Max Brooks
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Max Brooks is an American author and screenwriter best known for his zombie-themed works such as "World War Z" and "The Zombie Survival Guide."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Max Brooks canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4750849 — 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: Max Brooks Context triple: [The Great Wall (2016 film), storyBy, Max Brooks]
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A.
Paul Brooks
Paul Brooks is known primarily as the husband of civil rights activist and Freedom Rider Catherine Burks-Brooks.
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B.
Max Allan Collins
Max Allan Collins is an American mystery and crime writer best known for his graphic novel "Road to Perdition" and his extensive work in detective fiction and tie-in novels.
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C.
Rand Brooks
Rand Brooks was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in classic Hollywood productions such as "Gone with the Wind" and numerous Westerns.
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D.
Greg Iles
Greg Iles is an American novelist best known for his suspense and crime thrillers, many set in the American South.
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E.
Robert Kirkman
Robert Kirkman is an American comic book writer and television producer best known as the creator of the post-apocalyptic horror series "The Walking Dead."
- 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: Max Brooks Target entity description: Max Brooks is an American author and screenwriter best known for his zombie-themed works such as "World War Z" and "The Zombie Survival Guide."
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A.
Paul Brooks
Paul Brooks is known primarily as the husband of civil rights activist and Freedom Rider Catherine Burks-Brooks.
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B.
Max Allan Collins
Max Allan Collins is an American mystery and crime writer best known for his graphic novel "Road to Perdition" and his extensive work in detective fiction and tie-in novels.
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C.
Rand Brooks
Rand Brooks was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in classic Hollywood productions such as "Gone with the Wind" and numerous Westerns.
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D.
Greg Iles
Greg Iles is an American novelist best known for his suspense and crime thrillers, many set in the American South.
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E.
Robert Kirkman
Robert Kirkman is an American comic book writer and television producer best known as the creator of the post-apocalyptic horror series "The Walking Dead."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| basedIn | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| birthName | Maximillian Michael Brooks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1972-05-22 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Pitzer College
NERFINISHED
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USC School of Cinematic Arts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Saturday Night Live NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Brooks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Mel Brooks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
horror fiction
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speculative fiction ⓘ zombie fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Maximillian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | one son ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | http://www.maxbrooks.com/ ⓘ |
| influencedBy | George A. Romero NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mother | Anne Bancroft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Max Brooks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | zombie-themed fiction ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
NERFINISHED
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G.I. Joe: Hearts & Minds NERFINISHED ⓘ Harlem Hellfighters NERFINISHED ⓘ Minecraft: The Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Minecraft: The Mountain NERFINISHED ⓘ The Zombie Survival Guide NERFINISHED ⓘ The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks NERFINISHED ⓘ World War Z NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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screenwriter ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| positionHeld | television writer ⓘ |
| spouse | Michelle Kholos Brooks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote |
Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
NERFINISHED
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G.I. Joe: Hearts & Minds NERFINISHED ⓘ Harlem Hellfighters NERFINISHED ⓘ Minecraft: The Island NERFINISHED ⓘ Minecraft: The Mountain NERFINISHED ⓘ The Zombie Survival Guide NERFINISHED ⓘ The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks NERFINISHED ⓘ World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
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: Max Brooks Description of subject: Max Brooks is an American author and screenwriter best known for his zombie-themed works such as "World War Z" and "The Zombie Survival Guide."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.