Cards on the Table
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Cards on the Table is a 1936 detective novel by Agatha Christie featuring Hercule Poirot, centered on a murder that occurs during a bridge party.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cards on the Table canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10445093 — 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: Cards on the Table Context triple: [Death on the Nile, precededBy, Cards on the Table]
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A.
Draw of the Cards
"Draw of the Cards" is a 1981 synth-driven pop/rock song by American singer Kim Carnes, released as a follow-up single to her hit "Bette Davis Eyes."
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B.
Wild Cards
Wild Cards is a long-running shared-universe superhero anthology series, primarily edited and co-created by George R. R. Martin, that explores an alternate history shaped by an alien virus granting people extraordinary powers.
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C.
Mazo
Mazo is a locality situated on the border of the municipality of El Paso in the Canary Island of La Palma, Spain.
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D.
The Table
The Table is a distinctive flat-topped volcanic mesa located in Garibaldi Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada.
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E.
The Table
"The Table" is the English name of Surah Al-Ma'idah, a chapter of the Qur'an that addresses themes of lawful and unlawful food, covenants, and adherence to divine law.
- 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: Cards on the Table Target entity description: Cards on the Table is a 1936 detective novel by Agatha Christie featuring Hercule Poirot, centered on a murder that occurs during a bridge party.
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A.
Draw of the Cards
"Draw of the Cards" is a 1981 synth-driven pop/rock song by American singer Kim Carnes, released as a follow-up single to her hit "Bette Davis Eyes."
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B.
Wild Cards
Wild Cards is a long-running shared-universe superhero anthology series, primarily edited and co-created by George R. R. Martin, that explores an alternate history shaped by an alien virus granting people extraordinary powers.
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C.
Mazo
Mazo is a locality situated on the border of the municipality of El Paso in the Canary Island of La Palma, Spain.
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D.
The Table
"The Table" is the English name of Surah Al-Ma'idah, a chapter of the Qur'an that addresses themes of lawful and unlawful food, covenants, and adherence to divine law.
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E.
The Table
The Table is a distinctive flat-topped volcanic mesa located in Garibaldi Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
| adaptedAs | television episode ⓘ |
| author | Agatha Christie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralCrime | murder ⓘ |
| centralEvent | bridge party ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Ariadne Oliver
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Colonel Race NERFINISHED ⓘ Hercule Poirot NERFINISHED ⓘ Superintendent Battle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Murder in Mesopotamia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
detective fiction
ⓘ
mystery fiction ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeClassification | whodunit ⓘ |
| hasCharacterRole |
Ariadne Oliver, crime writer
ⓘ
Colonel Race, government agent ⓘ Hercule Poirot, detective NERFINISHED ⓘ Superintendent Battle, police officer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCoverArtist | not publicly well documented ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
hardcover
ⓘ
paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| hasISBN | various editions with different ISBNs ⓘ |
| hasMainTheme |
deception
ⓘ
gamesmanship ⓘ the psychology of murder ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
bridge (card game)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
psychological detection ⓘ |
| isFictionalWork | true ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Golden Age detective fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediaType | book ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | murder investigation ⓘ |
| notableFor | use of bridge scores as clues ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalPublisher | Collins Crime Club NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Hercule Poirot series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Death in the Clouds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonist | Hercule Poirot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1936 ⓘ |
| publisher | Collins Crime Club NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| televisionAdaptation | Agatha Christie's Poirot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | interwar period ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Cards on the Table Description of subject: Cards on the Table is a 1936 detective novel by Agatha Christie featuring Hercule Poirot, centered on a murder that occurs during a bridge party.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Death on the Nile