The Jewel That Was Ours
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The Jewel That Was Ours is a crime novel in Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse series, featuring a complex murder investigation intertwined with the theft of a valuable historical artifact in Oxford.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Jewel That Was Ours canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3949500 — 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 Jewel That Was Ours Context triple: [Colin Dexter, notableWork, The Jewel That Was Ours]
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A.
Daughter of the East
Daughter of the East is the autobiography of Pakistani politician and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, chronicling her life, political struggles, and family legacy.
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B.
The Telling
The Telling is a science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin set in her Hainish universe, exploring themes of cultural suppression, storytelling, and the clash between tradition and authoritarian modernity.
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C.
The Cross of Snow
The Cross of Snow is a sonnet by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that mournfully commemorates his wife Frances Appleton and reflects on enduring grief through the metaphor of a snow-filled mountain ravine.
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D.
Master of the Children
Master of the Children is the title historically given to the director responsible for training and overseeing the boy choristers of the Chapel Royal in the English royal household.
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E.
The Golden Threshold
The Golden Threshold is a celebrated early 20th-century poetry collection by Indian poet Sarojini Naidu, noted for its lyrical style and evocation of Indian life and landscapes.
- 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 Jewel That Was Ours Target entity description: The Jewel That Was Ours is a crime novel in Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse series, featuring a complex murder investigation intertwined with the theft of a valuable historical artifact in Oxford.
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A.
Daughter of the East
Daughter of the East is the autobiography of Pakistani politician and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, chronicling her life, political struggles, and family legacy.
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B.
The Telling
The Telling is a science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin set in her Hainish universe, exploring themes of cultural suppression, storytelling, and the clash between tradition and authoritarian modernity.
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C.
The Cross of Snow
The Cross of Snow is a sonnet by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that mournfully commemorates his wife Frances Appleton and reflects on enduring grief through the metaphor of a snow-filled mountain ravine.
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D.
Master of the Children
Master of the Children is the title historically given to the director responsible for training and overseeing the boy choristers of the Chapel Royal in the English royal household.
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E.
The Golden Threshold
The Golden Threshold is a celebrated early 20th-century poetry collection by Indian poet Sarojini Naidu, noted for its lyrical style and evocation of Indian life and landscapes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Inspector Morse novel
ⓘ
crime novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
Inspector Morse
ⓘ
surface form:
The Jewel That Was Ours (Inspector Morse TV episode)
|
| author | Colin Dexter ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresProtagonist | Inspector Morse ⓘ |
| featuresSupportingCharacter |
Sergeant Robbie Lewis
ⓘ
surface form:
Sergeant Lewis
|
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
detective fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | Inspector Morse television series ⓘ |
| hasCrimeType |
murder
ⓘ
theft ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
deception
ⓘ
justice ⓘ murder investigation ⓘ theft of historical artifact ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | late 20th century literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Inspector Morse
ⓘ
Sergeant Robbie Lewis ⓘ
surface form:
Sergeant Lewis
|
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
complex murder case
ⓘ
stolen valuable jewel ⓘ |
| partOf | British detective literature ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1991 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Macmillan Publishers
ⓘ
surface form:
Macmillan
|
| series | Inspector Morse series ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Oxford ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Jewel That Was Ours Description of subject: The Jewel That Was Ours is a crime novel in Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse series, featuring a complex murder investigation intertwined with the theft of a valuable historical artifact in Oxford.
Referenced by (3)
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