The Case of the Empty Tin
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The Case of the Empty Tin is a Perry Mason detective novel by Erle Stanley Gardner featuring the famed defense attorney unraveling a mystery centered on a seemingly insignificant empty container.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Case of the Empty Tin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6167701 — 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 Case of the Empty Tin Context triple: [Erle Stanley Gardner, notableWork, The Case of the Empty Tin]
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A.
The World's Greatest Detective
The World's Greatest Detective is a renowned epithet for Batman, highlighting his unparalleled investigative skills, deductive reasoning, and mastery of crime-solving in the DC Comics universe.
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B.
The Cheap Detective
The Cheap Detective is a 1978 comedy film that parodies classic film noir and detective movies, starring Peter Falk as a bumbling private eye.
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C.
The Clue of the New Pin
The Clue of the New Pin is a classic British crime novel by Edgar Wallace featuring a locked-room style mystery and intricate detective plot.
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D.
The Spotted Cat and Other Mysteries from Inspector Cockrill's Casebook
The Spotted Cat and Other Mysteries from Inspector Cockrill's Casebook is a collection of classic British detective short stories featuring Christianna Brand’s popular sleuth Inspector Cockrill.
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E.
A Slight Case of Murder
A Slight Case of Murder is a 1938 crime-comedy film starring Edward G. Robinson as a reformed bootlegger whose attempts to go straight lead to a series of comic mishaps.
- 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 Case of the Empty Tin Target entity description: The Case of the Empty Tin is a Perry Mason detective novel by Erle Stanley Gardner featuring the famed defense attorney unraveling a mystery centered on a seemingly insignificant empty container.
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A.
The World's Greatest Detective
The World's Greatest Detective is a renowned epithet for Batman, highlighting his unparalleled investigative skills, deductive reasoning, and mastery of crime-solving in the DC Comics universe.
-
B.
The Cheap Detective
The Cheap Detective is a 1978 comedy film that parodies classic film noir and detective movies, starring Peter Falk as a bumbling private eye.
-
C.
The Clue of the New Pin
The Clue of the New Pin is a classic British crime novel by Edgar Wallace featuring a locked-room style mystery and intricate detective plot.
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D.
The Spotted Cat and Other Mysteries from Inspector Cockrill's Casebook
The Spotted Cat and Other Mysteries from Inspector Cockrill's Casebook is a collection of classic British detective short stories featuring Christianna Brand’s popular sleuth Inspector Cockrill.
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E.
A Slight Case of Murder
A Slight Case of Murder is a 1938 crime-comedy film starring Edward G. Robinson as a reformed bootlegger whose attempts to go straight lead to a series of comic mishaps.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Perry Mason novel
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Erle Stanley Gardner ⓘ |
| centralObject | empty tin ⓘ |
| character | Perry Mason ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| featuresCharacter |
Della Street
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Paul Drake ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Perry Mason universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Perry Mason
|
| franchise | Perry Mason ⓘ |
| genre |
detective fiction
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legal thriller ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
hardcover
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paperback ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Perry Mason ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
courtroom drama
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murder investigation ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | defense attorney ⓘ |
| publicationDecade | 1940s ⓘ |
| publisher | William Morrow and Company ⓘ |
| series | Perry Mason ⓘ |
| setting |
California
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linked to:
California, United States
|
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: The Case of the Empty Tin Description of subject: The Case of the Empty Tin is a Perry Mason detective novel by Erle Stanley Gardner featuring the famed defense attorney unraveling a mystery centered on a seemingly insignificant empty container.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.