The Dead Man’s Knock
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The Dead Man’s Knock is a locked-room style detective novel by John Dickson Carr featuring his iconic sleuth Dr. Gideon Fell investigating a mysterious death in an academic setting.
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| The Dead Man’s Knock canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20544025 — 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: The Dead Man’s Knock Context triple: [Dr. Gideon Fell series, hasWork, The Dead Man’s Knock]
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A.
Dead Man’s Footsteps
Dead Man’s Footsteps is a crime thriller novel by British author Peter James, featuring Detective Superintendent Roy Grace as he investigates a mystery linked to the 9/11 attacks and a long-buried secret.
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B.
Dead Man's Folly
Dead Man's Folly is a detective novel by Agatha Christie featuring Hercule Poirot investigating a murder staged during a mock "murder hunt" at an English country house.
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C.
Dead Man’s Letters
Dead Man’s Letters is a 1986 Soviet post-apocalyptic science fiction film, co-written and directed by Konstantin Lopushansky, that portrays the bleak aftermath of nuclear war through the eyes of a scientist writing letters to his missing son.
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D.
Dead Man’s Grip
Dead Man’s Grip is a crime thriller novel by British author Peter James, featuring Detective Superintendent Roy Grace investigating a deadly chain of events triggered by a fatal traffic accident.
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E.
Dead Man’s Time
Dead Man’s Time is a crime thriller novel in the Roy Grace series by British author Peter James, blending a modern murder investigation with a decades-old mystery.
- 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 Dead Man’s Knock Target entity description: The Dead Man’s Knock is a locked-room style detective novel by John Dickson Carr featuring his iconic sleuth Dr. Gideon Fell investigating a mysterious death in an academic setting.
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A.
Dead Man’s Footsteps
Dead Man’s Footsteps is a crime thriller novel by British author Peter James, featuring Detective Superintendent Roy Grace as he investigates a mystery linked to the 9/11 attacks and a long-buried secret.
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B.
Dead Man's Folly
Dead Man's Folly is a detective novel by Agatha Christie featuring Hercule Poirot investigating a murder staged during a mock "murder hunt" at an English country house.
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C.
Dead Man’s Letters
Dead Man’s Letters is a 1986 Soviet post-apocalyptic science fiction film, co-written and directed by Konstantin Lopushansky, that portrays the bleak aftermath of nuclear war through the eyes of a scientist writing letters to his missing son.
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D.
Dead Man’s Grip
Dead Man’s Grip is a crime thriller novel by British author Peter James, featuring Detective Superintendent Roy Grace investigating a deadly chain of events triggered by a fatal traffic accident.
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E.
Dead Man’s Time
Dead Man’s Time is a crime thriller novel in the Roy Grace series by British author Peter James, blending a modern murder investigation with a decades-old mystery.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.