The Crooked Man
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The Crooked Man is a major crime boss and manipulative antagonist in the noir-inspired fairy-tale world of the video game *The Wolf Among Us*.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Crooked Man | 3 |
| The Crooked Man canonical | 3 |
| the Crooked Man | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11705616 — 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: The Crooked Man Context triple: [The Wolf Among Us, supportingCharacter, The Crooked Man]
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A.
The Crooked Man
The Crooked Man is a film featuring Irish actor Liam Cunningham, likely a thriller or horror project in which he plays a prominent role.
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B.
The Crooked Way
The Crooked Way is a 1949 American film noir crime drama about an amnesiac war veteran drawn into a violent criminal underworld.
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C.
There Was a Crooked Man
"There Was a Crooked Man" is a British comedy film featuring Norman Wisdom in one of his characteristic comic roles.
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D.
The Scoundrel
The Scoundrel is a 1935 American drama film that gained prominence for its acclaimed original story and early Academy Award recognition.
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E.
The Dark Man
The Dark Man is a mysterious, malevolent figure who appears as a recurring antagonist in Stephen King’s interconnected universe, most notably in "The Stand" and "The Dark Tower" series.
- 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: The Crooked Man Target entity description: The Crooked Man is a major crime boss and manipulative antagonist in the noir-inspired fairy-tale world of the video game *The Wolf Among Us*.
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A.
The Crooked Man
The Crooked Man is a film featuring Irish actor Liam Cunningham, likely a thriller or horror project in which he plays a prominent role.
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B.
The Crooked Way
The Crooked Way is a 1949 American film noir crime drama about an amnesiac war veteran drawn into a violent criminal underworld.
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C.
There Was a Crooked Man
"There Was a Crooked Man" is a British comedy film featuring Norman Wisdom in one of his characteristic comic roles.
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D.
The Scoundrel
The Scoundrel is a 1935 American drama film that gained prominence for its acclaimed original story and early Academy Award recognition.
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E.
The Dark Man
The Dark Man is a mysterious, malevolent figure who appears as a recurring antagonist in Stephen King’s interconnected universe, most notably in "The Stand" and "The Dark Tower" series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
antagonist
ⓘ
crime boss ⓘ fictional character ⓘ video game character ⓘ |
| adaptedFrom |
Fables comic book series
ⓘ
linked to:
Fables by Bill Willingham
|
| alignment | villain ⓘ |
| antagonistOf |
Bigby Wolf
ⓘ
Snow White ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
The Wolf Among Us
ⓘ
The Wolf Among Us: Episode 3 – A Crooked Mile ⓘ
linked to:
The Wolf Among Us
The Wolf Among Us: Episode 4 – In Sheep’s Clothing ⓘ
linked to:
The Wolf Among Us
The Wolf Among Us: Episode 5 – Cry Wolf ⓘ |
| basedOn | There Was a Crooked Man (nursery rhyme) ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
calculating
ⓘ
charismatic ⓘ manipulative ⓘ ruthless ⓘ |
| controlsOrganization |
The Crooked Man’s crime syndicate
ⓘ
criminal underworld of Fabletown ⓘ |
| employs |
Bloody Mary
ⓘ
Georgie Porgie ⓘ Jersey Devil ⓘ The Tweedles ⓘ
linked to:
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
|
| franchise | Fables ⓘ |
| gameDeveloperOfWork | Telltale Games ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | episodic graphic adventure ⓘ |
| inUniverseActivity |
providing predatory loans to Fabletown residents
ⓘ
running illegal operations through intermediaries ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkAppearedIn | English ⓘ |
| medium | video game ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | symbol of systemic corruption in Fabletown ⓘ |
| occupation |
crime lord
ⓘ
loan shark ⓘ |
| platformOfWorkAppearedIn |
PC
ⓘ
PlayStation ⓘ Xbox ⓘ mobile devices ⓘ |
| roleInWork | primary antagonist in The Wolf Among Us ⓘ |
| setting | Fabletown ⓘ |
| universe | The Wolf Among Us universe ⓘ |
| uses |
blackmail
ⓘ
coercion ⓘ intimidation ⓘ |
| visualStyle | noir-inspired ⓘ |
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: The Crooked Man Description of subject: The Crooked Man is a major crime boss and manipulative antagonist in the noir-inspired fairy-tale world of the video game *The Wolf Among Us*.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Doctor Who episodes "Hide"
linked to: The Crooked Man
subject linked to:
Doctor Who episodes "Hide"
linked to: The Crooked Man
linked to: The Crooked Man
subject linked to:
Bloody Mary
linked to: The Crooked Man