The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
E192927
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt is an Edgar Allan Poe detective story featuring C. Auguste Dupin, notable for being one of the first works of crime fiction to base its plot on a real-life murder case.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Mystery of Marie Rogêt canonical | 9 |
| Detective Dupin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1739146 — 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: The Mystery of Marie Rogêt Context triple: [The Purloined Letter, precededBy, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt]
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A.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Murders in the Rue Morgue is an 1841 short story by Edgar Allan Poe widely regarded as the first modern detective story, introducing the analytical sleuth C. Auguste Dupin.
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B.
A Blueprint for Murder
A Blueprint for Murder is a 1953 American film noir thriller in which Gary Merrill stars in a tense story of suspected poisoning and inheritance-driven murder.
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C.
The Deadly Affair
The Deadly Affair is a 1966 British spy thriller film, adapted from John le Carré’s novel "Call for the Dead" and directed by Sidney Lumet.
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D.
The Boston Strangler
The Boston Strangler is a 1968 crime thriller film dramatizing the real-life case of a notorious serial killer who terrorized Boston in the early 1960s.
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E.
Jane: A Murder
"Jane: A Murder" is a hybrid work of poetry, memoir, and true crime in which Maggie Nelson investigates the life and unsolved murder of her aunt Jane.
- 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 Mystery of Marie Rogêt Target entity description: The Mystery of Marie Rogêt is an Edgar Allan Poe detective story featuring C. Auguste Dupin, notable for being one of the first works of crime fiction to base its plot on a real-life murder case.
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A.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Murders in the Rue Morgue is an 1841 short story by Edgar Allan Poe widely regarded as the first modern detective story, introducing the analytical sleuth C. Auguste Dupin.
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B.
A Blueprint for Murder
A Blueprint for Murder is a 1953 American film noir thriller in which Gary Merrill stars in a tense story of suspected poisoning and inheritance-driven murder.
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C.
The Deadly Affair
The Deadly Affair is a 1966 British spy thriller film, adapted from John le Carré’s novel "Call for the Dead" and directed by Sidney Lumet.
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D.
The Boston Strangler
The Boston Strangler is a 1968 crime thriller film dramatizing the real-life case of a notorious serial killer who terrorized Boston in the early 1960s.
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E.
Jane: A Murder
"Jane: A Murder" is a hybrid work of poetry, memoir, and true crime in which Maggie Nelson investigates the life and unsolved murder of her aunt Jane.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime fiction
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detective fiction ⓘ short story ⓘ work of literature ⓘ |
| author | Edgar Allan Poe ⓘ |
| authorNationality | American ⓘ |
| basedOn | murder of Mary Cecilia Rogers ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
analytical reasoning in crime investigation
ⓘ
media speculation about crime ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| featuresCharacter |
C. Auguste Dupin
ⓘ
C. Auguste Dupin's unnamed narrator friend ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear |
1842
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1843 ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Snowden's Ladies' Companion ⓘ |
| followsWork | The Murders in the Rue Morgue ⓘ |
| genre |
detective story
ⓘ
mystery fiction ⓘ |
| hasApproximateLength | novelette ⓘ |
| hasCriticalReception | recognized as a pioneering analytic detective tale ⓘ |
| hasFictionalCounterpartOf | Mary Cecilia Rogers ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
forensic reasoning
ⓘ
murder investigation ⓘ urban crime ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter | Marie Rogêt ⓘ |
| includedInCollection | Tales by Edgar Allan Poe ⓘ |
| influencedGenre | modern detective fiction ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | American Romanticism ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the first crime stories based on a real-life case
ⓘ
early example of detective fiction ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalMedium | magazine ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
C. Auguste Dupin
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surface form:
C. Auguste Dupin stories
|
| plotDevice | armchair detection ⓘ |
| precedesWork | The Purloined Letter ⓘ |
| protagonist | C. Auguste Dupin ⓘ |
| publicationCity |
New York City
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surface form:
New York
|
| publicationFormat | serial publication ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Paris ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfStory | 19th century ⓘ |
| workChronologyInAuthorOeuvre | second Dupin story ⓘ |
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Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Monsieur G——
this entity surface form:
Detective Dupin