We Can Get Them for You Wholesale
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We Can Get Them for You Wholesale is a darkly comic short story by Neil Gaiman about a man who discovers a sinister assassination service offering bulk discounts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| We Can Get Them for You Wholesale canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6875497 — 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: We Can Get Them for You Wholesale Context triple: [Smoke and Mirrors, containsWork, We Can Get Them for You Wholesale]
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A.
The Big Box
The Big Box is a children's book by Toni Morrison that explores themes of freedom and control through the story of three kids who are confined to a special room despite their good behavior.
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B.
Queen of the Supermarket
"Queen of the Supermarket" is a romantic, narrative-driven song by Bruce Springsteen that portrays a supermarket cashier as an object of quiet admiration and longing.
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C.
The Shop
The Shop is the historic Royal Military Academy in Woolwich, London, which served as the British Army’s principal training institution for artillery and engineering officers.
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D.
The Go Getters
The Go Getters is a Chicago-based hip hop group that included rapper GLC among its members and was known for its early connections to Kanye West.
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E.
Zákupy
Zákupy is a small historic town in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic, known for its Renaissance-Baroque chateau and its association with the Habsburg dynasty.
- 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: We Can Get Them for You Wholesale Target entity description: We Can Get Them for You Wholesale is a darkly comic short story by Neil Gaiman about a man who discovers a sinister assassination service offering bulk discounts.
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A.
The Big Box
The Big Box is a children's book by Toni Morrison that explores themes of freedom and control through the story of three kids who are confined to a special room despite their good behavior.
-
B.
Queen of the Supermarket
"Queen of the Supermarket" is a romantic, narrative-driven song by Bruce Springsteen that portrays a supermarket cashier as an object of quiet admiration and longing.
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C.
The Shop
The Shop is the historic Royal Military Academy in Woolwich, London, which served as the British Army’s principal training institution for artillery and engineering officers.
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D.
The Go Getters
The Go Getters is a Chicago-based hip hop group that included rapper GLC among its members and was known for its early connections to Kanye West.
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E.
Zákupy
Zákupy is a small historic town in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic, known for its Renaissance-Baroque chateau and its association with the Habsburg dynasty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dark comedy
ⓘ
short story ⓘ work of fiction ⓘ |
| author | Neil Gaiman ⓘ |
| conflictType |
man versus self
ⓘ
man versus society ⓘ |
| containsElement | supernatural or uncanny organization ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| endingTone | bleak ⓘ |
| escalationDetail | assassination service offers cheaper rates for larger numbers of victims ⓘ |
| escalationDetail | protagonist expands contract from one target to many people ⓘ |
| firstPublicationForm | magazine short story ⓘ |
| genre |
dark comedy
ⓘ
fantasy ⓘ horror ⓘ |
| hasAssassinationService | sinister company offering bulk discounts on killings ⓘ |
| hasMotiveForUsingService | desire for revenge on unfaithful girlfriend ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
ironic
ⓘ
satirical ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Peter Pinter ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A man discovers a mysterious assassination service that offers bulk discounts and gradually orders more extensive killings. ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | office worker ⓘ |
| protagonistTrait |
petty
ⓘ
timid ⓘ |
| setting | contemporary city ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| theme |
assassination
ⓘ
bureaucracy ⓘ consumerism ⓘ escalation of violence ⓘ moral corruption ⓘ |
| tone | darkly comic ⓘ |
| workByAuthor | Neil Gaiman short fiction corpus ⓘ |
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: We Can Get Them for You Wholesale Description of subject: We Can Get Them for You Wholesale is a darkly comic short story by Neil Gaiman about a man who discovers a sinister assassination service offering bulk discounts.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.