The Conjure-Man Dies
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The Conjure-Man Dies is a 1932 Harlem-set mystery novel by Rudolph Fisher, often cited as the first published detective novel by an African American author.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Conjure-Man Dies canonical | 1 |
| The Conjure-Man Dies (stage adaptation) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12895517 — 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 Conjure-Man Dies Context triple: [Rudolph Fisher, notableWork, The Conjure-Man Dies]
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A.
Conjure Wife
Conjure Wife is a 1943 dark fantasy novel by Fritz Leiber that explores the hidden world of witchcraft influencing academic life and male success.
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B.
The Black Thing
The Black Thing is a malevolent cosmic force embodying darkness and evil that threatens the universe in Madeleine L’Engle’s novel *A Wrinkle in Time*.
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C.
The Howling Man
"The Howling Man" is a memorable episode of the classic anthology series The Twilight Zone, known for its eerie moral tale about a traveler who unwittingly releases the Devil from captivity.
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D.
The Black Devil
The Black Devil was the fearsome nickname of Erich Hartmann, the German World War II fighter ace who remains the highest-scoring fighter pilot in history.
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E.
An Evil Spirit
"An Evil Spirit" is a novel by British author Richard Pryce, best known as one of his more prominent works in late 19th-century fiction.
- 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 Conjure-Man Dies Target entity description: The Conjure-Man Dies is a 1932 Harlem-set mystery novel by Rudolph Fisher, often cited as the first published detective novel by an African American author.
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A.
Conjure Wife
Conjure Wife is a 1943 dark fantasy novel by Fritz Leiber that explores the hidden world of witchcraft influencing academic life and male success.
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B.
The Black Thing
The Black Thing is a malevolent cosmic force embodying darkness and evil that threatens the universe in Madeleine L’Engle’s novel *A Wrinkle in Time*.
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C.
The Howling Man
"The Howling Man" is a memorable episode of the classic anthology series The Twilight Zone, known for its eerie moral tale about a traveler who unwittingly releases the Devil from captivity.
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D.
The Black Devil
The Black Devil was the fearsome nickname of Erich Hartmann, the German World War II fighter ace who remains the highest-scoring fighter pilot in history.
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E.
An Evil Spirit
"An Evil Spirit" is a novel by British author Richard Pryce, best known as one of his more prominent works in late 19th-century fiction.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
detective novel
ⓘ
mystery novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| adaptationMedium | theatre ⓘ |
| author | Rudolph Fisher ⓘ |
| authorBirthName | Rudolph Fisher ⓘ |
| authorEthnicity | African American ⓘ |
| authorProfession | Rudolph Fisher – physician and writer ⓘ |
| characterOccupation |
Dr. John Archer – physician
ⓘ
Perry Dart – Harlem police detective ⓘ |
| characterRole | N'Gana Frimbo – conjure-man and victim ⓘ |
| cityOfSetting | New York City ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| criticalReception | recognized as a landmark in African American crime fiction ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | N'Gana Frimbo ⓘ |
| firstEditionYear | 1932 ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
detective fiction ⓘ mystery fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
The Conjure-Man Dies (stage adaptation)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Conjure-Man Dies
|
| hasReprint | reissued by various publishers in late 20th century ⓘ |
| hasSubgenre |
locked-room mystery elements
ⓘ
police procedural elements ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
African American urban life
ⓘ
crime investigation ⓘ race and society ⓘ rationalism versus superstition ⓘ |
| isInCanonOf |
African American literature
ⓘ
American detective fiction ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Harlem Renaissance literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Dr. John Archer
ⓘ
Perry Dart ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | prose ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the first detective novels by an African American author ⓘ |
| originalMediaType | print ⓘ |
| placeOfSetting | Harlem ⓘ |
| protagonistEthnicity | African American ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1932 ⓘ |
| publisher | Covici-Friede ⓘ |
| settingCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| settingDemographicFocus | African American community ⓘ |
| settingNeighborhood | Harlem ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | Harlem Renaissance ⓘ |
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 Conjure-Man Dies Description of subject: The Conjure-Man Dies is a 1932 Harlem-set mystery novel by Rudolph Fisher, often cited as the first published detective novel by an African American author.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Conjure-Man Dies