The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe
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The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe is a British television drama series based on the true story of John Darwin’s infamous faked canoeing death and insurance fraud.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe canonical | 3 |
| The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe: The Real Story | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13704807 — 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 Thief, His Wife and the Canoe Context triple: [Monica Dolan, notableWork, The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe]
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A.
The Little Thief
The Little Thief is a 1988 French coming-of-age drama film, based on an idea by François Truffaut, about a rebellious teenage girl navigating love, crime, and independence in 1950s France.
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B.
The Thief and the Dogs
The Thief and the Dogs is a 1961 existential and psychological novel by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz that follows a recently released thief seeking revenge in post-revolutionary Cairo.
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C.
Once a Thief
Once a Thief is a 1991 Hong Kong action-comedy film blending heist capers with stylized gunplay and humor.
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D.
Once a Thief
Once a Thief is a 1965 American crime drama film directed by Ralph Nelson, centered on an ex-convict struggling to go straight while being pulled back into the criminal underworld.
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E.
The Robbers
The Robbers is a play by Friedrich Schiller that explores themes of freedom, justice, and moral corruption through the story of two estranged brothers who become leader and victim of a band of outlaws.
- 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 Thief, His Wife and the Canoe Target entity description: The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe is a British television drama series based on the true story of John Darwin’s infamous faked canoeing death and insurance fraud.
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A.
The Little Thief
The Little Thief is a 1988 French coming-of-age drama film, based on an idea by François Truffaut, about a rebellious teenage girl navigating love, crime, and independence in 1950s France.
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B.
The Thief and the Dogs
The Thief and the Dogs is a 1961 existential and psychological novel by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz that follows a recently released thief seeking revenge in post-revolutionary Cairo.
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C.
Once a Thief
Once a Thief is a 1991 Hong Kong action-comedy film blending heist capers with stylized gunplay and humor.
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D.
Once a Thief
Once a Thief is a 1965 American crime drama film directed by Ralph Nelson, centered on an ex-convict struggling to go straight while being pulled back into the criminal underworld.
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E.
The Robbers
The Robbers is a play by Friedrich Schiller that explores themes of freedom, justice, and moral corruption through the story of two estranged brothers who become leader and victim of a band of outlaws.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe: The Real Story