America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
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America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization is a controversial non-fiction book by Graham Hancock that argues for the existence of an advanced, prehistoric civilization in the Americas long before conventional history acknowledges.
All labels observed (2)
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| America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization canonical | 1 |
| The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1006160 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization Context triple: [Graham Hancock, notableWork, America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization]
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Before the Flood
Before the Flood is a 1974 live album capturing Bob Dylan and The Band’s energetic performances from their celebrated reunion tour.
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B.
Prehistoric Planet
Prehistoric Planet is a visually rich, scientifically grounded nature documentary series that recreates the lives and environments of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures using cutting-edge CGI and natural-history storytelling.
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C.
Die Culturländer des alten Amerika
Die Culturländer des alten Amerika is a scholarly work by ethnologist Adolf Bastian that examines the civilizations and cultures of pre-Columbian America.
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D.
The Lost City of Z
The Lost City of Z is a 2016 biographical adventure film about British explorer Percy Fawcett’s obsessive search for a fabled ancient civilization in the Amazon rainforest.
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E.
The American Adventure
The American Adventure is a patriotic pavilion and audio-animatronic stage show at EPCOT in Walt Disney World that chronicles key moments in United States history.
- 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: America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization Target entity description: America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization is a controversial non-fiction book by Graham Hancock that argues for the existence of an advanced, prehistoric civilization in the Americas long before conventional history acknowledges.
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A.
Before the Flood
Before the Flood is a 1974 live album capturing Bob Dylan and The Band’s energetic performances from their celebrated reunion tour.
-
B.
Prehistoric Planet
Prehistoric Planet is a visually rich, scientifically grounded nature documentary series that recreates the lives and environments of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures using cutting-edge CGI and natural-history storytelling.
-
C.
Die Culturländer des alten Amerika
Die Culturländer des alten Amerika is a scholarly work by ethnologist Adolf Bastian that examines the civilizations and cultures of pre-Columbian America.
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D.
The Lost City of Z
The Lost City of Z is a 2016 biographical adventure film about British explorer Percy Fawcett’s obsessive search for a fabled ancient civilization in the Amazon rainforest.
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E.
The American Adventure
The American Adventure is a patriotic pavilion and audio-animatronic stage show at EPCOT in Walt Disney World that chronicles key moments in United States history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book
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non-fiction book ⓘ |
| arguesFor |
greater antiquity of complex societies in the Americas
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reassessment of the timeline of human civilization in the Americas ⓘ |
| author | Graham Hancock ⓘ |
| centralClaim |
an advanced prehistoric civilization existed in the Americas long before conventional history acknowledges
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this advanced civilization was largely destroyed by a global cataclysm at the end of the last Ice Age ⓘ |
| controversial | yes ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticizedBy | mainstream archaeologists ⓘ |
| criticizedFor |
misrepresenting archaeological evidence
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promoting pseudoarchaeological interpretations ⓘ |
| genre |
non-fiction
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pseudoarchaeology literature ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 978-1-473-62211-3 ⓘ |
| hasPageCount | 608 ⓘ |
| hasSubtitle |
America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
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| includesTopic |
Younger Dryas impact hypothesis
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ancient myths and oral traditions of Native American peoples ⓘ pre-Clovis archaeological evidence ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| marketedAs | investigative non-fiction ⓘ |
| mediaType |
audiobook
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ebook ⓘ print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
popularizing the idea of a lost advanced civilization in the Americas
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sparking debate about pre-Clovis human presence in the Americas ⓘ |
| positionInAuthorCareer | later work in Graham Hancock's series on lost civilizations ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2019 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Crown
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surface form:
Coronet
St. Martin's Press ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Fingerprints of the Gods
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Magicians of the Gods ⓘ |
| structure | divided into multiple thematic parts covering archaeology, geology, and mythology ⓘ |
| subject |
alternative history
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archaeology ⓘ lost civilizations ⓘ prehistory of the Americas ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general readership interested in alternative history ⓘ |
| usesEvidenceFrom |
Amazon rainforest geoglyphs
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archaeological sites in North America ⓘ archaeological sites in South America ⓘ mound sites in North America ⓘ recent discoveries at sites such as Monte Verde ⓘ |
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Subject: America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization Description of subject: America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization is a controversial non-fiction book by Graham Hancock that argues for the existence of an advanced, prehistoric civilization in the Americas long before conventional history acknowledges.
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America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
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The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization