Ngaio Marsh
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Ngaio Marsh was a renowned New Zealand crime writer best known for her classic detective novels featuring Inspector Roderick Alleyn and her status as one of the "Queens of Crime" of the Golden Age of detective fiction.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ngaio Marsh canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5230579 — 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)
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Target entity: Ngaio Marsh Context triple: [Collins Crime Club, notableAuthorPublished, Ngaio Marsh]
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Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie was a prolific British crime novelist and playwright, best known for creating the detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple and for being one of the best-selling authors in history.
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Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers was a renowned British crime writer, best known for her Lord Peter Wimsey detective novels and her contributions to Christian apologetics and literary criticism.
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C.
P. D. James
P. D. James was a renowned British crime novelist best known for her Adam Dalgliesh detective series and her sophisticated, psychologically rich mysteries.
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John Dickson Carr
John Dickson Carr was an American mystery writer renowned for his ingenious locked-room and impossible-crime detective novels, particularly those featuring Dr. Gideon Fell and Sir Henry Merrivale.
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Astrid Lindley
Astrid Lindley is known as the wife of late Pro Football Hall of Famer and broadcaster Frank Gifford.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ngaio Marsh Target entity description: Ngaio Marsh was a renowned New Zealand crime writer best known for her classic detective novels featuring Inspector Roderick Alleyn and her status as one of the "Queens of Crime" of the Golden Age of detective fiction.
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A.
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie was a prolific British crime novelist and playwright, best known for creating the detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple and for being one of the best-selling authors in history.
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B.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy L. Sayers was a renowned British crime writer, best known for her Lord Peter Wimsey detective novels and her contributions to Christian apologetics and literary criticism.
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C.
P. D. James
P. D. James was a renowned British crime novelist best known for her Adam Dalgliesh detective series and her sophisticated, psychologically rich mysteries.
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D.
John Dickson Carr
John Dickson Carr was an American mystery writer renowned for his ingenious locked-room and impossible-crime detective novels, particularly those featuring Dr. Gideon Fell and Sir Henry Merrivale.
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E.
Astrid Lindley
Astrid Lindley is known as the wife of late Pro Football Hall of Famer and broadcaster Frank Gifford.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (68)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Golden Age detective fiction writer
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New Zealander ⓘ crime writer ⓘ person ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Edith Ngaio Marsh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contemporaryOf |
Agatha Christie
NERFINISHED
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Dorothy L. Sayers NERFINISHED ⓘ Margery Allingham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | New Zealand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | New Zealand ⓘ |
| createdCharacter | Inspector Roderick Alleyn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1895-04-23 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1982-02-18 ⓘ |
| describedAs | one of the Queens of Crime ⓘ |
| educatedAt | St Margaret's College, Christchurch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Marsh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
crime fiction
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theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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detective fiction ⓘ mystery fiction ⓘ |
| givenName |
Edith
NERFINISHED
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Ngaio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNationality | New Zealander NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Dame ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Order of the British Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Golden Age of detective fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Ngaio Marsh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCharacter | Inspector Roderick Alleyn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Man Lay Dead
NERFINISHED
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Artists in Crime NERFINISHED ⓘ Black As He's Painted NERFINISHED ⓘ Clutch of Constables NERFINISHED ⓘ Colour Scheme NERFINISHED ⓘ Dead Water NERFINISHED ⓘ Death and the Dancing Footman NERFINISHED ⓘ Death at the Bar NERFINISHED ⓘ Death in Ecstasy NERFINISHED ⓘ Death in a White Tie NERFINISHED ⓘ Died in the Wool NERFINISHED ⓘ Enter a Murderer NERFINISHED ⓘ False Scent NERFINISHED ⓘ Final Curtain NERFINISHED ⓘ Grave Mistake NERFINISHED ⓘ Hand in Glove NERFINISHED ⓘ Killer Dolphin NERFINISHED ⓘ Last Ditch NERFINISHED ⓘ Light Thickens NERFINISHED ⓘ Opening Night NERFINISHED ⓘ Overture to Death NERFINISHED ⓘ Photo Finish NERFINISHED ⓘ Scales of Justice NERFINISHED ⓘ Spinsters in Jeopardy NERFINISHED ⓘ Surfeit of Lampreys NERFINISHED ⓘ Swing Brother Swing NERFINISHED ⓘ The Nursing Home Murder NERFINISHED ⓘ Tied Up in Tinsel NERFINISHED ⓘ Vintage Murder NERFINISHED ⓘ When in Rome NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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playwright ⓘ theatre director ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Christchurch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Christchurch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Ngaio Marsh Description of subject: Ngaio Marsh was a renowned New Zealand crime writer best known for her classic detective novels featuring Inspector Roderick Alleyn and her status as one of the "Queens of Crime" of the Golden Age of detective fiction.
Referenced by (3)
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