Eggers
E490799
editor
human
literary journal
memoir
non-fiction writer
novel
novelist
publisher
publishing house
screenwriter
surname
Eggers is the surname of American writer, editor, and publisher Dave Eggers, known for works like "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" and for founding McSweeney’s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eggers canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5070829 — 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: Eggers Context triple: [Dave Eggers, familyName, Eggers]
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A.
Otto R. Eggers
Otto R. Eggers was an American architect best known for co-designing prominent Washington, D.C. monuments in the early 20th century.
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B.
Hooperman
Hooperman is an American television dramedy series from the late 1980s starring John Ritter as a San Francisco police inspector balancing his personal and professional life.
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C.
Giller
Giller is the commonly used short name for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, a prestigious Canadian literary award recognizing excellence in English-language fiction.
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D.
McClurg
McClurg is the namesake of the historic McClurg Building, a notable structure recognized for its architectural and cultural significance.
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E.
Eisenberg
Eisenberg is a surname most notably associated with American actress Hallie Kate Eisenberg.
- 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: Eggers Target entity description: Eggers is the surname of American writer, editor, and publisher Dave Eggers, known for works like "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" and for founding McSweeney’s.
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A.
Otto R. Eggers
Otto R. Eggers was an American architect best known for co-designing prominent Washington, D.C. monuments in the early 20th century.
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B.
Hooperman
Hooperman is an American television dramedy series from the late 1980s starring John Ritter as a San Francisco police inspector balancing his personal and professional life.
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C.
Giller
Giller is the commonly used short name for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, a prestigious Canadian literary award recognizing excellence in English-language fiction.
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D.
McClurg
McClurg is the namesake of the historic McClurg Building, a notable structure recognized for its architectural and cultural significance.
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E.
Eisenberg
Eisenberg is a surname most notably associated with American actress Hallie Kate Eisenberg.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
editor
ⓘ
human ⓘ literary journal ⓘ memoir ⓘ non-fiction writer ⓘ novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ publisher ⓘ publishing house ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| author | Dave Eggers ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Dayton Literary Peace Prize
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National Book Award finalist ⓘ Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction nomination ⓘ
linked to:
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction
TED Prize ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| founded |
826 Valencia
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McSweeney's ⓘ Valentino Achak Deng Foundation ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Dave Eggers ⓘ |
| genre |
autobiographical literature
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dystopian fiction ⓘ literary fiction ⓘ memoir ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| notableFor |
founding independent publishing house McSweeney's
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innovative memoir writing ⓘ literary activism and education initiatives ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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Heroes of the Frontier ⓘ The Circle ⓘ The Every ⓘ What Is the What ⓘ You Shall Know Our Velocity ⓘ Zeitoun ⓘ |
| occupation |
editor
ⓘ
publisher ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| usedBy | Dave Eggers ⓘ |
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: Eggers Description of subject: Eggers is the surname of American writer, editor, and publisher Dave Eggers, known for works like "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" and for founding McSweeney’s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.