The House of Mirth (1981 television serial)
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The House of Mirth (1981 television serial) is a British TV adaptation of Edith Wharton’s novel, depicting the tragic social downfall of Lily Bart in New York high society at the turn of the 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The House of Mirth (1981 television serial) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12889713 — 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)
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Target entity: The House of Mirth (1981 television serial) Context triple: [Eleanor Bron, notableWork, The House of Mirth (1981 television serial)]
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The House of Mirth (stage production)
The House of Mirth (stage production) is a theatrical adaptation of Edith Wharton’s novel about New York socialite Lily Bart’s tragic struggle against the constraints of Gilded Age high society.
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B.
House of Mirth
House of Mirth is a 2000 period drama film adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel, starring Gillian Anderson as socialite Lily Bart in Gilded Age New York.
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C.
The Case of the Silk Stocking
The Case of the Silk Stocking is a 2004 British television crime drama and sequel to The Murder Room, featuring an investigation into a series of murders of young women in Edwardian London.
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D.
Lily Bart in The House of Mirth
Lily Bart in *The House of Mirth* is the tragic, socially ambitious New York socialite at the center of Edith Wharton’s novel, whose struggle between desire for luxury and need for independence leads to her downfall.
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E.
A Pair of Silk Stockings
A Pair of Silk Stockings is a 1918 silent comedy film starring Constance Talmadge, known for its lighthearted take on romance and social class.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The House of Mirth (1981 television serial) Target entity description: The House of Mirth (1981 television serial) is a British TV adaptation of Edith Wharton’s novel, depicting the tragic social downfall of Lily Bart in New York high society at the turn of the 20th century.
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A.
The House of Mirth (stage production)
The House of Mirth (stage production) is a theatrical adaptation of Edith Wharton’s novel about New York socialite Lily Bart’s tragic struggle against the constraints of Gilded Age high society.
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B.
House of Mirth
House of Mirth is a 2000 period drama film adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel, starring Gillian Anderson as socialite Lily Bart in Gilded Age New York.
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C.
The Case of the Silk Stocking
The Case of the Silk Stocking is a 2004 British television crime drama and sequel to The Murder Room, featuring an investigation into a series of murders of young women in Edwardian London.
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D.
Lily Bart in The House of Mirth
Lily Bart in *The House of Mirth* is the tragic, socially ambitious New York socialite at the center of Edith Wharton’s novel, whose struggle between desire for luxury and need for independence leads to her downfall.
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E.
A Pair of Silk Stockings
A Pair of Silk Stockings is a 1918 silent comedy film starring Constance Talmadge, known for its lighthearted take on romance and social class.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
television adaptation
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television series ⓘ |
| adaptationOfGenre | novel ⓘ |
| basedOn | The House of Mirth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Edith Wharton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBroadcast | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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period drama ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Lily Bart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | BBC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionType | television serial ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1981 ⓘ |
| settingLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| settingTime | turn of the 20th century ⓘ |
| sourceMaterialPublicationYear | 1905 ⓘ |
| theme |
New York high society
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social downfall ⓘ |
| title | The House of Mirth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: The House of Mirth (1981 television serial) Description of subject: The House of Mirth (1981 television serial) is a British TV adaptation of Edith Wharton’s novel, depicting the tragic social downfall of Lily Bart in New York high society at the turn of the 20th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.