The Killing Man
E753912
The Killing Man is a hardboiled crime novel in the Mike Hammer detective series, featuring the tough private eye embroiled in a violent, noir-style mystery.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Killing Man canonical | 2 |
| The Will to Kill | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8715536 — 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 Killing Man Context triple: [Mike Hammer, appearsIn, The Killing Man]
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A.
The Killing Hand
The Killing Hand is a progressive metal song by Dream Theater, featured on their debut album "When Dream and Day Unite."
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B.
Il vizio d’uccidere
"Il vizio d’uccidere" is a track from Ennio Morricone’s iconic Spaghetti Western score for the film *For a Few Dollars More*, characterized by its tense, atmospheric orchestration.
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C.
Experiment in Murder
Experiment in Murder is a crime novel set within the Capital Crimes series universe, following a high-stakes investigation into a deadly and intricately planned killing.
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D.
The Noose
"The Noose" is a 1928 American silent crime drama film starring Richard Barthelmess, noted for its intense melodrama and early sound-era experimentation.
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E.
Seven Days to a Killing
Seven Days to a Killing is a 1972 spy thriller novel by Clive Egleton, centered on a British intelligence officer whose son is kidnapped as part of a high-stakes blackmail plot.
- 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 Killing Man Target entity description: The Killing Man is a hardboiled crime novel in the Mike Hammer detective series, featuring the tough private eye embroiled in a violent, noir-style mystery.
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A.
The Killing Hand
The Killing Hand is a progressive metal song by Dream Theater, featured on their debut album "When Dream and Day Unite."
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B.
Il vizio d’uccidere
"Il vizio d’uccidere" is a track from Ennio Morricone’s iconic Spaghetti Western score for the film *For a Few Dollars More*, characterized by its tense, atmospheric orchestration.
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C.
Experiment in Murder
Experiment in Murder is a crime novel set within the Capital Crimes series universe, following a high-stakes investigation into a deadly and intricately planned killing.
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D.
The Noose
"The Noose" is a 1928 American silent crime drama film starring Richard Barthelmess, noted for its intense melodrama and early sound-era experimentation.
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E.
Seven Days to a Killing
Seven Days to a Killing is a 1972 spy thriller novel by Clive Egleton, centered on a British intelligence officer whose son is kidnapped as part of a high-stakes blackmail plot.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
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hardboiled novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
crime
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mystery ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| characterRole |
Mike Hammer is a private investigator
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linked to:
Mike Hammer
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| featuresCharacter | Mike Hammer ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Mike Hammer universe ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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hardboiled ⓘ noir ⓘ |
| hasDetectiveType | private eye ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose narrative ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | detective-centered narrative ⓘ |
| hasSettingStyle | noir-style mystery ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | American hardboiled detective fiction ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Mike Hammer ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
murder investigation
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violent crime ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | private detective ⓘ |
| protagonistTrait | tough ⓘ |
| series | Mike Hammer ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: The Killing Man Description of subject: The Killing Man is a hardboiled crime novel in the Mike Hammer detective series, featuring the tough private eye embroiled in a violent, noir-style mystery.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.