Richard Preston
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Richard Preston is an American journalist and author best known for his nonfiction books about infectious diseases and biological threats, including the bestseller "The Hot Zone."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Preston canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10595348 — 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: Richard Preston Context triple: [The Hot Zone, author, Richard Preston]
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A.
Peter S. Seaman
Peter S. Seaman is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing major Hollywood films such as "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and "Shrek the Third."
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B.
Richard Q. Twiss
Richard Q. Twiss was a British physicist best known for co-discovering the Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect, which laid foundational work for modern quantum optics and intensity interferometry.
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C.
Peter H. Dominick
Peter H. Dominick was a Republican U.S. Senator from Colorado who served in the 1960s and early 1970s before being unseated by Democrat Gary Hart.
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D.
Douglas J. Foskett
Douglas J. Foskett was a British librarian and information scientist known for his influential work in library classification and information retrieval.
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E.
James R. Margulis
James R. Margulis is the husband of author and journalist Jennifer Margulis.
- 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: Richard Preston Target entity description: Richard Preston is an American journalist and author best known for his nonfiction books about infectious diseases and biological threats, including the bestseller "The Hot Zone."
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A.
Peter S. Seaman
Peter S. Seaman is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing major Hollywood films such as "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and "Shrek the Third."
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B.
Richard Q. Twiss
Richard Q. Twiss was a British physicist best known for co-discovering the Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect, which laid foundational work for modern quantum optics and intensity interferometry.
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C.
Peter H. Dominick
Peter H. Dominick was a Republican U.S. Senator from Colorado who served in the 1960s and early 1970s before being unseated by Democrat Gary Hart.
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D.
Douglas J. Foskett
Douglas J. Foskett was a British librarian and information scientist known for his influential work in library classification and information retrieval.
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E.
James R. Margulis
James R. Margulis is the husband of author and journalist Jennifer Margulis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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journalist ⓘ nonfiction writer ⓘ novel ⓘ person ⓘ |
| author |
Richard Preston
NERFINISHED
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Richard Preston NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Preston NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Preston NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Preston NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Preston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | New Jersey (historically associated) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Pomona College
NERFINISHED
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Princeton University ⓘ |
| employer | The New Yorker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
biological threats
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epidemiology (popularization) ⓘ infectious diseases ⓘ |
| genre |
nonfiction
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nonfiction ⓘ science writing ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Douglas Preston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWrittenFor |
The New York Times
NERFINISHED
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The New Yorker NERFINISHED ⓘ other major magazines ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Ebola virus
NERFINISHED
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Marburg virus NERFINISHED ⓘ smallpox ⓘ |
| name | Richard Preston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
popularizing information about Ebola virus
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writing about bioterrorism ⓘ writing about emerging viruses ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Crisis in the Red Zone
NERFINISHED
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First Light NERFINISHED ⓘ Micro NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cobra Event NERFINISHED ⓘ The Demon in the Freezer NERFINISHED ⓘ The Hot Zone NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wild Trees NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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journalist ⓘ science writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| spouse | Michelle Preston 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: Richard Preston Description of subject: Richard Preston is an American journalist and author best known for his nonfiction books about infectious diseases and biological threats, including the bestseller "The Hot Zone."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.