The Adventure of the Illustrious Client
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"The Adventure of the Illustrious Client" is a Sherlock Holmes short story by Arthur Conan Doyle in which Holmes confronts a dangerous Austrian nobleman to protect a young woman from a disastrous marriage.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Adventure of the Illustrious Client canonical | 2 |
| The Adventure of the Cheap Flat | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10154546 — 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 Adventure of the Illustrious Client Context triple: [The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, containsStory, The Adventure of the Illustrious Client]
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A.
The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk
"The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk" is a Sherlock Holmes short story by Arthur Conan Doyle in which Holmes investigates a suspicious job offer made to a recently unemployed clerk, uncovering a criminal scheme.
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B.
The Adventure of the Priory School
The Adventure of the Priory School is a Sherlock Holmes short story by Arthur Conan Doyle in which Holmes investigates the mysterious disappearance of a schoolmaster and a nobleman’s son from an exclusive boarding school.
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C.
The Adventure of the Norwood Builder
The Adventure of the Norwood Builder is one of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes short stories, featuring Holmes and Dr. Watson investigating a seemingly incriminating disappearance and suspected murder in the London suburb of Norwood.
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D.
The Adventure of the Second Stain
"The Adventure of the Second Stain" is one of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes short stories, featuring a high-stakes case involving a missing diplomatic document that threatens international peace.
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E.
The Adventure of the Red Circle
The Adventure of the Red Circle is a Sherlock Holmes short story by Arthur Conan Doyle in which Holmes investigates a mysterious lodger and uncovers a case involving secret societies and hidden danger.
- 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 Adventure of the Illustrious Client Target entity description: "The Adventure of the Illustrious Client" is a Sherlock Holmes short story by Arthur Conan Doyle in which Holmes confronts a dangerous Austrian nobleman to protect a young woman from a disastrous marriage.
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A.
The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk
"The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk" is a Sherlock Holmes short story by Arthur Conan Doyle in which Holmes investigates a suspicious job offer made to a recently unemployed clerk, uncovering a criminal scheme.
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B.
The Adventure of the Priory School
The Adventure of the Priory School is a Sherlock Holmes short story by Arthur Conan Doyle in which Holmes investigates the mysterious disappearance of a schoolmaster and a nobleman’s son from an exclusive boarding school.
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C.
The Adventure of the Norwood Builder
The Adventure of the Norwood Builder is one of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes short stories, featuring Holmes and Dr. Watson investigating a seemingly incriminating disappearance and suspected murder in the London suburb of Norwood.
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D.
The Adventure of the Second Stain
"The Adventure of the Second Stain" is one of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes short stories, featuring a high-stakes case involving a missing diplomatic document that threatens international peace.
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E.
The Adventure of the Red Circle
The Adventure of the Red Circle is a Sherlock Holmes short story by Arthur Conan Doyle in which Holmes investigates a mysterious lodger and uncovers a case involving secret societies and hidden danger.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sherlock Holmes short story
ⓘ
detective fiction short story ⓘ |
| antagonist | Baron Adelbert Gruner ⓘ |
| author | Arthur Conan Doyle ⓘ |
| clientOfHolmes | an illustrious but unnamed client ⓘ |
| collection | The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Baron Adelbert Gruner
ⓘ
Dr. John H. Watson ⓘ
linked to:
Dr. Watson
Kitty Winter ⓘ Sherlock Holmes ⓘ
linked to:
Holmes
Sir James Damery ⓘ Violet de Merville ⓘ |
| firstPublicationCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| firstPublicationMedium | The Strand Magazine ⓘ |
| genre |
detective fiction
ⓘ
mystery fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
radio drama adaptations
ⓘ
stage adaptations ⓘ television adaptations ⓘ |
| includesTheme |
dangerous relationships
ⓘ
deception ⓘ protection of the innocent ⓘ |
| literaryUniverse |
Sherlock Holmes canon
ⓘ
linked to:
Sherlock Holmes stories
|
| mainCharacter |
Sherlock Holmes
ⓘ
linked to:
Holmes
|
| narrator |
Dr. John H. Watson
ⓘ
linked to:
Dr. Watson
|
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotElement | Holmes confronts a dangerous Austrian nobleman ⓘ |
| plotFocus | preventing a disastrous marriage ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | consulting detective ⓘ |
| series |
Sherlock Holmes
ⓘ
linked to:
Holmes
|
| settingCity |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| timePeriodOfSetting | late 19th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Adventure of the Illustrious Client Description of subject: "The Adventure of the Illustrious Client" is a Sherlock Holmes short story by Arthur Conan Doyle in which Holmes confronts a dangerous Austrian nobleman to protect a young woman from a disastrous marriage.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
later adventures of Sherlock Holmes
linked to: The Adventure of the Illustrious Client