Cory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow is a Canadian-British science fiction author, technology activist, and co-editor of the blog Boing Boing, known for his work on digital rights, copyright reform, and internet freedom.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cory Doctorow canonical | 44 |
| Canadian-British author Cory Doctorow | 1 |
| Cory Doctorow as his "linkblog" and commentary site | 1 |
| Cory Efram Doctorow | 1 |
| Doctorow | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20327 — 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: Cory Doctorow Context triple: [Yurii Rubinsky Memorial Award, hasNotableRecipient, Cory Doctorow]
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John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow was an American poet, essayist, and digital rights activist best known as a lyricist for the Grateful Dead and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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Ted Wheeler
Ted Wheeler is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who has served as the mayor of Portland, Oregon, overseeing the city through periods of significant protest and policy debate.
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C.
Valeria Wasserman
Valeria Wasserman is a Brazilian linguist and translator best known as the wife of renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky.
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D.
Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman is an American software freedom activist and programmer best known for founding the Free Software Foundation and initiating the GNU Project, which laid the groundwork for the free and open-source software movement.
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E.
Richard Bolt
Richard Bolt was an American acoustician and co-founder of the influential research and engineering firm Bolt Beranek and Newman, known for its pioneering work in acoustics and computer networking.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Cory Doctorow Target entity description: Cory Doctorow is a Canadian-British science fiction author, technology activist, and co-editor of the blog Boing Boing, known for his work on digital rights, copyright reform, and internet freedom.
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A.
John Perry Barlow
John Perry Barlow was an American poet, essayist, and digital rights activist best known as a lyricist for the Grateful Dead and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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B.
Ted Wheeler
Ted Wheeler is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who has served as the mayor of Portland, Oregon, overseeing the city through periods of significant protest and policy debate.
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C.
Valeria Wasserman
Valeria Wasserman is a Brazilian linguist and translator best known as the wife of renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky.
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D.
Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman is an American software freedom activist and programmer best known for founding the Free Software Foundation and initiating the GNU Project, which laid the groundwork for the free and open-source software movement.
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E.
Richard Bolt
Richard Bolt was an American acoustician and co-founder of the influential research and engineering firm Bolt Beranek and Newman, known for its pioneering work in acoustics and computer networking.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (66)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
blogger
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digital rights activist ⓘ essayist ⓘ human ⓘ journalist ⓘ novelist ⓘ podcaster ⓘ science fiction author ⓘ short story writer ⓘ technology activist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
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Locus Award ⓘ Prometheus Award ⓘ |
| birthName |
Cory Doctorow
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Cory Efram Doctorow
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| blog |
Boing Boing
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Pluralistic ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Canada
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1971-07-17 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | SEED Alternative School ⓘ |
| employer | Boing Boing ⓘ |
| familyName |
Cory Doctorow
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Doctorow
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| fieldOfWork |
copyright reform
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digital rights ⓘ internet freedom ⓘ science fiction ⓘ technology policy ⓘ |
| givenName | Cory ⓘ |
| hasCreativeCommonsLicensedWorks | true ⓘ |
| hasWrittenGenre |
non-fiction
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science fiction ⓘ young adult fiction ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy for copyright reform
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advocacy for digital rights ⓘ advocacy for internet freedom ⓘ criticism of digital rights management ⓘ use of Creative Commons licenses for his works ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
copyleft
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digital rights movement ⓘ free culture movement ⓘ open access ⓘ |
| name | Cory Doctorow self-link ⓘ |
| nationality |
British
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Canadian ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Attack Surface
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Chokepoint Capitalism ⓘ Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom ⓘ Eastern Standard Tribe ⓘ For the Win ⓘ Homeland ⓘ Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free ⓘ Little Brother ⓘ Makers ⓘ Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town ⓘ Walkaway ⓘ |
| occupation |
blogger
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journalist ⓘ public speaker ⓘ science fiction writer ⓘ technology activist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Toronto
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surface form:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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| positionHeld | co-editor of Boing Boing ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| website | https://craphound.com/ ⓘ |
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: Cory Doctorow Description of subject: Cory Doctorow is a Canadian-British science fiction author, technology activist, and co-editor of the blog Boing Boing, known for his work on digital rights, copyright reform, and internet freedom.
Referenced by (48)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.