The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams
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The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams is a comic mystery novel in Lawrence Block’s Bernie Rhodenbarr series, featuring a bookish burglar who becomes entangled in a baseball-themed caper.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20663635 — 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)
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Target entity: The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams Context triple: [Lawrence Block, notableWork, The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams]
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A.
Curse of the Bambino
Curse of the Bambino is the popular superstition that blamed the Boston Red Sox’s 86-year World Series championship drought on their 1919 sale of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees.
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B.
Shoeless Joe (novel)
Shoeless Joe is W.P. Kinsella’s 1982 magic-realist baseball novel that inspired the film "Field of Dreams," blending America’s pastime with themes of faith, nostalgia, and redemption.
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C.
The Spy Behind Home Plate
The Spy Behind Home Plate is a documentary film about Moe Berg, the enigmatic Major League Baseball catcher who became a World War II spy for the U.S. government.
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D.
The Babe Ruth Story
The Babe Ruth Story is a 1948 biographical film dramatizing the life and baseball career of legendary slugger Babe Ruth.
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E.
Ball Four
Ball Four is a groundbreaking 1970 memoir by former Major League Baseball pitcher Jim Bouton that offers an unvarnished, behind-the-scenes look at professional baseball and its culture.
- 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 Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams Target entity description: The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams is a comic mystery novel in Lawrence Block’s Bernie Rhodenbarr series, featuring a bookish burglar who becomes entangled in a baseball-themed caper.
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A.
Curse of the Bambino
Curse of the Bambino is the popular superstition that blamed the Boston Red Sox’s 86-year World Series championship drought on their 1919 sale of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees.
-
B.
Shoeless Joe (novel)
Shoeless Joe is W.P. Kinsella’s 1982 magic-realist baseball novel that inspired the film "Field of Dreams," blending America’s pastime with themes of faith, nostalgia, and redemption.
-
C.
The Spy Behind Home Plate
The Spy Behind Home Plate is a documentary film about Moe Berg, the enigmatic Major League Baseball catcher who became a World War II spy for the U.S. government.
-
D.
The Babe Ruth Story
The Babe Ruth Story is a 1948 biographical film dramatizing the life and baseball career of legendary slugger Babe Ruth.
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E.
Ball Four
Ball Four is a groundbreaking 1970 memoir by former Major League Baseball pitcher Jim Bouton that offers an unvarnished, behind-the-scenes look at professional baseball and its culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
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