Roderick Alleyn
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Roderick Alleyn is a gentlemanly Scotland Yard inspector and the central sleuth in Ngaio Marsh’s classic Golden Age detective novels.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Roderick Alleyn canonical | 4 |
| Inspector Roderick Alleyn | 3 |
| Inspector Roderick Alleyn is a gentleman detective | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16649119 — 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: Roderick Alleyn Context triple: [Golden Age detective fiction, hasRepresentativeDetective, Roderick Alleyn]
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A.
Albert Campion
Albert Campion is a fictional aristocratic amateur detective created by Margery Allingham, known for his wit, charm, and involvement in complex mystery cases set in early- to mid-20th-century England.
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B.
Inspector Athelney Jones
Inspector Athelney Jones is a bumbling yet self-assured Scotland Yard detective who appears as a foil to Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel "The Sign of Four."
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C.
Inspector Brackenreid
Inspector Brackenreid is a gruff but fair Victorian-era police inspector and a key supporting character in the Canadian detective series "Murdoch Mysteries."
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D.
Arthur Ibbetson
Arthur Ibbetson was a British cinematographer known for his work on notable films such as "The Bounty," "Anne of the Thousand Days," and "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory."
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E.
Thomas Lynley
Thomas Lynley is the aristocratic Scotland Yard detective protagonist of Elizabeth George’s Inspector Lynley mystery novels and their television adaptations.
- 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: Roderick Alleyn Target entity description: Roderick Alleyn is a gentlemanly Scotland Yard inspector and the central sleuth in Ngaio Marsh’s classic Golden Age detective novels.
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A.
Albert Campion
Albert Campion is a fictional aristocratic amateur detective created by Margery Allingham, known for his wit, charm, and involvement in complex mystery cases set in early- to mid-20th-century England.
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B.
Inspector Athelney Jones
Inspector Athelney Jones is a bumbling yet self-assured Scotland Yard detective who appears as a foil to Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel "The Sign of Four."
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C.
Inspector Brackenreid
Inspector Brackenreid is a gruff but fair Victorian-era police inspector and a key supporting character in the Canadian detective series "Murdoch Mysteries."
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D.
Arthur Ibbetson
Arthur Ibbetson was a British cinematographer known for his work on notable films such as "The Bounty," "Anne of the Thousand Days," and "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory."
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E.
Thomas Lynley
Thomas Lynley is the aristocratic Scotland Yard detective protagonist of Elizabeth George’s Inspector Lynley mystery novels and their television adaptations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries
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