The Listening Walls
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The Listening Walls is a psychological mystery novel by Margaret Millar, known for its intricate plotting and exploration of dark family secrets and emotional tensions.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Listening Walls canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7977899 — 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 Listening Walls Context triple: [Margaret Millar, notableWork, The Listening Walls]
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A.
The Listening Room
The Listening Room is a surrealist painting by René Magritte that depicts an oversized green apple filling an entire room, exemplifying his signature play with scale and reality.
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B.
Within These Walls
Within These Walls is a 1945 American prison drama film starring Thomas Mitchell and Mark Stevens that explores the challenges of a warden trying to reform a troubled penitentiary.
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C.
Behind the Walls
"Behind the Walls" is a monumental outdoor sculpture by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa, depicting an elongated female head covering her eyes with her hands.
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D.
Things Heard & Seen
Things Heard & Seen is a 2021 supernatural horror drama film that blends marital thriller elements with ghost story themes, based on the novel "All Things Cease to Appear" by Elizabeth Brundage.
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E.
Echo Wall
Echo Wall is a circular, acoustically engineered wall in Beijing’s Temple of Heaven complex, famous for transmitting whispers clearly over long distances along its curved surface.
- 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 Listening Walls Target entity description: The Listening Walls is a psychological mystery novel by Margaret Millar, known for its intricate plotting and exploration of dark family secrets and emotional tensions.
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A.
The Listening Room
The Listening Room is a surrealist painting by René Magritte that depicts an oversized green apple filling an entire room, exemplifying his signature play with scale and reality.
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B.
Within These Walls
Within These Walls is a 1945 American prison drama film starring Thomas Mitchell and Mark Stevens that explores the challenges of a warden trying to reform a troubled penitentiary.
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C.
Behind the Walls
"Behind the Walls" is a monumental outdoor sculpture by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa, depicting an elongated female head covering her eyes with her hands.
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D.
Things Heard & Seen
Things Heard & Seen is a 2021 supernatural horror drama film that blends marital thriller elements with ghost story themes, based on the novel "All Things Cease to Appear" by Elizabeth Brundage.
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E.
Echo Wall
Echo Wall is a circular, acoustically engineered wall in Beijing’s Temple of Heaven complex, famous for transmitting whispers clearly over long distances along its curved surface.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
ⓘ
psychological mystery novel ⓘ |
| author | Margaret Millar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| firstPublicationYear | 1959 ⓘ |
| genre |
mystery fiction
ⓘ
psychological fiction ⓘ |
| hasAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Detective Elmer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mrs. Kellogg NERFINISHED ⓘ Rupert Kellogg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasClimaxType | psychological revelation ⓘ |
| hasFormat | print ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter |
Amy Kellogg
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wilma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMotiveElement |
fear
ⓘ
jealousy ⓘ self-preservation ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeDevice |
shifting perspectives
ⓘ
withheld information ⓘ |
| hasReception | critically acclaimed ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
economical prose
ⓘ
slow-building suspense ⓘ |
| hasSubgenre |
crime novel
ⓘ
domestic suspense ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
emotional tension
ⓘ
family secrets ⓘ guilt ⓘ marital conflict ⓘ unreliable perception ⓘ |
| isNotableWorkOf | Margaret Millar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | third-person narrative ⓘ |
| notableFor |
exploration of dark family secrets
ⓘ
intricate plotting ⓘ psychological depth ⓘ suspenseful atmosphere ⓘ |
| partOf | American crime fiction canon ⓘ |
| plotFocus | disappearance of two women on vacation in Mexico ⓘ |
| publisher | Random House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Mexico
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfStory | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| workOf | Margaret Millar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Listening Walls Description of subject: The Listening Walls is a psychological mystery novel by Margaret Millar, known for its intricate plotting and exploration of dark family secrets and emotional tensions.
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