The Lady in the Lake
E414984
The Lady in the Lake is a 1943 hardboiled detective novel by Raymond Chandler featuring private investigator Philip Marlowe as he unravels a complex mystery surrounding a missing woman and a body found in a remote lake.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Lady in the Lake canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4126697 — 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 Lady in the Lake Context triple: [Philip Marlowe, appearsIn, The Lady in the Lake]
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A.
A Blueprint for Murder
A Blueprint for Murder is a 1953 American film noir thriller in which Gary Merrill stars in a tense story of suspected poisoning and inheritance-driven murder.
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B.
And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None is a classic mystery novel by Agatha Christie in which ten strangers are lured to an isolated island and killed one by one according to a sinister nursery rhyme.
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C.
Death on the Nile (novel)
Death on the Nile (novel) is a 1937 detective story by Agatha Christie featuring Hercule Poirot investigating a murder during a luxurious cruise along the Nile River in Egypt.
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D.
A Slight Case of Murder
A Slight Case of Murder is a 1938 crime-comedy film starring Edward G. Robinson as a reformed bootlegger whose attempts to go straight lead to a series of comic mishaps.
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E.
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is a gothic horror novel by H. P. Lovecraft about a young man’s obsession with his necromancer ancestor and the dark secrets he uncovers in Providence, Rhode Island.
- 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 Lady in the Lake Target entity description: The Lady in the Lake is a 1943 hardboiled detective novel by Raymond Chandler featuring private investigator Philip Marlowe as he unravels a complex mystery surrounding a missing woman and a body found in a remote lake.
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A.
A Blueprint for Murder
A Blueprint for Murder is a 1953 American film noir thriller in which Gary Merrill stars in a tense story of suspected poisoning and inheritance-driven murder.
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B.
And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None is a classic mystery novel by Agatha Christie in which ten strangers are lured to an isolated island and killed one by one according to a sinister nursery rhyme.
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C.
Death on the Nile (novel)
Death on the Nile (novel) is a 1937 detective story by Agatha Christie featuring Hercule Poirot investigating a murder during a luxurious cruise along the Nile River in Egypt.
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D.
A Slight Case of Murder
A Slight Case of Murder is a 1938 crime-comedy film starring Edward G. Robinson as a reformed bootlegger whose attempts to go straight lead to a series of comic mishaps.
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E.
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is a gothic horror novel by H. P. Lovecraft about a young man’s obsession with his necromancer ancestor and the dark secrets he uncovers in Providence, Rhode Island.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
detective novel
ⓘ
hardboiled fiction ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
Lady in the Lake
ⓘ
surface form:
Lady in the Lake (1947 film)
Lady in the Lake ⓘ
surface form:
Lady in the Lake (radio adaptation)
|
| author | Raymond Chandler ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
corruption
ⓘ
deception ⓘ identity ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| featuresCharacter | Philip Marlowe ⓘ |
| follows | The High Window ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
hardboiled detective fiction ⓘ mystery fiction ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTitle | Lady in the Lake ⓘ |
| hasBodyDiscoveredIn | lake ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception | generally positive ⓘ |
| hasDetectiveFigure | Philip Marlowe ⓘ |
| hasDetectiveSeriesNumber | fourth Philip Marlowe novel ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
hardcover
ⓘ
paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | later noir detective fiction ⓘ |
| hasMissingPersonCase | yes ⓘ |
| hasMurderMystery | yes ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter | unidentified woman in the lake ⓘ |
| includesElement |
small-town corruption
ⓘ
urban crime ⓘ |
| isPartOf | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | American hardboiled novel ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | noir ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Philip Marlowe ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableFor | innovative plotting compared to earlier Marlowe novels ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
Philip Marlowe
ⓘ
surface form:
Philip Marlowe series
|
| precedes | The Little Sister ⓘ |
| protagonistName | Philip Marlowe ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | private investigator ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1943 ⓘ |
| publisher | Alfred A. Knopf ⓘ |
| setIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Los Angeles ⓘ |
| settingFeature | remote mountain lake ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | early 1940s ⓘ |
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: The Lady in the Lake Description of subject: The Lady in the Lake is a 1943 hardboiled detective novel by Raymond Chandler featuring private investigator Philip Marlowe as he unravels a complex mystery surrounding a missing woman and a body found in a remote lake.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.