The Door with Seven Locks
E144960
The Door with Seven Locks is a 1926 crime novel by British writer Edgar Wallace, centered on a mysterious inheritance, a heavily secured tomb, and a web of murder and intrigue.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Door with Seven Locks canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1262779 — 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 Door with Seven Locks Context triple: [Edgar Wallace, notableWork, The Door with Seven Locks]
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A.
The Golden Threshold
The Golden Threshold is a celebrated early 20th-century poetry collection by Indian poet Sarojini Naidu, noted for its lyrical style and evocation of Indian life and landscapes.
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B.
The Golden Stairs
The Golden Stairs is a celebrated 1880 oil painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, depicting a procession of ethereal young women descending a spiral staircase in a dreamlike, symbolist style.
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C.
Room of the Three Windows
The Room of the Three Windows is a notable Inca ceremonial chamber at Machu Picchu, distinguished by its three trapezoidal windows overlooking the Sacred Plaza and the surrounding mountains.
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D.
The Castle
The Castle is a surreal, unfinished novel by Franz Kafka that follows a land surveyor’s futile attempts to gain access to a mysterious, bureaucratic authority that governs a remote village.
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E.
The Castle
The Castle is the iconic red sandstone building on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., that serves as the historic headquarters and visitor center of the Smithsonian Institution.
- 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 Door with Seven Locks Target entity description: The Door with Seven Locks is a 1926 crime novel by British writer Edgar Wallace, centered on a mysterious inheritance, a heavily secured tomb, and a web of murder and intrigue.
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A.
The Golden Threshold
The Golden Threshold is a celebrated early 20th-century poetry collection by Indian poet Sarojini Naidu, noted for its lyrical style and evocation of Indian life and landscapes.
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B.
The Golden Stairs
The Golden Stairs is a celebrated 1880 oil painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, depicting a procession of ethereal young women descending a spiral staircase in a dreamlike, symbolist style.
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C.
Room of the Three Windows
The Room of the Three Windows is a notable Inca ceremonial chamber at Machu Picchu, distinguished by its three trapezoidal windows overlooking the Sacred Plaza and the surrounding mountains.
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D.
The Castle
The Castle is a surreal, unfinished novel by Franz Kafka that follows a land surveyor’s futile attempts to gain access to a mysterious, bureaucratic authority that governs a remote village.
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E.
The Castle
The Castle is the iconic red sandstone building on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., that serves as the historic headquarters and visitor center of the Smithsonian Institution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Edgar Wallace ⓘ |
| centuryOfWork | 20th century ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdBy | Edgar Wallace ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
mystery fiction ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
heavily secured tomb
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multiple locks ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
criminal conspiracy
ⓘ
inheritance dispute ⓘ investigation of murders ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
intrigue
ⓘ
locked tomb ⓘ murder ⓘ mysterious inheritance ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Door with Seven Locks self-link ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | popular fiction ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativeFormat | third-person narrative ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Edgar Wallace bibliography ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1926 ⓘ |
| setting | England ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | early 20th century ⓘ |
| writtenBy | Edgar Wallace ⓘ |
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: The Door with Seven Locks Description of subject: The Door with Seven Locks is a 1926 crime novel by British writer Edgar Wallace, centered on a mysterious inheritance, a heavily secured tomb, and a web of murder and intrigue.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.