Separate Tables
E18101
Separate Tables is a 1954 stage play by British dramatist Terence Rattigan, set in a seaside hotel and renowned for its intertwined stories of lonely, socially constrained guests.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Separate Tables canonical | 12 |
| Separate Tables (stage) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T151043 — 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: Separate Tables Context triple: [Terence Rattigan, notableWork, Separate Tables]
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A.
Tableau
Tableau is a widely used data visualization and business intelligence software platform that enables users to analyze, explore, and present data through interactive dashboards and reports.
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B.
Tax Division
The Tax Division is a component of the U.S. Department of Justice responsible for enforcing federal tax laws and handling civil and criminal tax litigation on behalf of the United States.
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C.
The Periodic Table
The Periodic Table is a memoir by Primo Levi that interweaves his experiences as a Jewish-Italian chemist and Holocaust survivor with reflections structured around elements from chemistry.
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D.
Single Large Or Several Small debate
The Single Large Or Several Small (SLOSS) debate is a long-standing discussion in conservation biology over whether biodiversity is better preserved by one large protected area or by several smaller, separate reserves.
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E.
Seventeen Provinces
The Seventeen Provinces were a loose collection of Habsburg-ruled territories in the Low Countries that roughly correspond to present-day Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of northern France and western Germany.
- 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: Separate Tables Target entity description: Separate Tables is a 1954 stage play by British dramatist Terence Rattigan, set in a seaside hotel and renowned for its intertwined stories of lonely, socially constrained guests.
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A.
Tableau
Tableau is a widely used data visualization and business intelligence software platform that enables users to analyze, explore, and present data through interactive dashboards and reports.
-
B.
Tax Division
The Tax Division is a component of the U.S. Department of Justice responsible for enforcing federal tax laws and handling civil and criminal tax litigation on behalf of the United States.
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C.
The Periodic Table
The Periodic Table is a memoir by Primo Levi that interweaves his experiences as a Jewish-Italian chemist and Holocaust survivor with reflections structured around elements from chemistry.
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D.
Single Large Or Several Small debate
The Single Large Or Several Small (SLOSS) debate is a long-standing discussion in conservation biology over whether biodiversity is better preserved by one large protected area or by several smaller, separate reserves.
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E.
Seventeen Provinces
The Seventeen Provinces were a loose collection of Habsburg-ruled territories in the Low Countries that roughly correspond to present-day Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of northern France and western Germany.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drama
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film adaptation ⓘ stage play ⓘ |
| author | Terence Rattigan ⓘ |
| basedOn | Separate Tables self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Terence Rattigan ⓘ |
| form | two one-act plays ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
social drama ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | Separate Tables (1958 film) ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Table Number Seven
ⓘ
Table by the Window ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Terence Rattigan
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surface form:
Terence Rattigan plays
|
| locationOfFirstPerformance |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| mainTheme |
class and social status
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emotional isolation ⓘ loneliness ⓘ repression ⓘ social constraint ⓘ |
| notableFor |
intertwined stories of hotel guests
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portrayal of lonely, socially constrained characters ⓘ |
| numberOfActs | 2 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1954 ⓘ |
| setting | seaside hotel ⓘ |
| writer | Terence Rattigan ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 1954 ⓘ |
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: Separate Tables Description of subject: Separate Tables is a 1954 stage play by British dramatist Terence Rattigan, set in a seaside hotel and renowned for its intertwined stories of lonely, socially constrained guests.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Separate Tables (1958 film)
this entity surface form:
Separate Tables (stage)
subject surface form:
Separate Tables and Other Plays
subject surface form:
David Niven