Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
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Vintage Crime/Black Lizard is a Knopf Doubleday imprint specializing in classic and contemporary crime and noir fiction.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vintage Crime | 1 |
| Vintage Crime/Black Lizard canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2542938 — 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: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Context triple: [Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, hasImprint, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard]
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Blacker
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B.
The Black Devil
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Gipsy Avenger
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The Bat
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E.
Rorschach
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- 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: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Target entity description: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard is a Knopf Doubleday imprint specializing in classic and contemporary crime and noir fiction.
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A.
Blacker
Blacker is a comparative form of the color term "black," indicating a greater degree of darkness or blackness.
-
B.
The Black Devil
The Black Devil was the fearsome nickname of Erich Hartmann, the German World War II fighter ace who remains the highest-scoring fighter pilot in history.
-
C.
Gipsy Avenger
Gipsy Avenger is a next-generation Mark-6 Jaeger featured in the film "Pacific Rim: Uprising," serving as one of the primary mechs defending humanity against Kaiju threats.
-
D.
The Bat
The Bat is a popular inverted boomerang-style roller coaster at Canada's Wonderland known for its intense forward and backward loops.
-
E.
Rorschach
Rorschach is a masked vigilante antihero from the Watchmen universe, known for his uncompromising moral absolutism and inkblot-patterned mask.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book publisher imprint
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publishing imprint ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| distributor | Penguin Random House ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
literary crime fiction
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reissues of classic noir novels ⓘ reprints of out-of-print crime fiction ⓘ |
| genreFocus |
detective fiction
ⓘ
hardboiled fiction ⓘ |
| hasImprintType | genre-focused imprint ⓘ |
| industry | publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | English ⓘ |
| marketedAs |
Black Lizard
ⓘ
Vintage Crime ⓘ
linked to:
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
|
| mediaType |
e-books
ⓘ
print books ⓘ |
| notableAuthorPublished |
Chester Himes
ⓘ
Dashiell Hammett ⓘ Georges Simenon ⓘ James M. Cain ⓘ Jim Thompson ⓘ Patricia Highsmith ⓘ Raymond Chandler ⓘ Ross Macdonald ⓘ |
| notableSeriesPublished |
Philip Marlowe series
ⓘ
linked to:
Philip Marlowe
Sam Spade novels ⓘ |
| parentCompany |
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ⓘ
Penguin Random House ⓘ Vintage Books ⓘ |
| partOf | Vintage Books crime list ⓘ |
| publishesFormat |
paperback books
ⓘ
trade paperback books ⓘ |
| regionOfDistribution |
North America
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
classic crime fiction
ⓘ
contemporary crime fiction ⓘ crime fiction ⓘ mystery fiction ⓘ noir fiction ⓘ |
| subjectArea |
fiction
ⓘ
genre fiction ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Description of subject: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard is a Knopf Doubleday imprint specializing in classic and contemporary crime and noir fiction.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard