The Three Coffins
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The Three Coffins is a classic 1935 locked-room mystery novel by John Dickson Carr, renowned for its intricate impossible-crime puzzle and metafictional "locked-room lecture."
All labels observed (1)
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| The Three Coffins canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20543903 — 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 Three Coffins Context triple: [John Dickson Carr, notableWork, The Three Coffins]
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A.
The Chained Coffin and Others
The Chained Coffin and Others is a Hellboy comics collection by Mike Mignola that gathers several short horror stories expanding the series’ mythos and folklore.
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B.
The Winding Sheet
The Winding Sheet is a 1990 alternative rock album by American singer-songwriter Mark Lanegan, noted for its dark, stripped-down sound and for launching his solo career beyond his work with Screaming Trees.
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C.
Tomb of the Dead Man
The Tomb of the Dead Man is an Etruscan burial chamber on Monterozzi hill near Tarquinia, Italy, notable for its ancient funerary architecture and wall paintings.
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D.
The Corpse
The Corpse is a Hellboy short story by Mike Mignola that blends Irish folklore with dark humor as Hellboy attempts to bury a restless corpse to fulfill a supernatural bargain.
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E.
The Coffin-Maker’s Garden
The Coffin-Maker’s Garden is a dark, twist-filled crime thriller novel by Scottish author Stuart MacBride, featuring his trademark blend of gritty investigation and macabre atmosphere.
- 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 Three Coffins Target entity description: The Three Coffins is a classic 1935 locked-room mystery novel by John Dickson Carr, renowned for its intricate impossible-crime puzzle and metafictional "locked-room lecture."
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A.
The Chained Coffin and Others
The Chained Coffin and Others is a Hellboy comics collection by Mike Mignola that gathers several short horror stories expanding the series’ mythos and folklore.
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B.
The Winding Sheet
The Winding Sheet is a 1990 alternative rock album by American singer-songwriter Mark Lanegan, noted for its dark, stripped-down sound and for launching his solo career beyond his work with Screaming Trees.
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C.
Tomb of the Dead Man
The Tomb of the Dead Man is an Etruscan burial chamber on Monterozzi hill near Tarquinia, Italy, notable for its ancient funerary architecture and wall paintings.
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D.
The Corpse
The Corpse is a Hellboy short story by Mike Mignola that blends Irish folklore with dark humor as Hellboy attempts to bury a restless corpse to fulfill a supernatural bargain.
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E.
The Coffin-Maker’s Garden
The Coffin-Maker’s Garden is a dark, twist-filled crime thriller novel by Scottish author Stuart MacBride, featuring his trademark blend of gritty investigation and macabre atmosphere.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.