George V. Higgins
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George V. Higgins was an American crime novelist and lawyer best known for his gritty, dialogue-driven depictions of Boston’s criminal underworld, including the acclaimed novel "The Friends of Eddie Coyle."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| George V. Higgins canonical | 7 |
| George Vincent Higgins | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13507746 — 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: George V. Higgins Context triple: [Cogan's Trade, author, George V. Higgins]
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A.
Meyer Levin
Meyer Levin was an American novelist and journalist best known for his pioneering works on the Holocaust and for helping to bring "The Diary of Anne Frank" to public attention.
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B.
Clarence S. Luce
Clarence S. Luce was an American architect known for his late 19th-century residential designs in New York City, including the distinguished townhouses of Strivers’ Row in Harlem.
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C.
Samson Raphaelson
Samson Raphaelson was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his influential collaborations with director Ernst Lubitsch on classic Hollywood comedies.
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D.
Ross Thomas
Ross Thomas was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his witty, politically charged crime and espionage thrillers.
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E.
Ross Thomas
Ross Thomas is an American actor best known for his role in the inspirational biographical film "Soul Surfer."
- 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: George V. Higgins Target entity description: George V. Higgins was an American crime novelist and lawyer best known for his gritty, dialogue-driven depictions of Boston’s criminal underworld, including the acclaimed novel "The Friends of Eddie Coyle."
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A.
Meyer Levin
Meyer Levin was an American novelist and journalist best known for his pioneering works on the Holocaust and for helping to bring "The Diary of Anne Frank" to public attention.
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B.
Clarence S. Luce
Clarence S. Luce was an American architect known for his late 19th-century residential designs in New York City, including the distinguished townhouses of Strivers’ Row in Harlem.
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C.
Samson Raphaelson
Samson Raphaelson was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his influential collaborations with director Ernst Lubitsch on classic Hollywood comedies.
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D.
Ross Thomas
Ross Thomas was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his witty, politically charged crime and espionage thrillers.
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E.
Ross Thomas
Ross Thomas is an American actor best known for his role in the inspirational biographical film "Soul Surfer."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novelist
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journalist ⓘ lawyer ⓘ novelist ⓘ person ⓘ professor ⓘ prosecutor ⓘ |
| adaptationOfWork |
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973 film)
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linked to:
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
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| birthDate | 1939-11-13 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Brockton, Massachusetts, United States
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linked to:
Brockton, Massachusetts
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1999-11-06 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Milton, Massachusetts, United States ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Boston College
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Boston College Law School ⓘ Stanford University ⓘ |
| employer |
Boston College
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Boston University ⓘ United States Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts ⓘ |
| familyName | Higgins ⓘ |
| fullName |
George Vincent Higgins
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linked to:
George V. Higgins
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| genre |
crime fiction
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detective fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | George ⓘ |
| hasWritingTheme |
law enforcement
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organized crime ⓘ urban life in Boston ⓘ |
| influenced | modern American crime fiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Cogan's Trade
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The Digger's Game ⓘ The Friends of Eddie Coyle ⓘ
linked to:
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (novel)
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| occupation |
assistant U.S. attorney
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journalist ⓘ lawyer ⓘ newspaper columnist ⓘ novelist ⓘ professor ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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linked to:
Boston, Massachusetts
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| spouse | Roxanne Higgins ⓘ |
| taughtSubject |
creative writing
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legal writing ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
dialogue-driven
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gritty realism ⓘ |
| wroteAbout | Boston criminal underworld ⓘ |
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: George V. Higgins Description of subject: George V. Higgins was an American crime novelist and lawyer best known for his gritty, dialogue-driven depictions of Boston’s criminal underworld, including the acclaimed novel "The Friends of Eddie Coyle."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Killing Them Softly
linked to: George V. Higgins
subject linked to:
Jackie Cogan – Brad Pitt