Devil in a Blue Dress (novel)
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"Devil in a Blue Dress" is a 1990 hardboiled crime novel by Walter Mosley that introduces Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, a Black World War II veteran turned unlicensed private investigator navigating racial tensions in postwar Los Angeles.
All labels observed (1)
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| Devil in a Blue Dress (novel) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22948283 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Devil in a Blue Dress (novel) Context triple: [Devil in a Blue Dress, basedOn, Devil in a Blue Dress (novel)]
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A.
Devil in a Blue Dress
Devil in a Blue Dress is a 1995 neo-noir mystery film starring Denzel Washington as private investigator Easy Rawlins, adapted from Walter Mosley’s novel of the same name.
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B.
Heat of the Night
"Heat of the Night" is a rock song by Bryan Adams, best known as the lead single from his 1987 album *Into the Fire*.
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C.
Perdido Street Blues
"Perdido Street Blues" is a classic New Orleans jazz composition closely associated with clarinetist Johnny Dodds and the early jazz tradition.
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D.
Beale St. Blues
"Beale St. Blues" is an alternate title for the classic American jazz and blues standard "Beale Street Blues," written by W.C. Handy and named after the famous Memphis street.
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E.
The Blue Dahlia
The Blue Dahlia is a 1946 film noir crime drama, written by Raymond Chandler and starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, about a war veteran entangled in a murder mystery.
- 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: Devil in a Blue Dress (novel) Target entity description: "Devil in a Blue Dress" is a 1990 hardboiled crime novel by Walter Mosley that introduces Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, a Black World War II veteran turned unlicensed private investigator navigating racial tensions in postwar Los Angeles.
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A.
Devil in a Blue Dress
Devil in a Blue Dress is a 1995 neo-noir mystery film starring Denzel Washington as private investigator Easy Rawlins, adapted from Walter Mosley’s novel of the same name.
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B.
Heat of the Night
"Heat of the Night" is a rock song by Bryan Adams, best known as the lead single from his 1987 album *Into the Fire*.
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C.
Perdido Street Blues
"Perdido Street Blues" is a classic New Orleans jazz composition closely associated with clarinetist Johnny Dodds and the early jazz tradition.
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D.
Beale St. Blues
"Beale St. Blues" is an alternate title for the classic American jazz and blues standard "Beale Street Blues," written by W.C. Handy and named after the famous Memphis street.
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E.
The Blue Dahlia
The Blue Dahlia is a 1946 film noir crime drama, written by Raymond Chandler and starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, about a war veteran entangled in a murder mystery.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.