A Murder is Announced
E733601
A Murder is Announced is a classic Miss Marple detective novel by Agatha Christie, centered on a village newspaper notice that chillingly predicts the time and place of an impending murder.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A Murder is Announced canonical | 4 |
| A Murder Is Announced | 1 |
| A Murder Is Announced (stage adaptation) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8448199 — 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: A Murder is Announced Context triple: [Agatha Christie, notableWork, A Murder is Announced]
-
A.
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.
-
B.
The Case of the Postponed Murder
The Case of the Postponed Murder is a Perry Mason detective novel by Erle Stanley Gardner featuring the famed defense attorney unraveling a complex murder plot.
-
C.
Experiment in Murder
Experiment in Murder is a crime novel set within the Capital Crimes series universe, following a high-stakes investigation into a deadly and intricately planned killing.
-
D.
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.
-
E.
It Had to Be Murder
"It Had to Be Murder" is a 1942 short story by Cornell Woolrich about a man confined to his apartment who becomes convinced, through obsessive observation of his neighbors, that one of them has committed murder.
- 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: A Murder is Announced Target entity description: A Murder is Announced is a classic Miss Marple detective novel by Agatha Christie, centered on a village newspaper notice that chillingly predicts the time and place of an impending murder.
-
A.
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.
-
B.
The Case of the Postponed Murder
The Case of the Postponed Murder is a Perry Mason detective novel by Erle Stanley Gardner featuring the famed defense attorney unraveling a complex murder plot.
-
C.
Experiment in Murder
Experiment in Murder is a crime novel set within the Capital Crimes series universe, following a high-stakes investigation into a deadly and intricately planned killing.
-
D.
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.
-
E.
It Had to Be Murder
"It Had to Be Murder" is a 1942 short story by Cornell Woolrich about a man confined to his apartment who becomes convinced, through obsessive observation of his neighbors, that one of them has committed murder.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Miss Marple novel
ⓘ
crime fiction work ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
radio drama
ⓘ
stage play ⓘ television drama ⓘ |
| author | Agatha Christie ⓘ |
| centralEvent | murder foretold in a village newspaper ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coverArtist | notably varied by edition ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Dora Bunner
ⓘ
Inspector Craddock ⓘ Jane Marple ⓘ
linked to:
Miss Marple
Letitia Blacklock ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| followedBy | They Do It with Mirrors ⓘ |
| genre |
detective fiction
ⓘ
mystery fiction ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception | considered one of the classic Miss Marple mysteries ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780007120840 ⓘ |
| hasMotiveTheme | inheritance and greed ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
deception
ⓘ
identity ⓘ post-war social change ⓘ secrets in small communities ⓘ |
| includedIn | collected editions of Miss Marple novels ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | whodunit ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Miss Marple ⓘ |
| mediaType |
hardcover
ⓘ
paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
portrayal of English village life
ⓘ
use of a newspaper notice to announce a murder in advance ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise |
Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple stories
ⓘ
linked to:
Agatha Christie's Marple
|
| plotDevice | newspaper announcement of a murder ⓘ |
| precededBy | The Body in the Library ⓘ |
| protagonistRole | amateur sleuth ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1950 ⓘ |
| publisher | Collins Crime Club ⓘ |
| series | Miss Marple ⓘ |
| setting | Chipping Cleghorn ⓘ |
| settingType | fictional English village ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | post-World War II England ⓘ |
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: A Murder is Announced Description of subject: A Murder is Announced is a classic Miss Marple detective novel by Agatha Christie, centered on a village newspaper notice that chillingly predicts the time and place of an impending murder.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: A Murder is Announced
subject linked to:
fictional village of St Mary Mead
linked to: A Murder is Announced