The Deaf Man
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The Deaf Man is a recurring, enigmatic criminal mastermind and arch-nemesis of the 87th Precinct detectives in Ed McBain’s long-running police procedural novel series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Deaf Man canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20663756 — 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 Deaf Man Context triple: [Ed McBain, notableCharacter, The Deaf Man]
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A.
House of the Deaf Man
House of the Deaf Man is the name of Francisco Goya’s former residence near Madrid, famed as the site where he painted his haunting Black Paintings directly onto the walls.
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B.
The Blind Man
The Blind Man was a short-lived but influential Dada art and literary magazine co-edited by Marcel Duchamp and others in New York in 1917.
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C.
The Troubled Man
The Troubled Man is a crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell, featuring detective Kurt Wallander in a politically tinged mystery involving Cold War secrets and personal turmoil.
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D.
The Blind
"The Blind" is the English translation of Maurice Maeterlinck's symbolist play "Les Aveugles," which portrays a group of blind people lost in a forest as an allegory of human uncertainty and existential dread.
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E.
Quinta del Sordo (House of the Deaf Man)
Quinta del Sordo (House of the Deaf Man) was Francisco Goya’s country house near Madrid, famed as the original setting of his haunting series of mural works known as the Black Paintings.
- 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 Deaf Man Target entity description: The Deaf Man is a recurring, enigmatic criminal mastermind and arch-nemesis of the 87th Precinct detectives in Ed McBain’s long-running police procedural novel series.
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A.
House of the Deaf Man
House of the Deaf Man is the name of Francisco Goya’s former residence near Madrid, famed as the site where he painted his haunting Black Paintings directly onto the walls.
-
B.
The Blind Man
The Blind Man was a short-lived but influential Dada art and literary magazine co-edited by Marcel Duchamp and others in New York in 1917.
-
C.
The Troubled Man
The Troubled Man is a crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell, featuring detective Kurt Wallander in a politically tinged mystery involving Cold War secrets and personal turmoil.
-
D.
The Blind
"The Blind" is the English translation of Maurice Maeterlinck's symbolist play "Les Aveugles," which portrays a group of blind people lost in a forest as an allegory of human uncertainty and existential dread.
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E.
Quinta del Sordo (House of the Deaf Man)
Quinta del Sordo (House of the Deaf Man) was Francisco Goya’s country house near Madrid, famed as the original setting of his haunting series of mural works known as the Black Paintings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.