diff --git a/src/core/references/index.js b/src/core/references/index.js
index f88725d..03c94b6 100644
--- a/src/core/references/index.js
+++ b/src/core/references/index.js
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 //@flow
 
 export type {URL, ReferenceDetector} from "./referenceDetector";
+export {MappedReferenceDetector} from "./mappedReferenceDetector";
diff --git a/src/core/references/mappedReferenceDetector.js b/src/core/references/mappedReferenceDetector.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3c3f294
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/core/references/mappedReferenceDetector.js
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+//@flow
+
+import type {NodeAddressT} from "../graph";
+import type {ReferenceDetector, URL} from "./referenceDetector";
+
+/**
+ * A reference detector which uses a pregenerated `Map<URL, NodeAddressT>` as a
+ * lookup table.
+ *
+ * Note: this is sensitive to canonicalization issues because it's based on string
+ * comparisons. For example:
+ * - "http://foo.bar/123" != "http://foo.bar/123#chapter-2"
+ * - "http://foo.bar/?a=1&b=2" != "http://foo.bar/?b=2&a=1"
+ * - "http://foo.bar/space+bar" != "http://foo.bar/space%20bar"
+ */
+export class MappedReferenceDetector implements ReferenceDetector {
+  map: Map<URL, NodeAddressT>;
+
+  constructor(map: Map<URL, NodeAddressT>) {
+    this.map = map;
+  }
+
+  addressFromUrl(url: URL): ?NodeAddressT {
+    return this.map.get(url);
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/core/references/mappedReferenceDetector.test.js b/src/core/references/mappedReferenceDetector.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f7ea37e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/core/references/mappedReferenceDetector.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+// @flow
+
+import {type NodeAddressT, NodeAddress} from "../graph";
+import type {URL, ReferenceDetector} from "./referenceDetector";
+import {MappedReferenceDetector} from "./mappedReferenceDetector";
+
+const nodeA = NodeAddress.fromParts(["test", "A"]);
+const nodeB = NodeAddress.fromParts(["test", "B"]);
+const nodeC = NodeAddress.fromParts(["test", "C"]);
+
+describe("core/references/mappedReferenceDetector", () => {
+  describe("MappedReferenceDetector", () => {
+    it("should implement the ReferenceDetector interface", () => {
+      const _unused_toReferenceDetector = (
+        x: MappedReferenceDetector
+      ): ReferenceDetector => x;
+    });
+
+    it("should return values of exactly matching keys in the map", () => {
+      // Given
+      const map: Map<URL, NodeAddressT> = new Map([
+        ["http://foo.bar/a", nodeA],
+        ["http://foo.bar/b", nodeB],
+        ["http://foo.bar/c", nodeC],
+      ]);
+
+      // When
+      const refs = new MappedReferenceDetector(map);
+      const n1a = refs.addressFromUrl("http://foo.bar/a");
+      const n2a = refs.addressFromUrl("http://foo.bar/b");
+      const n3a = refs.addressFromUrl("http://foo.bar/c");
+      const n1b = refs.addressFromUrl("https://foo.bar/a");
+      const n2b = refs.addressFromUrl("http://foo.bar/b?key=val");
+      const n3b = refs.addressFromUrl("http://foo.bar/c#anchor");
+
+      // Then
+      expect(n1a).toEqual(nodeA);
+      expect(n2a).toEqual(nodeB);
+      expect(n3a).toEqual(nodeC);
+      expect(n1b).toEqual(undefined);
+      expect(n2b).toEqual(undefined);
+      expect(n3b).toEqual(undefined);
+    });
+  });
+});