingCountry | Scotland ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Edinburgh ⓘ |
| timePeriodCovered |
early 21st century
ⓘ
late 20th 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: Glue Description of subject: "Glue" is a novel by Scottish author Irvine Welsh that follows the intertwined lives of four working-class friends in Edinburgh over several decades.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.