Small Time Crooks
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Small Time Crooks is a 2000 Woody Allen comedy film about a group of inept criminals whose cookie-shop front unexpectedly turns into a wildly successful business.
All labels observed (1)
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| Small Time Crooks canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5742210 — 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: Small Time Crooks Context triple: [Tracey Ullman, notableWork, Small Time Crooks]
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A.
Clockers
Clockers is a 1995 crime drama film directed by Spike Lee that explores urban drug dealing, violence, and moral ambiguity in a Brooklyn housing project.
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B.
Al Capone of New Jersey
Al Capone of New Jersey was the notorious nickname of Prohibition-era mobster Longy Zwillman, a powerful organized crime boss who dominated bootlegging and racketeering in New Jersey.
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C.
Crime Pays
Crime Pays is a 2009 studio album by Harlem rapper Cam'ron, known for its gritty street narratives and return-to-form sound.
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D.
The Racketeer
The Racketeer is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham that follows a wrongfully imprisoned lawyer who leverages inside knowledge of a federal judge’s murder to bargain for his freedom and revenge.
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E.
the Mob's Accountant
The Mob's Accountant was the nickname of Meyer Lansky, a major organized crime figure who managed and laundered the financial operations of the American Mafia in the mid-20th century.
- 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: Small Time Crooks Target entity description: Small Time Crooks is a 2000 Woody Allen comedy film about a group of inept criminals whose cookie-shop front unexpectedly turns into a wildly successful business.
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A.
Clockers
Clockers is a 1995 crime drama film directed by Spike Lee that explores urban drug dealing, violence, and moral ambiguity in a Brooklyn housing project.
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B.
Al Capone of New Jersey
Al Capone of New Jersey was the notorious nickname of Prohibition-era mobster Longy Zwillman, a powerful organized crime boss who dominated bootlegging and racketeering in New Jersey.
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C.
Crime Pays
Crime Pays is a 2009 studio album by Harlem rapper Cam'ron, known for its gritty street narratives and return-to-form sound.
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D.
The Racketeer
The Racketeer is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham that follows a wrongfully imprisoned lawyer who leverages inside knowledge of a federal judge’s murder to bargain for his freedom and revenge.
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E.
the Mob's Accountant
The Mob's Accountant was the nickname of Meyer Lansky, a major organized crime figure who managed and laundered the financial operations of the American Mafia in the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| character |
David
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Frenchy Winkler NERFINISHED ⓘ May Sloane NERFINISHED ⓘ Ray Winkler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Zhao Fei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Woody Allen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | DreamWorks Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Alisa Lepselter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
crime comedy film ⓘ |
| hasPlotSummary | A group of inept criminals open a cookie shop as a front for a bank heist, but the cookie business becomes unexpectedly successful. ⓘ |
| hasTagline | They took a bite out of crime. ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
crime and entrepreneurship
ⓘ
get-rich-quick schemes ⓘ social class mobility ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
cookie shop business
ⓘ
inept criminals ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG ⓘ |
| musicBy | Steven Bernstein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Woody Allen filmography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrays |
Elaine May as May Sloane
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hugh Grant as David ⓘ Tracey Ullman as Frenchy Winkler NERFINISHED ⓘ Woody Allen as Ray Winkler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
DreamWorks Pictures
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sweetland Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2000-05-19 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2000 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 94 ⓘ |
| screenplayBy | Woody Allen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | contemporary era ⓘ |
| starring |
Elaine May
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elaine Stritch NERFINISHED ⓘ George Grizzard NERFINISHED ⓘ Hugh Grant NERFINISHED ⓘ Jon Lovitz NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Rapaport NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Darrow NERFINISHED ⓘ Tracey Ullman NERFINISHED ⓘ Woody Allen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Woody Allen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Small Time Crooks Description of subject: Small Time Crooks is a 2000 Woody Allen comedy film about a group of inept criminals whose cookie-shop front unexpectedly turns into a wildly successful business.
Referenced by (5)
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