Permanent Record
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Permanent Record is Edward Snowden’s memoir detailing his role in exposing global mass surveillance programs and the personal, ethical, and political consequences of his whistleblowing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Permanent Record canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T861940 — 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: Permanent Record Context triple: [Edward Snowden, authorOf, Permanent Record]
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A.
Chronicle
Chronicle is an early Christian universal history by Eusebius of Caesarea that synchronizes biblical events with secular historical timelines.
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B.
Pages of Testimony
Pages of Testimony are individual biographical forms documenting the lives and fates of Jewish Holocaust victims, preserved as a central memorial and archival resource at Yad Vashem.
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C.
Blowback
Blowback is a political nonfiction book by Chalmers Johnson that critiques U.S. foreign policy and explores how American military and economic actions abroad can provoke unintended and often violent consequences.
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D.
The Blueprint
The Blueprint is a critically acclaimed 2001 studio album by Jay-Z, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential hip-hop records of all time.
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E.
Keeper of the Seals
The Keeper of the Seals is a historic French government office traditionally held by the Minister of Justice, responsible for the custody and use of the Great Seal of France and associated legal and ceremonial functions.
- 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: Permanent Record Target entity description: Permanent Record is Edward Snowden’s memoir detailing his role in exposing global mass surveillance programs and the personal, ethical, and political consequences of his whistleblowing.
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A.
Chronicle
Chronicle is an early Christian universal history by Eusebius of Caesarea that synchronizes biblical events with secular historical timelines.
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B.
Pages of Testimony
Pages of Testimony are individual biographical forms documenting the lives and fates of Jewish Holocaust victims, preserved as a central memorial and archival resource at Yad Vashem.
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C.
Blowback
Blowback is a political nonfiction book by Chalmers Johnson that critiques U.S. foreign policy and explores how American military and economic actions abroad can provoke unintended and often violent consequences.
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D.
The Blueprint
The Blueprint is a critically acclaimed 2001 studio album by Jay-Z, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential hip-hop records of all time.
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E.
Keeper of the Seals
The Keeper of the Seals is a historic French government office traditionally held by the Minister of Justice, responsible for the custody and use of the Great Seal of France and associated legal and ceremonial functions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
memoir
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non-fiction book ⓘ |
| author | Edward Snowden ⓘ |
| awarded | Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest (finalist) ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| describesEvent |
2013 global surveillance disclosures
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Edward Snowden’s asylum in Russia ⓘ NSA mass surveillance programs ⓘ |
| genre |
autobiography
ⓘ
political memoir ⓘ |
| hasAudiobookNarrator |
Edward Snowden
ⓘ
Holter Graham ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
conscience and personal responsibility
ⓘ
ethics of whistleblowing ⓘ individual privacy versus state security ⓘ power of technology in surveillance ⓘ |
| isbn10 | 1250237238 ⓘ |
| isbn13 | 9781250237231 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| legalIssue | breach of non-disclosure agreements ⓘ |
| legalOutcome | royalties seized by U.S. government ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Edward Snowden
ⓘ
National Security Agency ⓘ United States intelligence community ⓘ
linked to:
United States Intelligence Community
civil liberties ⓘ global mass surveillance ⓘ privacy ⓘ whistleblowing ⓘ |
| mediaType |
audiobook
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ebook ⓘ print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
critique of mass surveillance and government secrecy
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detailed account of NSA and CIA work by Edward Snowden ⓘ explanation of motivations for 2013 surveillance leaks ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Permanent Record ⓘ |
| pageCount | approximately 336 ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | New York City ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2019-09-17 ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2019 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Macmillan Publishers
ⓘ
Metropolitan Books ⓘ |
| setting |
Geneva
ⓘ
Hawaii ⓘ Hong Kong ⓘ
linked to:
Hong Kong, China
Russia ⓘ Tokyo ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| subjectOfLegalAction | United States Department of Justice civil lawsuit ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Permanent Record Description of subject: Permanent Record is Edward Snowden’s memoir detailing his role in exposing global mass surveillance programs and the personal, ethical, and political consequences of his whistleblowing.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.