David Brooks
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David Brooks is an American conservative political and cultural commentator, author, and longtime columnist for The New York Times.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Brooks canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9232906 — 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: David Brooks Context triple: [Brooks, hasNotableBearer, David Brooks]
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A.
Bret Stephens
Bret Stephens is an American conservative journalist and columnist known for his incisive political commentary and foreign policy analysis.
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B.
George F. Will
George F. Will is a prominent American conservative political commentator, columnist, and author known for his erudite writing and long-running syndicated columns on U.S. politics and public affairs.
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C.
Michael Kinsley
Michael Kinsley is an American political journalist and commentator known for his influential work in opinion journalism and his leadership roles at several major publications.
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D.
Frank Rich
Frank Rich is an American essayist and former New York Times theater critic who later became a prominent television producer and creative consultant, notably on acclaimed HBO series.
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E.
Rich Lowry
Rich Lowry is an American conservative political commentator, author, and longtime editor-in-chief of the National Review magazine.
- 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: David Brooks Target entity description: David Brooks is an American conservative political and cultural commentator, author, and longtime columnist for The New York Times.
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A.
Bret Stephens
Bret Stephens is an American conservative journalist and columnist known for his incisive political commentary and foreign policy analysis.
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B.
George F. Will
George F. Will is a prominent American conservative political commentator, columnist, and author known for his erudite writing and long-running syndicated columns on U.S. politics and public affairs.
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C.
Michael Kinsley
Michael Kinsley is an American political journalist and commentator known for his influential work in opinion journalism and his leadership roles at several major publications.
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D.
Frank Rich
Frank Rich is an American essayist and former New York Times theater critic who later became a prominent television producer and creative consultant, notably on acclaimed HBO series.
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E.
Rich Lowry
Rich Lowry is an American conservative political commentator, author, and longtime editor-in-chief of the National Review magazine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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journalist ⓘ political commentator ⓘ television commentator ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Sidney Award (as creator and presenter of the award) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Canada
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1961-08-11 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Chicago ⓘ |
| employer | The New York Times ⓘ |
| familyName | Brooks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
culture
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politics ⓘ social criticism ⓘ |
| genre |
cultural commentary
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non-fiction ⓘ political commentary ⓘ |
| givenName | David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | three children ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | David Brooks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAppearance |
NPR
NERFINISHED
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PBS NewsHour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableIdea | Bobos (bourgeois bohemians) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense NERFINISHED ⓘ The Road to Character NERFINISHED ⓘ The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life NERFINISHED ⓘ The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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columnist ⓘ political commentator ⓘ television pundit ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Toronto, Ontario, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | conservative ⓘ |
| positionHeld | op-ed columnist at The New York Times ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence | Maryland, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Anne Snyder
NERFINISHED
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Sarah Brooks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wroteFor |
Newsweek
NERFINISHED
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The Atlantic NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wall Street Journal NERFINISHED ⓘ The Washington Times NERFINISHED ⓘ The Weekly Standard 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: David Brooks Description of subject: David Brooks is an American conservative political and cultural commentator, author, and longtime columnist for The New York Times.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.