Thieves Like Us
E509041
Thieves Like Us is a 1937 crime novel by Edward Anderson about two young lovers on the run with a gang of bank robbers in Depression-era America.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thieves Like Us canonical | 10 |
| Thieves Like Us (1947 film) | 1 |
| Thieves Like Us (1974 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5286696 — 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: Thieves Like Us Context triple: [They Live by Night, basedOn, Thieves Like Us]
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A.
Every Which Way but Loose
Every Which Way but Loose is a 1978 American action-comedy film starring Clint Eastwood as a trucker and bare-knuckle brawler who travels with his pet orangutan.
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B.
Let the Bad Times Roll
Let the Bad Times Roll is a studio album by American punk rock band The Offspring, known for its blend of melodic punk, alternative rock, and socially charged lyrics.
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C.
Chain of Fools
"Chain of Fools" is a classic 1967 soul song performed by Aretha Franklin, renowned for its powerful vocals, driving groove, and enduring influence in R&B music.
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D.
One Way Out
One Way Out is a celebrated live album by the Allman Brothers Band that captures their improvisational Southern rock sound in concert.
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E.
The Thrill Is Gone
"The Thrill Is Gone" is a classic blues song popularized by B.B. King that became one of his signature hits and a defining anthem of modern electric blues.
- 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: Thieves Like Us Target entity description: Thieves Like Us is a 1937 crime novel by Edward Anderson about two young lovers on the run with a gang of bank robbers in Depression-era America.
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A.
Every Which Way but Loose
Every Which Way but Loose is a 1978 American action-comedy film starring Clint Eastwood as a trucker and bare-knuckle brawler who travels with his pet orangutan.
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B.
Let the Bad Times Roll
Let the Bad Times Roll is a studio album by American punk rock band The Offspring, known for its blend of melodic punk, alternative rock, and socially charged lyrics.
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C.
Chain of Fools
"Chain of Fools" is a classic 1967 soul song performed by Aretha Franklin, renowned for its powerful vocals, driving groove, and enduring influence in R&B music.
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D.
One Way Out
One Way Out is a celebrated live album by the Allman Brothers Band that captures their improvisational Southern rock sound in concert.
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E.
The Thrill Is Gone
"The Thrill Is Gone" is a classic blues song popularized by B.B. King that became one of his signature hits and a defining anthem of modern electric blues.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
ⓘ
novel ⓘ |
| adaptedInto |
Thieves Like Us (1947 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Thieves Like Us
Thieves Like Us (1974 film) ⓘ
linked to:
Thieves Like Us
|
| author | Edward Anderson ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| depicts |
bank robbery
ⓘ
criminal underworld in the American South ⓘ life during the Great Depression ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
romantic fiction ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | American crime fiction ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | hardboiled fiction ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| mainCharacters | two young lovers ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
crime
ⓘ
fugitive life ⓘ love ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | third-person narrative ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Two young lovers go on the run with a gang of bank robbers in Depression-era America. ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1937 ⓘ |
| publisher | United States publisher (specific imprint not confirmed) ⓘ |
| settingCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| settingPeriod | Great Depression ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
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: Thieves Like Us Description of subject: Thieves Like Us is a 1937 crime novel by Edward Anderson about two young lovers on the run with a gang of bank robbers in Depression-era America.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.