The Poison Shirt
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The Poison Shirt is a story by William T. Vollmann included in his multi-volume fictional cycle Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes, exploring themes of history, violence, and cultural collision in North America.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Poison Shirt canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13619487 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: The Poison Shirt Context triple: [Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes, hasPart, The Poison Shirt]
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A.
Big Poison
Big Poison was the nickname of Paul Waner, a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball outfielder renowned for his exceptional hitting with the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1920s and 1930s.
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B.
Another Man's Poison
Another Man's Poison is a 1951 British film noir thriller starring Bette Davis, known for its dark psychological drama and twist-filled plot.
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C.
The Poisoners
The Poisoners is a spy novel by Donald Hamilton featuring his hard-edged government agent Matt Helm in a tense, morally ambiguous Cold War-era mission.
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D.
Poisoner in Chief
Poisoner in Chief is a nonfiction book by Stephen Kinzer that chronicles CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb’s central role in the agency’s secret mind-control experiments and MK-Ultra program during the Cold War.
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E.
The Black Stuff
The Black Stuff is a British television play by Alan Bleasdale that introduced the characters and themes later expanded in the acclaimed series Boys from the Blackstuff, focusing on working-class life and unemployment in Liverpool.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Poison Shirt Target entity description: The Poison Shirt is a story by William T. Vollmann included in his multi-volume fictional cycle Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes, exploring themes of history, violence, and cultural collision in North America.
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A.
Big Poison
Big Poison was the nickname of Paul Waner, a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball outfielder renowned for his exceptional hitting with the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1920s and 1930s.
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B.
Another Man's Poison
Another Man's Poison is a 1951 British film noir thriller starring Bette Davis, known for its dark psychological drama and twist-filled plot.
-
C.
The Poisoners
The Poisoners is a spy novel by Donald Hamilton featuring his hard-edged government agent Matt Helm in a tense, morally ambiguous Cold War-era mission.
-
D.
Poisoner in Chief
Poisoner in Chief is a nonfiction book by Stephen Kinzer that chronicles CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb’s central role in the agency’s secret mind-control experiments and MK-Ultra program during the Cold War.
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E.
The Black Stuff
The Black Stuff is a British television play by Alan Bleasdale that introduced the characters and themes later expanded in the acclaimed series Boys from the Blackstuff, focusing on working-class life and unemployment in Liverpool.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.