Shaft
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"Shaft" is a 1971 American blaxploitation crime film (and subsequent media franchise) centered on the cool, tough private detective John Shaft navigating danger and corruption in New York City.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shaft canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T23084079 — 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: Shaft Context triple: [Harlem Air Shaft, hasTitleWord, Shaft]
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Shaft
Shaft is a small city in Iran’s northern Gilan Province, known for its lush green landscapes and traditional rural culture.
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Shaft
Shaft is a Japanese animation studio renowned for its visually distinctive and experimental style in anime such as the Monogatari series and Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
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Shaft (2000 film)
Shaft (2000 film) is a 2000 action-crime thriller that reimagines the classic blaxploitation character John Shaft, starring Samuel L. Jackson as a tough NYPD detective taking on corruption and violent crime.
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Shaft (2019 film)
Shaft (2019 film) is an action-comedy sequel that reunites multiple generations of the Shaft family as they team up to solve a crime in modern-day New York City.
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Shaft’s Carnival of Killers
Shaft’s Carnival of Killers is a crime novel in Ernest Tidyman’s hardboiled Shaft series, following private detective John Shaft through a violent, suspenseful investigation.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shaft Target entity description: "Shaft" is a 1971 American blaxploitation crime film (and subsequent media franchise) centered on the cool, tough private detective John Shaft navigating danger and corruption in New York City.
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A.
Shaft
Shaft is a Japanese animation studio renowned for its visually distinctive and experimental style in anime such as the Monogatari series and Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
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B.
Shaft
Shaft is a small city in Iran’s northern Gilan Province, known for its lush green landscapes and traditional rural culture.
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C.
Shaft (2000 film)
Shaft (2000 film) is a 2000 action-crime thriller that reimagines the classic blaxploitation character John Shaft, starring Samuel L. Jackson as a tough NYPD detective taking on corruption and violent crime.
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D.
Shaft (2019 film)
Shaft (2019 film) is an action-comedy sequel that reunites multiple generations of the Shaft family as they team up to solve a crime in modern-day New York City.
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E.
Shaft’s Carnival of Killers
Shaft’s Carnival of Killers is a crime novel in Ernest Tidyman’s hardboiled Shaft series, following private detective John Shaft through a violent, suspenseful investigation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.