The Return of Moriarty
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The Return of Moriarty is a Sherlock Holmes–universe crime novel by British author John Gardner that imagines the criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty’s continued schemes after his presumed death.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Moriarty: The Final Problem | 1 |
| The Return of Moriarty canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8738303 — 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 Return of Moriarty Context triple: [John Gardner (British writer), notableWork, The Return of Moriarty]
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A.
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
"Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon" is a 1943 mystery film in the long-running Sherlock Holmes series, starring Basil Rathbone as the famed detective in a World War II–era espionage story loosely based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s "The Adventure of the Dancing Men."
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B.
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror is a 1942 mystery film in the Sherlock Holmes series, set during World War II and featuring Basil Rathbone as Holmes investigating Nazi propaganda broadcasts threatening Britain.
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C.
Holmes and Holmes
Holmes and Holmes is a Canadian home renovation reality TV series featuring contractor Mike Holmes working alongside his son to repair and improve houses.
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D.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of detective stories by Arthur Conan Doyle that marks the celebrated comeback of his iconic sleuth after an apparent death at Reichenbach Falls.
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E.
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a classic American radio drama series that brought Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories to life for mid-20th-century audiences, most famously starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes.
- 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 Return of Moriarty Target entity description: The Return of Moriarty is a Sherlock Holmes–universe crime novel by British author John Gardner that imagines the criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty’s continued schemes after his presumed death.
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A.
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
"Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon" is a 1943 mystery film in the long-running Sherlock Holmes series, starring Basil Rathbone as the famed detective in a World War II–era espionage story loosely based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s "The Adventure of the Dancing Men."
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B.
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror is a 1942 mystery film in the Sherlock Holmes series, set during World War II and featuring Basil Rathbone as Holmes investigating Nazi propaganda broadcasts threatening Britain.
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C.
Holmes and Holmes
Holmes and Holmes is a Canadian home renovation reality TV series featuring contractor Mike Holmes working alongside his son to repair and improve houses.
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D.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of detective stories by Arthur Conan Doyle that marks the celebrated comeback of his iconic sleuth after an apparent death at Reichenbach Falls.
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E.
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a classic American radio drama series that brought Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories to life for mid-20th-century audiences, most famously starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sherlock Holmes pastiche
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crime novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| author | John Gardner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnCharacter | Professor Moriarty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Professor Moriarty
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sherlock Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Revenge of Moriarty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | events after the Reichenbach Falls ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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detective fiction ⓘ pastich ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | villain-centric viewpoint ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | Sherlock Holmes pastiche tradition ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
criminal mastermind
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organized crime ⓘ survival after presumed death ⓘ |
| marketedAs | Sherlock Holmes–universe crime novel ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | Professor Moriarty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Professor Moriarty series by John Gardner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1974 ⓘ |
| publisher | Weidenfeld & Nicolson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInUniverse | Sherlock Holmes universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| settingPeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
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 Return of Moriarty Description of subject: The Return of Moriarty is a Sherlock Holmes–universe crime novel by British author John Gardner that imagines the criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty’s continued schemes after his presumed death.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Moriarty: The Final Problem