The Blade Artist
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The Blade Artist is a novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh that revisits the character Francis Begbie from Trainspotting, exploring his violent past and attempts at reinvention in a new life abroad.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Blade Artist (novel) | 3 |
| The Blade Artist canonical | 1 |
| The Blade Artist (Francis Begbie novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10488348 — 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: The Blade Artist Context triple: [Irvine Welsh, notableWork, The Blade Artist]
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A.
Blades
Blades is the short name for the Oakville Blades, a junior ice hockey team based in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.
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B.
Blade
Blade is the superhero-style mascot character of the Gold Coast Titans rugby league team in Australia's National Rugby League.
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C.
Blade
Blade is Laravel’s lightweight, PHP-based templating engine that lets developers write clean, reusable view templates with simple, expressive syntax.
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D.
Blade
Blade is a Marvel Comics vampire hunter and half-vampire antihero known for battling supernatural threats alongside teams like the Avengers.
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E.
The Scarlet Blade
The Scarlet Blade is a 1963 British historical adventure film set during the English Civil War, known for its swashbuckling action and cast including Jennifer Jayne and Oliver Reed.
- 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: The Blade Artist Target entity description: The Blade Artist is a novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh that revisits the character Francis Begbie from Trainspotting, exploring his violent past and attempts at reinvention in a new life abroad.
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A.
Blades
Blades is the short name for the Oakville Blades, a junior ice hockey team based in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.
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B.
Blade
Blade is a Marvel Comics vampire hunter and half-vampire antihero known for battling supernatural threats alongside teams like the Avengers.
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C.
Blade
Blade is the superhero-style mascot character of the Gold Coast Titans rugby league team in Australia's National Rugby League.
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D.
Blade
Blade is Laravel’s lightweight, PHP-based templating engine that lets developers write clean, reusable view templates with simple, expressive syntax.
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E.
The Scarlet Blade
The Scarlet Blade is a 1963 British historical adventure film set during the English Civil War, known for its swashbuckling action and cast including Jennifer Jayne and Oliver Reed.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Irvine Welsh ⓘ |
| authorNationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| basedOnCharacterFromWork |
Trainspotting
ⓘ
linked to:
Trainspotting (novel)
|
| characterOriginatesFrom |
Trainspotting
ⓘ
linked to:
Trainspotting (novel)
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| countryOfOrigin | Scotland ⓘ |
| exploresTheme |
identity
ⓘ
redemption ⓘ reinvention ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Francis Begbie ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
psychological fiction ⓘ |
| hasProtagonistPast | violent past ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Francis Begbie ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | Francis Begbie’s past and present life ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
Trainspotting series
ⓘ
linked to:
Trainspotting film series
|
| protagonistAttempts | personal reinvention ⓘ |
| protagonistNewLifeLocation | abroad ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2016 ⓘ |
| publisher | Jonathan Cape ⓘ |
| setting |
Scotland
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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 Blade Artist Description of subject: The Blade Artist is a novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh that revisits the character Francis Begbie from Trainspotting, exploring his violent past and attempts at reinvention in a new life abroad.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Blade Artist
linked to: The Blade Artist
linked to: The Blade Artist