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Billy Bathgate is a 1989 novel by author E. L. Doctorow, telling the story of a young man who ingratiates himself with famous mobster Dutch Schultz. Though the Billy Bathgate character is fiction, Schultz and several others are based on real-life people.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Billy Bathgate | Author | E. L. Doctorow | 1.00 | infobox |
| Billy Bathgate | Genre | Crime | 1.00 | infobox |
| Billy Bathgate | Language | English | 1.00 | infobox |
| Billy Bathgate | Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Billy Bathgate | Pages | 323 pp | 1.00 | infobox |
| Billy Bathgate | Publication date | 1989 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Billy Bathgate | Publication place | United States | 1.00 | infobox |
| Billy Bathgate | Publisher | Random House | 1.00 | infobox |
| Billy Bathgate | is a | first sentence that appears in the book | 0.90 | text |
| Billy Bathgate | related to The novel | James Wood | 0.60 | section |
| Billy Bathgate | related to The novel | Earlier | 0.60 | section |
| Billy Bathgate | related to The novel | Doctorow | 0.60 | section |
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