A Murder of Quality
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A Murder of Quality is a 1962 detective novel by John le Carré featuring intelligence officer George Smiley investigating a murder at an elite English boarding school.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A Murder of Quality canonical | 8 |
| A Murder of Quality (1991 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2217661 — 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: A Murder of Quality Context triple: [George Smiley, notableWork, A Murder of Quality]
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A.
The Code of the Mulliners
The Code of the Mulliners is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse featuring one of Mr Mulliner’s comic family anecdotes set in his whimsical fictional universe.
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B.
Murder to Excellence
"Murder to Excellence" is a socially conscious hip-hop track by Jay-Z and Kanye West that contrasts inner-city violence with Black success and empowerment.
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C.
Molloy
Molloy is a modernist novel by Samuel Beckett that follows two interlinked, often absurd and introspective narratives exploring identity, language, and existential uncertainty.
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D.
The Red Armchair
The Red Armchair is a famous 1932 portrait by Pablo Picasso depicting his lover and muse Marie-Thérèse Walter in his distinctive Cubist style.
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E.
The Order of Things
The Order of Things is a seminal 1966 work of philosophy by Michel Foucault that analyzes how different historical periods have structured knowledge and the human sciences.
- 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: A Murder of Quality Target entity description: A Murder of Quality is a 1962 detective novel by John le Carré featuring intelligence officer George Smiley investigating a murder at an elite English boarding school.
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A.
The Code of the Mulliners
The Code of the Mulliners is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse featuring one of Mr Mulliner’s comic family anecdotes set in his whimsical fictional universe.
-
B.
Murder to Excellence
"Murder to Excellence" is a socially conscious hip-hop track by Jay-Z and Kanye West that contrasts inner-city violence with Black success and empowerment.
-
C.
Molloy
Molloy is a modernist novel by Samuel Beckett that follows two interlinked, often absurd and introspective narratives exploring identity, language, and existential uncertainty.
-
D.
The Red Armchair
The Red Armchair is a famous 1932 portrait by Pablo Picasso depicting his lover and muse Marie-Thérèse Walter in his distinctive Cubist style.
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E.
The Order of Things
The Order of Things is a seminal 1966 work of philosophy by Michel Foucault that analyzes how different historical periods have structured knowledge and the human sciences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
ⓘ
detective novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| adaptationType | television film ⓘ |
| adaptedFor | television ⓘ |
| author | John le Carré ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | George Smiley ⓘ |
| fictionalDetective | George Smiley ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold ⓘ |
| genre |
detective fiction
ⓘ
spy fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
A Murder of Quality (1991 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
A Murder of Quality
|
| hasFormat |
hardcover
ⓘ
paperback ⓘ |
| hasMediaType | print ⓘ |
| hasSubject | British intelligence officer ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
boarding school life
ⓘ
class system in England ⓘ murder investigation ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | George Smiley ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | Dorset ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | George Smiley series ⓘ |
| precededBy | Call for the Dead ⓘ |
| protagonistName | George Smiley ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | intelligence officer ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1962 ⓘ |
| publisher | Victor Gollancz Ltd ⓘ |
| setting | elite English boarding school ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: A Murder of Quality Description of subject: A Murder of Quality is a 1962 detective novel by John le Carré featuring intelligence officer George Smiley investigating a murder at an elite English boarding school.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: A Murder of Quality
subject linked to:
The Circus (fictional British intelligence service)