Dr. Gideon Fell
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Dr. Gideon Fell is a fictional, eccentric, and corpulent armchair detective famed for solving seemingly impossible “locked-room” mysteries in the classic crime novels of John Dickson Carr.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dr. Gideon Fell canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20543911 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dr. Gideon Fell Context triple: [John Dickson Carr, createdCharacter, Dr. Gideon Fell]
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A.
Dr. James Mortimer
Dr. James Mortimer is a country doctor and friend of the Baskerville family who seeks Sherlock Holmes’s help in Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles."
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B.
Charles Dexter Ward
Charles Dexter Ward is a fictional young antiquarian from Providence whose obsession with his occult ancestry leads to madness and horror in H. P. Lovecraft’s novella.
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C.
Victor Prynne
Victor Prynne is a conventional, somewhat stuffy English gentleman who serves as the new husband of Amanda and comic foil to the more volatile central couple in Noël Coward’s play "Private Lives."
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D.
Charles Lanyon
Charles Lanyon was a prominent 19th-century Irish architect known for designing many notable public buildings in Belfast and across Ulster.
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E.
Victor Comstock
Victor Comstock is a central character on the 1990s AMC television series "Remember WENN," serving as the idealistic station manager of the fictional Pittsburgh radio station WENN.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dr. Gideon Fell Target entity description: Dr. Gideon Fell is a fictional, eccentric, and corpulent armchair detective famed for solving seemingly impossible “locked-room” mysteries in the classic crime novels of John Dickson Carr.
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A.
Dr. James Mortimer
Dr. James Mortimer is a country doctor and friend of the Baskerville family who seeks Sherlock Holmes’s help in Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles."
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B.
Charles Dexter Ward
Charles Dexter Ward is a fictional young antiquarian from Providence whose obsession with his occult ancestry leads to madness and horror in H. P. Lovecraft’s novella.
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C.
Victor Prynne
Victor Prynne is a conventional, somewhat stuffy English gentleman who serves as the new husband of Amanda and comic foil to the more volatile central couple in Noël Coward’s play "Private Lives."
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D.
Charles Lanyon
Charles Lanyon was a prominent 19th-century Irish architect known for designing many notable public buildings in Belfast and across Ulster.
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E.
Victor Comstock
Victor Comstock is a central character on the 1990s AMC television series "Remember WENN," serving as the idealistic station manager of the fictional Pittsburgh radio station WENN.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.