The Winter Guest (play)
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The Winter Guest (play) is a stage drama by Scottish writer Sharman Macdonald that explores the complex, intimate relationship between a grieving mother and her adult daughter over the course of a single winter day in a small Scottish town.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Winter Guest (play) canonical | 2 |
| Paul in The Winter Guest | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11171301 — 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: The Winter Guest (play) Context triple: [The Winter Guest, basedOn, The Winter Guest (play)]
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The Winter Guest
The Winter Guest is a 1997 British drama film, directed by Alan Rickman in his feature directorial debut, that explores the relationship between a grieving mother and daughter in a wintry Scottish seaside town.
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B.
The Gazebo (play)
The Gazebo is a 1958 Broadway mystery-comedy play, co-written by Alec Coppel and Leueen MacGrath, about a television writer who tries to dispose of a blackmailer’s body in his backyard gazebo with farcical consequences.
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Holiday (play)
Holiday (play) is a 1928 stage comedy by Philip Barry about a free-spirited man who questions wealth and social conventions when he becomes engaged to a wealthy woman.
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D.
Terra Nova (play)
Terra Nova is a stage play by Ted Tally that dramatizes Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated Antarctic expedition, blending historical fact with psychological exploration.
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E.
The Winter Garden (opera)
The Winter Garden is a one-act chamber opera by British composer Lennox Berkeley, noted for its intimate scale and lyrical, mid-20th-century musical style.
- 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: The Winter Guest (play) Target entity description: The Winter Guest (play) is a stage drama by Scottish writer Sharman Macdonald that explores the complex, intimate relationship between a grieving mother and her adult daughter over the course of a single winter day in a small Scottish town.
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A.
The Winter Guest
The Winter Guest is a 1997 British drama film, directed by Alan Rickman in his feature directorial debut, that explores the relationship between a grieving mother and daughter in a wintry Scottish seaside town.
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B.
The Gazebo (play)
The Gazebo is a 1958 Broadway mystery-comedy play, co-written by Alec Coppel and Leueen MacGrath, about a television writer who tries to dispose of a blackmailer’s body in his backyard gazebo with farcical consequences.
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C.
Holiday (play)
Holiday (play) is a 1928 stage comedy by Philip Barry about a free-spirited man who questions wealth and social conventions when he becomes engaged to a wealthy woman.
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D.
Terra Nova (play)
Terra Nova is a stage play by Ted Tally that dramatizes Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated Antarctic expedition, blending historical fact with psychological exploration.
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E.
The Winter Garden (opera)
The Winter Garden is a one-act chamber opera by British composer Lennox Berkeley, noted for its intimate scale and lyrical, mid-20th-century musical style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drama
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film adaptation ⓘ playwright ⓘ stage play ⓘ |
| author | Sharman Macdonald ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Winter Guest (play) ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Scotland ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Scotland ⓘ |
| dramaticStructure | one-day time span ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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family drama ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
The Winter Guest (film)
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linked to:
The Winter Guest
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| hasCharacterType |
adult daughter
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grieving mother ⓘ |
| literaryForm | stage drama ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
grief
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mother–daughter relationship ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | intimate relationship between mother and adult daughter ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| setting | small Scottish town ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
coping with loss
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family relationships ⓘ |
| timeSetting | single winter day ⓘ |
| tone | intimate ⓘ |
| writer | Sharman Macdonald ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: The Winter Guest (play) Description of subject: The Winter Guest (play) is a stage drama by Scottish writer Sharman Macdonald that explores the complex, intimate relationship between a grieving mother and her adult daughter over the course of a single winter day in a small Scottish town.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.