The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
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The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is an 1886 Australian detective novel by Fergus Hume that became an international bestseller and a landmark in early crime fiction.
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| The Mystery of a Hansom Cab canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20155048 — 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 a Hansom Cab Context triple: [John Waters, notableWork, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab]
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A.
The Scotland Yard Mystery
The Scotland Yard Mystery is a 1934 British crime film centered on a complex murder investigation led by detectives from London's Metropolitan Police.
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B.
Murder in the Mews
Murder in the Mews is a collection of four Hercule Poirot detective stories by Agatha Christie, featuring the famous Belgian sleuth solving intricate murder mysteries.
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C.
The Expressman and the Detective
The Expressman and the Detective is a 19th-century true-crime detective narrative by Allan Pinkerton, recounting one of his agency’s real-life investigations.
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D.
The Mystery of the Blue Train
The Mystery of the Blue Train is an Agatha Christie detective novel featuring Hercule Poirot as he investigates a murder and jewel theft aboard a luxurious French train.
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E.
Murder at the Gallop
Murder at the Gallop is a 1963 British mystery film in which Margaret Rutherford stars as Agatha Christie's amateur sleuth Miss Marple investigating a suspicious death at a country estate.
- 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 a Hansom Cab Target entity description: The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is an 1886 Australian detective novel by Fergus Hume that became an international bestseller and a landmark in early crime fiction.
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A.
The Scotland Yard Mystery
The Scotland Yard Mystery is a 1934 British crime film centered on a complex murder investigation led by detectives from London's Metropolitan Police.
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B.
Murder in the Mews
Murder in the Mews is a collection of four Hercule Poirot detective stories by Agatha Christie, featuring the famous Belgian sleuth solving intricate murder mysteries.
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C.
The Expressman and the Detective
The Expressman and the Detective is a 19th-century true-crime detective narrative by Allan Pinkerton, recounting one of his agency’s real-life investigations.
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D.
The Mystery of the Blue Train
The Mystery of the Blue Train is an Agatha Christie detective novel featuring Hercule Poirot as he investigates a murder and jewel theft aboard a luxurious French train.
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E.
Murder at the Gallop
Murder at the Gallop is a 1963 British mystery film in which Margaret Rutherford stars as Agatha Christie's amateur sleuth Miss Marple investigating a suspicious death at a country estate.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.