Adventures in the Ransom Trade
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Adventures in the Ransom Trade is a nonfiction book by Daniel Bergner that chronicles his experiences investigating and negotiating modern-day ransom kidnappings around the world.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Adventures in the Ransom Trade canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9015438 — 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: Adventures in the Ransom Trade Context triple: [Proof of Life, basedOn, Adventures in the Ransom Trade]
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A.
The Smugglers
The Smugglers are a Canadian indie rock band known for their energetic garage-punk sound and humorous, high-energy live performances, particularly active in the 1990s.
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B.
The Smugglers
The Smugglers is a missing 1966 Doctor Who serial featuring the First Doctor in a historical adventure involving pirates and hidden treasure in 17th-century Cornwall.
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C.
The Plunderers
The Plunderers is a 1960 American Western film featuring Lyle Bettger in a prominent role, centered on a town terrorized by a group of violent young men and the reluctant hero who stands up to them.
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D.
Lord of Trade
The Lord of Trade was a British government office responsible for overseeing colonial and commercial affairs, particularly through the Board of Trade, during the 17th to 19th centuries.
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E.
The Family Trade
The Family Trade is a science fiction novel by Charles Stross that follows a journalist who discovers she can travel between parallel worlds and becomes embroiled in the politics and intrigues of a powerful interdimensional trading clan.
- 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: Adventures in the Ransom Trade Target entity description: Adventures in the Ransom Trade is a nonfiction book by Daniel Bergner that chronicles his experiences investigating and negotiating modern-day ransom kidnappings around the world.
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A.
The Smugglers
The Smugglers is a missing 1966 Doctor Who serial featuring the First Doctor in a historical adventure involving pirates and hidden treasure in 17th-century Cornwall.
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B.
The Smugglers
The Smugglers are a Canadian indie rock band known for their energetic garage-punk sound and humorous, high-energy live performances, particularly active in the 1990s.
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C.
The Plunderers
The Plunderers is a 1960 American Western film featuring Lyle Bettger in a prominent role, centered on a town terrorized by a group of violent young men and the reluctant hero who stands up to them.
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D.
Lord of Trade
The Lord of Trade was a British government office responsible for overseeing colonial and commercial affairs, particularly through the Board of Trade, during the 17th to 19th centuries.
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E.
The Family Trade
The Family Trade is a science fiction novel by Charles Stross that follows a journalist who discovers she can travel between parallel worlds and becomes embroiled in the politics and intrigues of a powerful interdimensional trading clan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | nonfiction book ⓘ |
| about |
ethics of paying ransom
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global kidnapping industry ⓘ negotiation tactics ⓘ ransom trade ⓘ risk and danger in journalism ⓘ |
| author | Daniel Bergner ⓘ |
| basedOn | Daniel Bergner's reporting ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| depicts |
hostage negotiators
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hostages ⓘ kidnappers ⓘ modern-day ransom kidnappings ⓘ |
| genre |
journalism
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nonfiction ⓘ true crime ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | Daniel Bergner ⓘ |
| hasType | book ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
crime
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hostage negotiation ⓘ international crime ⓘ journalistic investigation ⓘ kidnapping ⓘ ransom ⓘ |
| mediaType |
print
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text ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| workOf | Daniel Bergner ⓘ |
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: Adventures in the Ransom Trade Description of subject: Adventures in the Ransom Trade is a nonfiction book by Daniel Bergner that chronicles his experiences investigating and negotiating modern-day ransom kidnappings around the world.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.