Muriel Glass
E1010180
Muriel Glass is the somewhat self-absorbed fiancée and later wife of Seymour Glass in J.D. Salinger’s Glass family stories.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Muriel Glass canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12875361 — 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: Muriel Glass Context triple: [Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction, hasCharacter, Muriel Glass]
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A.
Bessie Glass
Bessie Glass is the practical, anxious, and often overbearing matriarch of the Glass family in J.D. Salinger’s interconnected stories.
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B.
Merle Glass
Merle Glass is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Glass.
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C.
Joan Glass
Joan Glass is a notable individual recognized for her contributions and public presence associated with the surname Glass.
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D.
Elaine Benson
Elaine Benson was an American art dealer and gallery owner known for her influential role in the Hamptons art scene.
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E.
Babette Gladney
Babette Gladney is a central figure in Don DeLillo’s novel "White Noise," portrayed as the anxious, warm-hearted wife of protagonist Jack Gladney whose fear of death and secret use of an experimental drug drive much of the story’s emotional tension.
- 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: Muriel Glass Target entity description: Muriel Glass is the somewhat self-absorbed fiancée and later wife of Seymour Glass in J.D. Salinger’s Glass family stories.
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A.
Bessie Glass
Bessie Glass is the practical, anxious, and often overbearing matriarch of the Glass family in J.D. Salinger’s interconnected stories.
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B.
Merle Glass
Merle Glass is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Glass.
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C.
Joan Glass
Joan Glass is a notable individual recognized for her contributions and public presence associated with the surname Glass.
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D.
Elaine Benson
Elaine Benson was an American art dealer and gallery owner known for her influential role in the Hamptons art scene.
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E.
Babette Gladney
Babette Gladney is a central figure in Don DeLillo’s novel "White Noise," portrayed as the anxious, warm-hearted wife of protagonist Jack Gladney whose fear of death and secret use of an experimental drug drive much of the story’s emotional tension.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
"A Perfect Day for Bananafish"
ⓘ
linked to:
A Perfect Day for Bananafish
|
| appearsInSeries | Glass family stories ⓘ |
| characterIn | Nine Stories ⓘ |
| createdBy | J. D. Salinger ⓘ |
| describedAs |
materialistic
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self-absorbed ⓘ |
| familyName | Glass ⓘ |
| fiancéeOf | Seymour Glass ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Glass family universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Glass family saga
|
| firstPublicationYear | 1948 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn |
"A Perfect Day for Bananafish"
ⓘ
linked to:
A Perfect Day for Bananafish
|
| genre | literary fiction ⓘ |
| hasRelativeByMarriage |
Boo Boo Glass
ⓘ
Buddy Glass ⓘ Franny Glass ⓘ Waker Glass ⓘ Walt Glass ⓘ Zooey Glass ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married to Seymour Glass ⓘ |
| medium | short story ⓘ |
| nationality | American (fictional) ⓘ |
| spouse | Seymour Glass ⓘ |
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: Muriel Glass Description of subject: Muriel Glass is the somewhat self-absorbed fiancée and later wife of Seymour Glass in J.D. Salinger’s Glass family stories.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.