Hostage (novel)
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Hostage (novel) is a 2001 crime thriller by Robert Crais that follows a former LAPD negotiator drawn into a deadly standoff when a botched robbery turns into a high-stakes hostage crisis.
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| Hostage (novel) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T15823994 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Hostage (novel) Context triple: [Hostage, basedOn, Hostage (novel)]
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A.
The Hostage
"The Hostage" is a darkly comic stage play by Irish writer Brendan Behan that explores political conflict, nationalism, and human vulnerability in a Dublin boarding house during the IRA’s struggle.
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B.
Hostages
Hostages is an American television drama-thriller series centered on a surgeon whose family is taken captive to coerce her into assassinating the President.
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C.
Hostage
"Hostage" is a 2005 crime thriller film in which Jonathan Tucker appears alongside Bruce Willis in a tense story about a hostage negotiator drawn into a violent standoff.
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D.
Hostages (TV series)
Hostages is an American television drama-thriller series centered on a surgeon whose family is taken captive and who is coerced into a political assassination plot.
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E.
Hostages Trial
The Hostages Trial was a post–World War II U.S. military tribunal at Nuremberg that prosecuted German generals for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the Balkans.
- 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: Hostage (novel) Target entity description: Hostage (novel) is a 2001 crime thriller by Robert Crais that follows a former LAPD negotiator drawn into a deadly standoff when a botched robbery turns into a high-stakes hostage crisis.
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A.
The Hostage
"The Hostage" is a darkly comic stage play by Irish writer Brendan Behan that explores political conflict, nationalism, and human vulnerability in a Dublin boarding house during the IRA’s struggle.
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B.
Hostages
Hostages is an American television drama-thriller series centered on a surgeon whose family is taken captive to coerce her into assassinating the President.
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C.
Hostage
"Hostage" is a 2005 crime thriller film in which Jonathan Tucker appears alongside Bruce Willis in a tense story about a hostage negotiator drawn into a violent standoff.
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D.
Hostages (TV series)
Hostages is an American television drama-thriller series centered on a surgeon whose family is taken captive and who is coerced into a political assassination plot.
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E.
Hostages Trial
The Hostages Trial was a post–World War II U.S. military tribunal at Nuremberg that prosecuted German generals for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the Balkans.
- F. None of above. chosen
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