The Locked Room
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The Locked Room is a novel by Paul Auster, best known as the third installment of his postmodern detective sequence The New York Trilogy, exploring identity, authorship, and the instability of reality.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Locked Room canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6828194 — 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 Locked Room Context triple: [Paul Auster, notableWork, The Locked Room]
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A.
The Sealed Room
The Sealed Room is a 1909 American silent short film directed by D. W. Griffith, notable as an early example of cinematic suspense and psychological drama.
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B.
A Blueprint for Murder
A Blueprint for Murder is a 1953 American film noir thriller in which Gary Merrill stars in a tense story of suspected poisoning and inheritance-driven murder.
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C.
The Case of the Postponed Murder
The Case of the Postponed Murder is a Perry Mason detective novel by Erle Stanley Gardner featuring the famed defense attorney unraveling a complex murder plot.
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D.
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.
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E.
The Alibi
The Alibi is a film project on which acclaimed American film editor Jay Cassidy contributed his editing expertise.
- 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 Locked Room Target entity description: The Locked Room is a novel by Paul Auster, best known as the third installment of his postmodern detective sequence The New York Trilogy, exploring identity, authorship, and the instability of reality.
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A.
The Sealed Room
The Sealed Room is a 1909 American silent short film directed by D. W. Griffith, notable as an early example of cinematic suspense and psychological drama.
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B.
A Blueprint for Murder
A Blueprint for Murder is a 1953 American film noir thriller in which Gary Merrill stars in a tense story of suspected poisoning and inheritance-driven murder.
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C.
The Case of the Postponed Murder
The Case of the Postponed Murder is a Perry Mason detective novel by Erle Stanley Gardner featuring the famed defense attorney unraveling a complex murder plot.
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D.
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.
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E.
The Alibi
The Alibi is a film project on which acclaimed American film editor Jay Cassidy contributed his editing expertise.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Paul Auster ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| exploresTheme |
absence
ⓘ
authorship ⓘ doubling ⓘ identity ⓘ instability of reality ⓘ selfhood ⓘ |
| genre |
detective fiction
ⓘ
metafiction ⓘ mystery fiction ⓘ postmodern literature ⓘ |
| hasForm | novel in a trilogy ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780571142218 ⓘ |
| hasPageCountApprox | about 150–200 pages ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postmodernism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Fanshawe
ⓘ
Sophie Fanshawe ⓘ unnamed narrator ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person narrator ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blurring boundaries between fiction and reality
ⓘ
experimental detective narrative structure ⓘ |
| originalPublicationYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | The New York Trilogy ⓘ |
| publisher |
Faber and Faber
ⓘ
Sun and Moon Press ⓘ
linked to:
Sun & Moon Press
|
| relatedWork |
City of Glass
ⓘ
Ghosts ⓘ |
| seriesPosition | third installment ⓘ |
| setIn | New York City ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Locked Room Description of subject: The Locked Room is a novel by Paul Auster, best known as the third installment of his postmodern detective sequence The New York Trilogy, exploring identity, authorship, and the instability of reality.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.