Harlem Detective series
E1590266
UNEXPLORED
The Harlem Detective series is a set of hardboiled crime novels by Chester Himes featuring the tough, darkly comic investigations of Black detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson in mid-20th-century Harlem.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T23560072 — 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: Harlem Detective series Context triple: [Chester Himes, notableSeries, Harlem Detective series]
-
A.
87th Precinct
87th Precinct is an American television crime drama series based on Ed McBain’s police procedural novels, focusing on the detectives of a fictional urban precinct.
-
B.
81st Precinct
The 81st Precinct is a New York City Police Department station house responsible for law enforcement and public safety in a designated area of Brooklyn.
-
C.
41st Precinct
The 41st Precinct is a New York City Police Department station house serving the Hunts Point area of the Bronx.
-
D.
78th Precinct
The 78th Precinct is a New York City Police Department station house in Brooklyn that serves the Park Slope area and its surrounding neighborhoods.
-
E.
NYPD 81st Precinct
The NYPD 81st Precinct is a New York City Police Department station house responsible for law enforcement and public safety in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.
- 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: Harlem Detective series Target entity description: The Harlem Detective series is a set of hardboiled crime novels by Chester Himes featuring the tough, darkly comic investigations of Black detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson in mid-20th-century Harlem.
-
A.
87th Precinct
87th Precinct is an American television crime drama series based on Ed McBain’s police procedural novels, focusing on the detectives of a fictional urban precinct.
-
B.
81st Precinct
The 81st Precinct is a New York City Police Department station house responsible for law enforcement and public safety in a designated area of Brooklyn.
-
C.
41st Precinct
The 41st Precinct is a New York City Police Department station house serving the Hunts Point area of the Bronx.
-
D.
78th Precinct
The 78th Precinct is a New York City Police Department station house in Brooklyn that serves the Park Slope area and its surrounding neighborhoods.
-
E.
NYPD 81st Precinct
The NYPD 81st Precinct is a New York City Police Department station house responsible for law enforcement and public safety in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Come Back, Charleston Blue
→
plotSummary
→
Harlem detectives Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson investigate mysterious events linked to the legend of Charleston Blue
ⓘ
linked to: Harlem Detective series