Murder, Inc.
E21837
Murder, Inc. was a notorious organized crime group in the 1930s–1940s that served as the enforcement arm of the American Mafia, carrying out contract killings for various crime families.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Murder, Inc. canonical | 22 |
| American Mafia | 6 |
| Murder Incorporated | 2 |
| Murder, Inc. crime syndicate | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T171173 — 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.
Target entity: Murder, Inc. Context triple: [Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, memberOf, Murder, Inc.]
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A.
Bugsy
Bugsy was the notorious American mobster Benjamin Siegel, a key figure in the development of Las Vegas and organized crime in the early 20th century.
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B.
American Gangster
American Gangster is a 2007 crime drama film starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe that chronicles the rise and fall of Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas in 1970s New York City.
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C.
Trial of the Twenty-One
The Trial of the Twenty-One was a 1938 Soviet show trial in Moscow in which prominent Old Bolsheviks and party leaders were accused of treason and executed, marking one of the most infamous episodes of Stalin’s Great Purge.
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D.
Vecherniy Kvartal
Vecherniy Kvartal is a popular Ukrainian comedy and satirical TV show known for its sketches, political humor, and live performances.
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E.
The Snake Pit
The Snake Pit is a 1948 psychological drama film about a woman’s harrowing experiences in a mental institution, noted for its early, serious depiction of mental illness.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Murder, Inc. Target entity description: Murder, Inc. was a notorious organized crime group in the 1930s–1940s that served as the enforcement arm of the American Mafia, carrying out contract killings for various crime families.
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A.
Bugsy
Bugsy was the notorious American mobster Benjamin Siegel, a key figure in the development of Las Vegas and organized crime in the early 20th century.
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B.
American Gangster
American Gangster is a 2007 crime drama film starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe that chronicles the rise and fall of Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas in 1970s New York City.
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C.
Trial of the Twenty-One
The Trial of the Twenty-One was a 1938 Soviet show trial in Moscow in which prominent Old Bolsheviks and party leaders were accused of treason and executed, marking one of the most infamous episodes of Stalin’s Great Purge.
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D.
Vecherniy Kvartal
Vecherniy Kvartal is a popular Ukrainian comedy and satirical TV show known for its sketches, political humor, and live performances.
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E.
The Snake Pit
The Snake Pit is a 1948 psychological drama film about a woman’s harrowing experiences in a mental institution, noted for its early, serious depiction of mental illness.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
contract killing organization
ⓘ
enforcement arm of the American Mafia ⓘ organized crime group ⓘ |
| activeInDecade |
1930s
ⓘ
1940s ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Murder, Inc.
ⓘ
surface form:
Murder Incorporated
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| associatedWith |
Murder, Inc.
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
American Mafia
National Crime Syndicate ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Brooklyn
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| controlledBy |
Albert Anastasia
ⓘ
Lepke Buchalter ⓘ
surface form:
Louis "Lepke" Buchalter
|
| countryOfOperation |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dismantledBy | law enforcement investigations in early 1940s ⓘ |
| employedBy |
Luciano crime family
ⓘ
Luciano crime family ⓘ
surface form:
Mangano crime family
other Italian‑American Mafia families ⓘ various New York Mafia crime families ⓘ |
| estimatedMurdersCommitted | hundreds ⓘ |
| ethnicComposition |
Italian-American gangsters
ⓘ
primarily Jewish-American gangsters ⓘ |
| formedAs | enforcement arm for the National Crime Syndicate ⓘ |
| historicalReputation | one of the most feared hit squads in American organized crime history ⓘ |
| keyEvent |
Abe Reles became a government informant
ⓘ
trials and convictions of many members in early 1940s ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| linkedTo | assassination plots against rival gangsters ⓘ |
| mediaCoverage |
subject of films and documentaries
ⓘ
subject of numerous books ⓘ |
| methodOfOperation |
professional contract killings
ⓘ
use of guns, ice picks, strangulation, and other methods ⓘ |
| notableLeader |
Albert Anastasia
ⓘ
Lepke Buchalter ⓘ
surface form:
Louis "Lepke" Buchalter
|
| notableMember |
Abe Reles
ⓘ
Allie "Tick Tock" Tannenbaum ⓘ Charles "The Bug" Workman ⓘ Frank "Dasher" Abbandando ⓘ Harry "Pittsburgh Phil" Strauss ⓘ Harry Maione ⓘ Martin "Buggsy" Goldstein ⓘ |
| notableOutcome |
execution of Louis "Lepke" Buchalter
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execution of several hitmen in the electric chair ⓘ |
| notableVictim | Dutch Schultz ⓘ |
| operationalArea |
New Jersey, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
New Jersey
New York ⓘ other parts of the United States ⓘ |
| primaryActivity |
contract killing
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enforcement for Mafia crime families ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Prohibition era and post‑Prohibition era ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Murder, Inc. Description of subject: Murder, Inc. was a notorious organized crime group in the 1930s–1940s that served as the enforcement arm of the American Mafia, carrying out contract killings for various crime families.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.