Inspector Hornleigh
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Inspector Hornleigh is a fictional British police detective character who became popular through radio dramas and films in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Inspector Hornleigh canonical | 1 |
| Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16875575 — 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: Inspector Hornleigh Context triple: [Edward Black, notableWork, Inspector Hornleigh]
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A.
Inspector Athelney Jones
Inspector Athelney Jones is a bumbling yet self-assured Scotland Yard detective who appears as a foil to Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel "The Sign of Four."
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B.
Inspector Cockrill
Inspector Cockrill is a fictional, sharp-witted British police detective who appears as the central sleuth in several classic mystery novels by Christianna Brand.
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C.
Inspector Brackenreid
Inspector Brackenreid is a gruff but fair Victorian-era police inspector and a key supporting character in the Canadian detective series "Murdoch Mysteries."
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D.
Inspector Frank Bumstead
Inspector Frank Bumstead is a weary, morally driven police detective in the neo-noir science fiction film "Dark City," who gradually uncovers the disturbing truth behind the city's reality.
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E.
Detective Inspector Gaskill
Detective Inspector Gaskill is a police investigator character in the stage adaptation of "The Girl on the Train," responsible for probing the central mystery of the 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: Inspector Hornleigh Target entity description: Inspector Hornleigh is a fictional British police detective character who became popular through radio dramas and films in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
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A.
Inspector Athelney Jones
Inspector Athelney Jones is a bumbling yet self-assured Scotland Yard detective who appears as a foil to Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel "The Sign of Four."
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B.
Inspector Cockrill
Inspector Cockrill is a fictional, sharp-witted British police detective who appears as the central sleuth in several classic mystery novels by Christianna Brand.
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C.
Inspector Brackenreid
Inspector Brackenreid is a gruff but fair Victorian-era police inspector and a key supporting character in the Canadian detective series "Murdoch Mysteries."
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D.
Inspector Frank Bumstead
Inspector Frank Bumstead is a weary, morally driven police detective in the neo-noir science fiction film "Dark City," who gradually uncovers the disturbing truth behind the city's reality.
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E.
Detective Inspector Gaskill
Detective Inspector Gaskill is a police investigator character in the stage adaptation of "The Girl on the Train," responsible for probing the central mystery of the story.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday