Resurrection Men
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"Resurrection Men" is a crime novel in Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus series, centered on a disgraced detective sent to a police retraining course where he uncovers deep-rooted corruption.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Resurrection Men canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9607196 — 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: Resurrection Men Context triple: [Ian Rankin, notableWork, Resurrection Men]
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A.
The Resurrectionist
"The Resurrectionist" is a song by the Pet Shop Boys, released as the B-side to their single "I'm with Stupid."
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B.
20th Victim
"20th Victim" is a crime thriller novel by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro, part of the bestselling Women's Murder Club series following a group of women solving complex criminal cases in San Francisco.
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C.
The Town That Was Murdered
The Town That Was Murdered is a 1939 political and social history book by British Labour politician Ellen Wilkinson about the decline and destruction of the shipbuilding town of Jarrow and the wider injustices of interwar unemployment.
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D.
The Executioners
The Executioners is a 1957 crime thriller novel by John D. MacDonald that tells the story of a lawyer and his family terrorized by a vengeful ex-convict, later famously adapted into the film Cape Fear.
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E.
The Capital Punisher
The Capital Punisher is the nickname of Frank Howard, a towering power-hitting Major League Baseball slugger best known for his time with the Washington Senators in the 1960s and early 1970s.
- 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: Resurrection Men Target entity description: "Resurrection Men" is a crime novel in Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus series, centered on a disgraced detective sent to a police retraining course where he uncovers deep-rooted corruption.
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A.
The Resurrectionist
"The Resurrectionist" is a song by the Pet Shop Boys, released as the B-side to their single "I'm with Stupid."
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B.
20th Victim
"20th Victim" is a crime thriller novel by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro, part of the bestselling Women's Murder Club series following a group of women solving complex criminal cases in San Francisco.
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C.
The Town That Was Murdered
The Town That Was Murdered is a 1939 political and social history book by British Labour politician Ellen Wilkinson about the decline and destruction of the shipbuilding town of Jarrow and the wider injustices of interwar unemployment.
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D.
The Executioners
The Executioners is a 1957 crime thriller novel by John D. MacDonald that tells the story of a lawyer and his family terrorized by a vengeful ex-convict, later famously adapted into the film Cape Fear.
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E.
The Capital Punisher
The Capital Punisher is the nickname of Frank Howard, a towering power-hitting Major League Baseball slugger best known for his time with the Washington Senators in the 1960s and early 1970s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Inspector Rebus novel
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crime novel ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| author | Ian Rankin ⓘ |
| awarded | Edgar Award for Best Novel nomination ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
institutional misconduct
ⓘ
loyalty and betrayal ⓘ police corruption ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Morris Gerald Cafferty
ⓘ
Siobhan Clarke ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 2002 ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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detective fiction ⓘ |
| hasAntagonisticForce | corrupt police officers ⓘ |
| hasProtagonistOccupation | police detective ⓘ |
| hasSeriesPredecessor | The Falls ⓘ |
| hasSeriesSuccessor | A Question of Blood ⓘ |
| hasSettingElement | police training college ⓘ |
| hasSubgenre |
Tartan noir
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linked to:
Tartan Noir
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Inspector Rebus
ⓘ
linked to:
DI John Rebus in Rebus
John Rebus ⓘ
linked to:
DI John Rebus in Rebus
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| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
Inspector Rebus
ⓘ
linked to:
DI John Rebus in Rebus
|
| plotSummary |
Inspector John Rebus is sent to a police retraining course after throwing a mug at his superior and becomes involved in an undercover operation targeting corrupt officers.
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linked to:
DI John Rebus in Rebus
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| publisher |
Orion Books
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linked to:
Orion Publishing Group
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| seriesNumberInInspectorRebus | 13 ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Edinburgh
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Scotland ⓘ |
| titleOrigin | The title refers to historical body-snatchers known as resurrection men who exhumed corpses for medical research. ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Resurrection Men Description of subject: "Resurrection Men" is a crime novel in Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus series, centered on a disgraced detective sent to a police retraining course where he uncovers deep-rooted corruption.
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