Les Glass
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Les Glass is the patriarch of J.D. Salinger’s fictional Glass family, a former vaudeville performer and radio quiz-show host who appears in several of his interconnected stories.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Les Glass canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12875301 — 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: Les Glass Context triple: [Franny and Zooey, featuresCharacter, Les Glass]
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A.
Leslie Glass
Leslie Glass is an American author best known for her crime and mystery novels, particularly the April Woo detective series.
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B.
Jack Glass
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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C.
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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D.
David Glasser
David Glasser is an American film and television producer and executive known for his work on high-profile projects including the documentary series "Time: The Kalief Browder Story."
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E.
Ben Glass
Ben Glass is a notable individual whose surname is Glass, recognized for achievements significant enough to distinguish him among others with the same last name.
- 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: Les Glass Target entity description: Les Glass is the patriarch of J.D. Salinger’s fictional Glass family, a former vaudeville performer and radio quiz-show host who appears in several of his interconnected stories.
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A.
Leslie Glass
Leslie Glass is an American author best known for her crime and mystery novels, particularly the April Woo detective series.
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B.
Jack Glass
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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C.
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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D.
David Glasser
David Glasser is an American film and television producer and executive known for his work on high-profile projects including the documentary series "Time: The Kalief Browder Story."
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E.
Ben Glass
Ben Glass is a notable individual whose surname is Glass, recognized for achievements significant enough to distinguish him among others with the same last name.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Franny
ⓘ
linked to:
Franny Glass
Nine Stories ⓘ Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters ⓘ Seymour: An Introduction ⓘ Zooey ⓘ
linked to:
Zooey Glass
|
| child |
Boo Boo Glass
ⓘ
Buddy Glass ⓘ Franny Glass ⓘ Seymour Glass ⓘ Waker Glass ⓘ Walt Glass ⓘ Zooey Glass ⓘ |
| creator | J. D. Salinger ⓘ |
| familyName | Glass ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Nine Stories ⓘ |
| genre | literary fiction ⓘ |
| medium |
novellas
ⓘ
short stories ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Glass family
ⓘ
linked to:
Glass family cycle
|
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
father of seven gifted children
ⓘ
former vaudeville background ⓘ |
| occupation |
radio quiz-show host
ⓘ
vaudeville performer ⓘ |
| roleInFamily | patriarch ⓘ |
| spouse | Bessie Glass ⓘ |
| universe | Glass family cycle ⓘ |
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: Les Glass Description of subject: Les Glass is the patriarch of J.D. Salinger’s fictional Glass family, a former vaudeville performer and radio quiz-show host who appears in several of his interconnected stories.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.