Ten Little Soldiers
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Ten Little Soldiers is an alternative title for Agatha Christie’s classic mystery novel "And Then There Were None," in which ten strangers are lured to an isolated location and killed one by one.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ten Little Soldiers canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8448121 — 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: Ten Little Soldiers Context triple: [And Then There Were None, alternativeTitle, Ten Little Soldiers]
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A.
The Little Colonel
The Little Colonel is a 1935 American film best known for pairing Shirley Temple with Lionel Barrymore and featuring one of the earliest interracial dance scenes in Hollywood history.
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B.
Bon petit soldat
Bon petit soldat is a literary work by French writer and philosopher Mazarine Pingeot that explores intimate and psychological themes.
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C.
The Toy Soldier
The Toy Soldier is a themed retail shop in the United Kingdom Pavilion at EPCOT, known for selling British- and Disney-inspired toys and souvenirs.
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D.
The Fighting Sullivans
The Fighting Sullivans is a 1944 American war drama film that tells the true story of the five Sullivan brothers who all served and died together in World War II.
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E.
Troop Zero
Troop Zero is a 2019 family comedy-drama film about a misfit girl in 1970s rural Georgia who forms an unconventional Birdie Scout troop to compete for a chance to have her voice recorded on NASA’s Golden Record.
- 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: Ten Little Soldiers Target entity description: Ten Little Soldiers is an alternative title for Agatha Christie’s classic mystery novel "And Then There Were None," in which ten strangers are lured to an isolated location and killed one by one.
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A.
The Little Colonel
The Little Colonel is a 1935 American film best known for pairing Shirley Temple with Lionel Barrymore and featuring one of the earliest interracial dance scenes in Hollywood history.
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B.
Bon petit soldat
Bon petit soldat is a literary work by French writer and philosopher Mazarine Pingeot that explores intimate and psychological themes.
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C.
The Toy Soldier
The Toy Soldier is a themed retail shop in the United Kingdom Pavilion at EPCOT, known for selling British- and Disney-inspired toys and souvenirs.
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D.
The Fighting Sullivans
The Fighting Sullivans is a 1944 American war drama film that tells the true story of the five Sullivan brothers who all served and died together in World War II.
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E.
Troop Zero
Troop Zero is a 2019 family comedy-drama film about a misfit girl in 1970s rural Georgia who forms an unconventional Birdie Scout troop to compete for a chance to have her voice recorded on NASA’s Golden Record.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
And Then There Were None
ⓘ
Ten Little Indians ⓘ |
| alternativeTitleOf | And Then There Were None ⓘ |
| author | Agatha Christie ⓘ |
| basedOn | Ten Little Soldiers nursery rhyme ⓘ |
| centralMystery | identities and motives of a killer among ten guests ⓘ |
| containsElement | locked-room style constraints due to isolation ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1939 ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
mystery fiction ⓘ whodunit ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
film adaptations of And Then There Were None
ⓘ
radio adaptations of And Then There Were None ⓘ stage play adaptation by Agatha Christie ⓘ television adaptations of And Then There Were None ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced | later closed-circle mystery novels ⓘ |
| hasMotiveOfKiller | punishing people who escaped legal justice ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeDevice | use of a nursery rhyme to foreshadow each death ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
guilt
ⓘ
isolation ⓘ justice ⓘ paranoia ⓘ retribution ⓘ the psychology of fear ⓘ |
| hasTone |
claustrophobic
ⓘ
dark ⓘ suspenseful ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose fiction ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Golden Age of Detective Fiction ⓘ |
| mainLocationType | isolated country house on an island ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
absence of a surviving detective who explains the solution during the main narrative
ⓘ
innovative plot in which all suspects are also potential victims ⓘ |
| numberOfMainCharacters | 10 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalPublisher | Collins Crime Club ⓘ |
| partOf | Agatha Christie bibliography ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Ten strangers are lured to an isolated location and are killed one by one. ⓘ |
| setting | isolated island off the coast of Devon, England ⓘ |
| solutionRevealedIn | a postscript confession by the killer ⓘ |
| structure | characters are killed in a sequence that mirrors a nursery rhyme ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | early 20th century ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Ten Little Soldiers Description of subject: Ten Little Soldiers is an alternative title for Agatha Christie’s classic mystery novel "And Then There Were None," in which ten strangers are lured to an isolated location and killed one by one.
Referenced by (2)
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