The King Is Dead
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The King Is Dead is a 1952 Ellery Queen mystery novel featuring the detective investigating a seemingly impossible, locked-room–style shooting on a tycoon’s heavily guarded private island.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The King Is Dead canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20663408 — 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 King Is Dead Context triple: [Ellery Queen, notableWork, The King Is Dead]
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A.
The King Is Dead
The King Is Dead is an early Family Guy episode centered on Lois becoming the director of a community theater production of "The King and I," leading to escalating creative clashes with Peter.
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B.
The King Is Dead!
The King Is Dead! is an Australian dark comedy film written and directed by Rolf de Heer about a suburban couple whose lives unravel after they get nightmare neighbors.
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C.
Message from the King
Message from the King is a 2016 neo-noir action thriller film in which Chadwick Boseman stars as a South African man who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his sister’s death.
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D.
George Is Dead
George Is Dead is a darkly comic one-act play by Elaine May that explores class tensions and emotional detachment when a wealthy, self-absorbed woman intrudes on the life of her working-class childhood caretaker.
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E.
The King
The King is a conman and one of the two unscrupulous drifters who travel with Huck and Jim, posing as royalty to swindle people in Mark Twain’s "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
- 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 King Is Dead Target entity description: The King Is Dead is a 1952 Ellery Queen mystery novel featuring the detective investigating a seemingly impossible, locked-room–style shooting on a tycoon’s heavily guarded private island.
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A.
The King Is Dead
The King Is Dead is an early Family Guy episode centered on Lois becoming the director of a community theater production of "The King and I," leading to escalating creative clashes with Peter.
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B.
The King Is Dead!
The King Is Dead! is an Australian dark comedy film written and directed by Rolf de Heer about a suburban couple whose lives unravel after they get nightmare neighbors.
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C.
Message from the King
Message from the King is a 2016 neo-noir action thriller film in which Chadwick Boseman stars as a South African man who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his sister’s death.
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D.
George Is Dead
George Is Dead is a darkly comic one-act play by Elaine May that explores class tensions and emotional detachment when a wealthy, self-absorbed woman intrudes on the life of her working-class childhood caretaker.
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E.
The King
The King is a conman and one of the two unscrupulous drifters who travel with Huck and Jim, posing as royalty to swindle people in Mark Twain’s "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.