Cogan's Trade
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Cogan's Trade is a 1974 crime novel by George V. Higgins featuring mob enforcer Jackie Cogan navigating the fallout of a heist in the Boston underworld.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cogan's Trade canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13507744 — 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: Cogan's Trade Context triple: [Killing Them Softly, basedOn, Cogan's Trade]
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A.
The One and Only Coggon
The One and Only Coggon is a distinctive nickname highlighting the small Iowa town of Coggon’s unique identity and community pride.
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B.
The Traders
"The Traders" is a science fiction story set in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe, focusing on the role of independent merchants in spreading the influence of the Foundation through trade and technology.
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C.
Lord of Trade
The Lord of Trade was a British government office responsible for overseeing colonial and commercial affairs, particularly through the Board of Trade, during the 17th to 19th centuries.
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D.
The Smugglers
The Smugglers is a missing 1966 Doctor Who serial featuring the First Doctor in a historical adventure involving pirates and hidden treasure in 17th-century Cornwall.
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E.
The Smugglers
The Smugglers are a Canadian indie rock band known for their energetic garage-punk sound and humorous, high-energy live performances, particularly active in the 1990s.
- 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: Cogan's Trade Target entity description: Cogan's Trade is a 1974 crime novel by George V. Higgins featuring mob enforcer Jackie Cogan navigating the fallout of a heist in the Boston underworld.
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A.
The One and Only Coggon
The One and Only Coggon is a distinctive nickname highlighting the small Iowa town of Coggon’s unique identity and community pride.
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B.
The Traders
"The Traders" is a science fiction story set in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe, focusing on the role of independent merchants in spreading the influence of the Foundation through trade and technology.
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C.
Lord of Trade
The Lord of Trade was a British government office responsible for overseeing colonial and commercial affairs, particularly through the Board of Trade, during the 17th to 19th centuries.
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D.
The Smugglers
The Smugglers is a missing 1966 Doctor Who serial featuring the First Doctor in a historical adventure involving pirates and hidden treasure in 17th-century Cornwall.
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E.
The Smugglers
The Smugglers are a Canadian indie rock band known for their energetic garage-punk sound and humorous, high-energy live performances, particularly active in the 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
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fictional character ⓘ film ⓘ novel ⓘ person ⓘ |
| adaptedInto | Killing Them Softly ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Cogan's Trade ⓘ |
| author | George V. Higgins ⓘ |
| basedOn | Cogan's Trade ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| director | Andrew Dominik ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterOccupation | mob enforcer ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
noir fiction ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
criminal underworld
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economic anxiety ⓘ loyalty and betrayal ⓘ organized crime ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Jackie Cogan ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | dialogue-driven prose ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork | Cogan's Trade ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
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mob enforcer ⓘ novelist ⓘ |
| plotFocus | fallout of a heist in the Boston underworld ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1974 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2012 ⓘ |
| settingCountry |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| settingLocation | Boston ⓘ |
| settingRegion | Massachusetts ⓘ |
| starring | Brad Pitt ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | early 1970s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
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: Cogan's Trade Description of subject: Cogan's Trade is a 1974 crime novel by George V. Higgins featuring mob enforcer Jackie Cogan navigating the fallout of a heist in the Boston underworld.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.