Appointment with Death
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"Appointment with Death" is a Hercule Poirot murder mystery novel by Agatha Christie, set largely in the Middle East and centered on the suspicious death of a tyrannical matriarch during a family trip.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Appointment with Death canonical | 3 |
| Appointment with Death (play) | 2 |
| Appointment with Death (1988 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10445094 — 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: Appointment with Death Context triple: [Death on the Nile, followedBy, Appointment with Death]
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A.
Office of the Dead
The Office of the Dead is a traditional set of prayers in the Roman Catholic liturgy, recited for the souls of the deceased, especially in connection with funerals and All Souls’ Day.
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B.
The Living and the Dead
The Living and the Dead is a major poetry collection by Russian poet Arseny Tarkovsky, reflecting his philosophical and lyrical meditations on life, memory, and mortality.
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C.
The Charnel House
The Charnel House is a 1945 painting by Pablo Picasso that depicts a twisted, skeletal pile of bodies as a powerful condemnation of war and human atrocity.
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D.
The Shadow of Death
The Shadow of Death is a 19th-century religious painting by William Holman Hunt depicting a pre-crucifixion vision of Christ, emblematic of the Pre-Raphaelite movement’s detailed realism and symbolic intensity.
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E.
The Man Who Died Twice
The Man Who Died Twice is a narrative poem by American poet Edwin Arlington Robinson that explores themes of identity, fate, and moral conflict through a dramatic, character-driven story.
- 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: Appointment with Death Target entity description: "Appointment with Death" is a Hercule Poirot murder mystery novel by Agatha Christie, set largely in the Middle East and centered on the suspicious death of a tyrannical matriarch during a family trip.
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A.
Office of the Dead
The Office of the Dead is a traditional set of prayers in the Roman Catholic liturgy, recited for the souls of the deceased, especially in connection with funerals and All Souls’ Day.
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B.
The Living and the Dead
The Living and the Dead is a major poetry collection by Russian poet Arseny Tarkovsky, reflecting his philosophical and lyrical meditations on life, memory, and mortality.
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C.
The Charnel House
The Charnel House is a 1945 painting by Pablo Picasso that depicts a twisted, skeletal pile of bodies as a powerful condemnation of war and human atrocity.
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D.
The Shadow of Death
The Shadow of Death is a 19th-century religious painting by William Holman Hunt depicting a pre-crucifixion vision of Christ, emblematic of the Pre-Raphaelite movement’s detailed realism and symbolic intensity.
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E.
The Man Who Died Twice
The Man Who Died Twice is a narrative poem by American poet Edwin Arlington Robinson that explores themes of identity, fate, and moral conflict through a dramatic, character-driven story.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Appointment with Death Description of subject: "Appointment with Death" is a Hercule Poirot murder mystery novel by Agatha Christie, set largely in the Middle East and centered on the suspicious death of a tyrannical matriarch during a family trip.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Death on the Nile (novel)
linked to: Appointment with Death
linked to: Appointment with Death
linked to: Appointment with Death