Fingersmith
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Fingersmith is a 2005 BBC television drama adaptation of Sarah Waters’ Victorian crime novel, noted for its intricate plot and exploration of class and lesbian romance.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fingersmith canonical | 5 |
| Fingersmith (novel) | 1 |
| Fingersmith (television adaptation) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8515356 — 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: Fingersmith Context triple: [Sally Hawkins, notableWork, Fingersmith]
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A.
The Crimson Petal and the White
The Crimson Petal and the White is a British television miniseries adaptation of Michel Faber’s Victorian-set novel, following a young prostitute’s struggle for power and escape from poverty in 1870s London.
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B.
The Nightingale
The Nightingale is a 2018 Australian period thriller film directed by Jennifer Kent, known for its brutal depiction of colonial violence and its critical acclaim on the international festival circuit.
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C.
Atonement
"Atonement" is an instrumental track from the Season 5 soundtrack of the television series Game of Thrones, composed by Ramin Djawadi.
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D.
Atonement
Atonement is the Christian theological concept describing how Jesus Christ’s life, death, and resurrection reconcile humanity with God and address the problem of sin.
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E.
The Go-Between
The Go-Between is a 1971 British romantic drama film, directed by Joseph Losey and based on L.P. Hartley’s novel, about a young boy drawn into a secret affair between an upper-class woman and a farmer in Edwardian England.
- 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: Fingersmith Target entity description: Fingersmith is a 2005 BBC television drama adaptation of Sarah Waters’ Victorian crime novel, noted for its intricate plot and exploration of class and lesbian romance.
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A.
The Crimson Petal and the White
The Crimson Petal and the White is a British television miniseries adaptation of Michel Faber’s Victorian-set novel, following a young prostitute’s struggle for power and escape from poverty in 1870s London.
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B.
The Nightingale
The Nightingale is a 2018 Australian period thriller film directed by Jennifer Kent, known for its brutal depiction of colonial violence and its critical acclaim on the international festival circuit.
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C.
Atonement
Atonement is the Christian theological concept describing how Jesus Christ’s life, death, and resurrection reconcile humanity with God and address the problem of sin.
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D.
Atonement
"Atonement" is an instrumental track from the Season 5 soundtrack of the television series Game of Thrones, composed by Ramin Djawadi.
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E.
The Go-Between
The Go-Between is a 1971 British romantic drama film, directed by Joseph Losey and based on L.P. Hartley’s novel, about a young boy drawn into a secret affair between an upper-class woman and a farmer in Edwardian England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
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television adaptation ⓘ television drama ⓘ |
| adaptationOfGenre | Victorian crime novel ⓘ |
| author | Sarah Waters ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Fingersmith (novel)
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linked to:
Fingersmith
|
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
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crime fiction ⓘ historical fiction ⓘ period drama ⓘ romantic drama ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
complex plotting
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depiction of lesbian romance ⓘ exploration of class ⓘ intricate plot ⓘ lesbian themes ⓘ |
| originallyAired | 2005 ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | BBC One ⓘ |
| productionCompany | BBC ⓘ |
| settingPlace |
England
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England ⓘ |
| settingTime |
Victorian era
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Victorian era ⓘ |
| title | Fingersmith ⓘ |
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: Fingersmith Description of subject: Fingersmith is a 2005 BBC television drama adaptation of Sarah Waters’ Victorian crime novel, noted for its intricate plot and exploration of class and lesbian romance.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Fingersmith
subject linked to:
Fingersmith
linked to: Fingersmith
subject linked to:
Fingersmith
subject linked to:
Sally