Shaft Among the Jews
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"Shaft Among the Jews" is a crime novel by Ernest Tidyman featuring his iconic private detective John Shaft navigating a case within New York’s Jewish community.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shaft Among the Jews canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20468058 — 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: Shaft Among the Jews Context triple: [Ernest Tidyman, notableWork, Shaft Among the Jews]
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A.
Shaft (novel)
Shaft is a 1970 crime novel by Ernest Tidyman that introduced the tough, streetwise private detective John Shaft, later popularized through the blaxploitation film series.
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B.
The Last Jew
The Last Jew is a novel by Israeli author Yoram Kaniuk that explores Jewish identity, memory, and survival through a fragmented, postmodern narrative.
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C.
The Jews of Silence
The Jews of Silence is a non-fiction work by Elie Wiesel that chronicles his 1965 journey to the Soviet Union and exposes the oppression and silencing of Soviet Jewry.
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D.
Jews Without Money
Jews Without Money is a semi-autobiographical proletarian novel by Michael Gold depicting the harsh lives of Jewish immigrants in New York City's Lower East Side in the early 20th century.
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E.
The Jewish Barber
The Jewish Barber is the humble, Chaplin-portrayed protagonist of *The Great Dictator*, whose resemblance to a tyrannical dictator drives the film’s satirical critique of fascism and antisemitism.
- 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: Shaft Among the Jews Target entity description: "Shaft Among the Jews" is a crime novel by Ernest Tidyman featuring his iconic private detective John Shaft navigating a case within New York’s Jewish community.
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A.
Shaft (novel)
Shaft is a 1970 crime novel by Ernest Tidyman that introduced the tough, streetwise private detective John Shaft, later popularized through the blaxploitation film series.
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B.
The Last Jew
The Last Jew is a novel by Israeli author Yoram Kaniuk that explores Jewish identity, memory, and survival through a fragmented, postmodern narrative.
-
C.
The Jews of Silence
The Jews of Silence is a non-fiction work by Elie Wiesel that chronicles his 1965 journey to the Soviet Union and exposes the oppression and silencing of Soviet Jewry.
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D.
Jews Without Money
Jews Without Money is a semi-autobiographical proletarian novel by Michael Gold depicting the harsh lives of Jewish immigrants in New York City's Lower East Side in the early 20th century.
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E.
The Jewish Barber
The Jewish Barber is the humble, Chaplin-portrayed protagonist of *The Great Dictator*, whose resemblance to a tyrannical dictator drives the film’s satirical critique of fascism and antisemitism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.