Dead Man's Folly
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Dead Man's Folly is a detective novel by Agatha Christie featuring Hercule Poirot investigating a murder staged during a mock "murder hunt" at an English country house.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dead Man’s Folly | 4 |
| Dead Man's Folly canonical | 3 |
| Dead Man’s Folly (TV adaptation) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10445204 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dead Man's Folly Context triple: [Hercule Poirot, appearsInWork, Dead Man's Folly]
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A.
Dead Man’s Footsteps
Dead Man’s Footsteps is a crime thriller novel by British author Peter James, featuring Detective Superintendent Roy Grace as he investigates a mystery linked to the 9/11 attacks and a long-buried secret.
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B.
Dead Man’s Ransom
Dead Man’s Ransom is a historical mystery novel in the Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters, set in 12th-century England and blending monastic life with intricate crime investigation.
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C.
The Desperate Man
The Desperate Man is a famous early self-portrait by French Realist painter Gustave Courbet, known for its intense, wide-eyed expression and dramatic depiction of psychological turmoil.
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D.
Dead Man
Dead Man is a 1995 black-and-white revisionist Western film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, known for its surreal, existential tone and a score by Neil Young.
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E.
Death of a Man
"Death of a Man" is a novel by American writer Kay Boyle that explores the moral and emotional turmoil surrounding the rise of fascism in pre–World War II Europe.
- 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: Dead Man's Folly Target entity description: Dead Man's Folly is a detective novel by Agatha Christie featuring Hercule Poirot investigating a murder staged during a mock "murder hunt" at an English country house.
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A.
Dead Man’s Footsteps
Dead Man’s Footsteps is a crime thriller novel by British author Peter James, featuring Detective Superintendent Roy Grace as he investigates a mystery linked to the 9/11 attacks and a long-buried secret.
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B.
Dead Man’s Ransom
Dead Man’s Ransom is a historical mystery novel in the Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters, set in 12th-century England and blending monastic life with intricate crime investigation.
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C.
The Desperate Man
The Desperate Man is a famous early self-portrait by French Realist painter Gustave Courbet, known for its intense, wide-eyed expression and dramatic depiction of psychological turmoil.
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D.
Dead Man
Dead Man is a 1995 black-and-white revisionist Western film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, known for its surreal, existential tone and a score by Neil Young.
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E.
Death of a Man
"Death of a Man" is a novel by American writer Kay Boyle that explores the moral and emotional turmoil surrounding the rise of fascism in pre–World War II Europe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Dead Man's Folly Description of subject: Dead Man's Folly is a detective novel by Agatha Christie featuring Hercule Poirot investigating a murder staged during a mock "murder hunt" at an English country house.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Greenway (Agatha Christie’s holiday home)
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subject linked to:
Greenway (Agatha Christie’s holiday home)
linked to: Dead Man's Folly