The Murders in the Rue Morgue
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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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Murders in the Rue Morgue canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T295536 — 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 Murders in the Rue Morgue Context triple: [Edgar Allan Poe, notableWork, The Murders in the Rue Morgue]
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A.
The Tell-Tale Heart
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a classic Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that explores guilt and madness through the unreliable narration of a murderer haunted by the imagined beating of his victim’s heart.
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B.
The Black Cat
"The Black Cat" is a classic Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that explores themes of guilt, madness, and the supernatural through a narrator’s violent obsession with his pet.
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C.
The Purloined Letter
"The Purloined Letter" is a classic detective short story by Edgar Allan Poe featuring C. Auguste Dupin as he unravels the clever concealment of a stolen document.
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D.
The Cask of Amontillado
"The Cask of Amontillado" is a classic Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that follows a chilling tale of calculated revenge and murder set in the catacombs beneath an Italian city.
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E.
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Pit and the Pendulum is a Gothic short story that follows a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition facing psychological terror and a gruesome mechanical execution device.
- 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 Murders in the Rue Morgue Target entity description: 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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A.
The Tell-Tale Heart
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a classic Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that explores guilt and madness through the unreliable narration of a murderer haunted by the imagined beating of his victim’s heart.
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B.
The Black Cat
"The Black Cat" is a classic Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that explores themes of guilt, madness, and the supernatural through a narrator’s violent obsession with his pet.
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C.
The Purloined Letter
"The Purloined Letter" is a classic detective short story by Edgar Allan Poe featuring C. Auguste Dupin as he unravels the clever concealment of a stolen document.
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D.
The Cask of Amontillado
"The Cask of Amontillado" is a classic Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that follows a chilling tale of calculated revenge and murder set in the catacombs beneath an Italian city.
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E.
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Pit and the Pendulum is a Gothic short story that follows a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition facing psychological terror and a gruesome mechanical execution device.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
detective fiction work
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mystery story ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| author | Edgar Allan Poe ⓘ |
| centralCrime | double murder in a Paris apartment ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| culprit | escaped orangutan ⓘ |
| fictionalDetective | C. Auguste Dupin ⓘ |
| fictionalStreet | Rue Morgue ⓘ |
| firstPublicationFormat | periodical ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Graham's Magazine ⓘ |
| followedBy |
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
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The Purloined Letter ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
detective fiction ⓘ mystery ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
comic adaptations
ⓘ
film adaptations ⓘ radio adaptations ⓘ television adaptations ⓘ |
| hasElement |
armchair detection
ⓘ
brilliant amateur detective ⓘ incompetent police ⓘ locked-room mystery ⓘ |
| hasMotiveForCrime | none (accidental killing by animal) ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter | none ⓘ |
| includedInCollection |
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (later editions and collections)
ⓘ
surface form:
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
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| influenced |
Sherlock Holmes stories
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development of detective fiction genre ⓘ |
| introducedCharacter | C. Auguste Dupin ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Romanticism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | C. Auguste Dupin ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| narrator | unnamed first-person narrator ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | C. Auguste Dupin stories ⓘ |
| placeOfFirstPublication | Philadelphia ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1841 ⓘ |
| publisher | George Rex Graham ⓘ |
| settingCountry | France ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Paris ⓘ |
| theme |
analytical reasoning
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limits of police investigation ⓘ power of ratiocination ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfFiction | 19th century ⓘ |
| victim |
Madame L'Espanaye
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Madame L'Espanaye ⓘ
surface form:
Mademoiselle Camille L'Espanaye
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| widelyRegardedAs | first modern detective story ⓘ |
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subject surface form:
Edgar Allan Poe
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