Eric Weiner
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Eric Weiner is an American author and former NPR foreign correspondent best known for his travel and philosophy books such as "The Geography of Bliss."
All labels observed (1)
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| Eric Weiner canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7857769 — 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)
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Target entity: Eric Weiner Context triple: [Weiner, hasNotableBearer, Eric Weiner]
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A.
Alex Hutchinson
Alex Hutchinson is a video game designer and creative director best known for leading major titles at Ubisoft, including work on the Assassin’s Creed series.
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B.
Richard Lacayo
Richard Lacayo is an American journalist and critic best known for his long tenure at Time magazine, where he served as an art and literary critic and co-created major cultural lists and features.
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C.
Franklin Foer
Franklin Foer is an American journalist and author best known for serving as editor of the political and cultural magazine The New Republic.
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D.
Jeffrey Auerbach
Jeffrey Auerbach is a film producer best known for his work on the stop-motion animated feature "Corpse Bride."
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E.
Kurt Eichenwald
Kurt Eichenwald is an American journalist and author known for his investigative reporting and nonfiction books on corporate crime and financial scandals.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eric Weiner Target entity description: Eric Weiner is an American author and former NPR foreign correspondent best known for his travel and philosophy books such as "The Geography of Bliss."
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A.
Alex Hutchinson
Alex Hutchinson is a video game designer and creative director best known for leading major titles at Ubisoft, including work on the Assassin’s Creed series.
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B.
Richard Lacayo
Richard Lacayo is an American journalist and critic best known for his long tenure at Time magazine, where he served as an art and literary critic and co-created major cultural lists and features.
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C.
Franklin Foer
Franklin Foer is an American journalist and author best known for serving as editor of the political and cultural magazine The New Republic.
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D.
Jeffrey Auerbach
Jeffrey Auerbach is a film producer best known for his work on the stop-motion animated feature "Corpse Bride."
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E.
Kurt Eichenwald
Kurt Eichenwald is an American journalist and author known for his investigative reporting and nonfiction books on corporate crime and financial scandals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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human ⓘ journalist ⓘ non-fiction writer ⓘ |
| author |
Eric Weiner
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Eric Weiner ⓘ Eric Weiner ⓘ Eric Weiner ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Maryland ⓘ |
| employer | National Public Radio ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
journalism
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popular philosophy ⓘ travel writing ⓘ |
| genre |
memoir
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philosophy ⓘ travel literature ⓘ |
| hasWorkedAs |
NPR correspondent in Jerusalem
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NPR correspondent in New Delhi ⓘ NPR correspondent in Tokyo ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Man Seeks God
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The Geography of Bliss ⓘ The Geography of Genius ⓘ The Socrates Express ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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foreign correspondent ⓘ journalist ⓘ |
| workLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
culture
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happiness ⓘ philosophers ⓘ spirituality ⓘ |
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: Eric Weiner Description of subject: Eric Weiner is an American author and former NPR foreign correspondent best known for his travel and philosophy books such as "The Geography of Bliss."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Eric Weiner
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Eric Weiner
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Eric Weiner