Dead Rabbits
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The Dead Rabbits were a notorious 19th-century Irish-American street gang in New York City, famously depicted in the film "Gangs of New York."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dead Rabbits canonical | 3 |
| Dead Rabbits Riot | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2659234 — 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: Dead Rabbits Context triple: [Amsterdam Vallon, affiliation, Dead Rabbits]
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A.
The Snakes
The Snakes is a subgroup affiliated with the Brooklyn hip-hop collective Junior M.A.F.I.A., associated with the mid-1990s East Coast rap scene.
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B.
Buckwild
Buckwild is an American hip-hop producer and member of the Diggin' in the Crates Crew (D.I.T.C.), known for his influential work with artists like The Notorious B.I.G., O.C., and Big L.
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C.
The Quails
The Quails is the nickname of Sacramento Republic FC, a professional soccer club based in Sacramento, California that competes in the USL Championship.
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D.
Dustheads
Dustheads is a vibrant 1982 neo-expressionist painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat, celebrated for its frenetic energy, bold colors, and depiction of figures associated with New York’s downtown street culture.
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E.
St. Lunatics
St. Lunatics is a hip hop group from St. Louis, Missouri, best known for launching the career of rapper Nelly and for their early-2000s chart successes.
- 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: Dead Rabbits Target entity description: The Dead Rabbits were a notorious 19th-century Irish-American street gang in New York City, famously depicted in the film "Gangs of New York."
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A.
The Snakes
The Snakes is a subgroup affiliated with the Brooklyn hip-hop collective Junior M.A.F.I.A., associated with the mid-1990s East Coast rap scene.
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B.
Buckwild
Buckwild is an American hip-hop producer and member of the Diggin' in the Crates Crew (D.I.T.C.), known for his influential work with artists like The Notorious B.I.G., O.C., and Big L.
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C.
The Quails
The Quails is the nickname of Sacramento Republic FC, a professional soccer club based in Sacramento, California that competes in the USL Championship.
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D.
Dustheads
Dustheads is a vibrant 1982 neo-expressionist painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat, celebrated for its frenetic energy, bold colors, and depiction of figures associated with New York’s downtown street culture.
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E.
St. Lunatics
St. Lunatics is a hip hop group from St. Louis, Missouri, best known for launching the career of rapper Nelly and for their early-2000s chart successes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish-American gang
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historical organization ⓘ street gang ⓘ |
| activeIn | Five Points, Manhattan ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
Five Points neighborhood
ⓘ
linked to:
Two Bridges neighborhood
Lower East Side ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Tammany Hall ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| criminalActivity |
assault
ⓘ
gang warfare ⓘ rioting ⓘ street violence ⓘ theft ⓘ |
| culturalDepiction |
Gangs of New York (2002 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Gangs of New York
|
| demographic |
Irish-American second-generation members
ⓘ
predominantly Irish-born members ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Irish-American ⓘ |
| foundedInPeriod | 1840s–1850s ⓘ |
| gangType | street gang ⓘ |
| genre | organized crime group ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
New York City draft-era gang culture
ⓘ
pre–American Civil War era ⓘ |
| influenced | popular depictions of 19th-century New York gangs ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| location |
Lower Manhattan
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
books on New York City gang history
ⓘ
historical accounts of Five Points ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Dead Rabbits Riot
ⓘ
linked to:
Dead Rabbits
|
| notableFor |
conflict with nativist gangs
ⓘ
participation in the 1857 Dead Rabbits Riot ⓘ role in New York City gang history ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
Five Points slum
ⓘ
linked to:
Five Points, Manhattan
|
| opposedBy |
Bowery Boys
ⓘ
nativist groups ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Democratic Party (local urban politics) ⓘ |
| portrayedAs | Irish-American gang in Gangs of New York ⓘ |
| socialBase |
Irish immigrants
ⓘ
working-class population ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
19th century
ⓘ
mid-19th century ⓘ |
| yearOfEvent | 1857 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Dead Rabbits Description of subject: The Dead Rabbits were a notorious 19th-century Irish-American street gang in New York City, famously depicted in the film "Gangs of New York."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Dead Rabbits
linked to: Dead Rabbits