Edgar Box
E326670
Edgar Box is the crime-fiction pseudonym under which American writer Gore Vidal published a series of mystery novels in the 1950s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edgar Box canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3101289 — 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: Edgar Box Context triple: [Gore Vidal, pseudonym, Edgar Box]
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A.
Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett was a prominent English novelist and playwright best known for his realistic depictions of provincial life in the Potteries during the early 20th century.
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B.
Malcolm Bradbury
Malcolm Bradbury was a British novelist, critic, and academic best known for his satirical campus novels and influential role in modern English literature.
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C.
Clarence Geldart
Clarence Geldart was a Canadian-born character actor of the silent and early sound film era who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions in the 1910s and 1920s.
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D.
Patrick Hamilton
Patrick Hamilton is the Scottish novelist and playwright best known for works like "Rope" and "Gas Light," which inspired influential stage and film adaptations.
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E.
Geoffrey Streatfeild
Geoffrey Streatfeild is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in productions such as "The Thick of It" and "Spooks."
- 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: Edgar Box Target entity description: Edgar Box is the crime-fiction pseudonym under which American writer Gore Vidal published a series of mystery novels in the 1950s.
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A.
Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett was a prominent English novelist and playwright best known for his realistic depictions of provincial life in the Potteries during the early 20th century.
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B.
Malcolm Bradbury
Malcolm Bradbury was a British novelist, critic, and academic best known for his satirical campus novels and influential role in modern English literature.
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C.
Clarence Geldart
Clarence Geldart was a Canadian-born character actor of the silent and early sound film era who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions in the 1910s and 1920s.
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D.
Patrick Hamilton
Patrick Hamilton is the Scottish novelist and playwright best known for works like "Rope" and "Gas Light," which inspired influential stage and film adaptations.
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E.
Geoffrey Streatfeild
Geoffrey Streatfeild is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in productions such as "The Thick of It" and "Spooks."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary pseudonym
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pseudonym ⓘ |
| activeInDecade | 1950s ⓘ |
| characterCreated | Peter Cutler Sargeant II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | detective fiction ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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mystery fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Gore Vidal ⓘ |
| hasSeries | Peter Cutler Sargeant II series ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | novel ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | series of mystery novels published in the 1950s ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Death Before Bedtime
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Death Likes It Hot ⓘ Death in the Fifth Position ⓘ |
| occupation |
crime fiction writer
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novelist ⓘ |
| pseudonymOf | Gore Vidal ⓘ |
| publicationPeriod | 1950s ⓘ |
| realName | Gore Vidal ⓘ |
| usedBy | Gore Vidal ⓘ |
| usedFor |
crime novels
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mystery novels ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Edgar Box Description of subject: Edgar Box is the crime-fiction pseudonym under which American writer Gore Vidal published a series of mystery novels in the 1950s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.