Austin Grossman
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Austin Grossman is an American novelist and video game designer known for his work on narrative-driven games such as System Shock, Deus Ex, and Dishonored.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Austin Grossman canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11251615 — 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: Austin Grossman Context triple: [Dishonored, writer, Austin Grossman]
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A.
Josh Gudwin
Josh Gudwin is a Grammy-winning Canadian recording and mixing engineer best known for his work with major pop artists such as Justin Bieber.
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B.
Michael Grant
Michael Grant is a relatively private individual best known in public records as the former husband of Athena Grant.
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C.
Damon Quinn
Damon Quinn is a Northern Irish actor, comedian, and producer best known as a member of the comedy troupe Hole in the Wall Gang and for his work on the satirical TV series "Give My Head Peace."
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D.
Alex Hirsch
Alex Hirsch is an American animator, writer, and producer best known as the creator of the Disney Channel animated series "Gravity Falls."
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E.
Paul Brooks
Paul Brooks is known primarily as the husband of civil rights activist and Freedom Rider Catherine Burks-Brooks.
- 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: Austin Grossman Target entity description: Austin Grossman is an American novelist and video game designer known for his work on narrative-driven games such as System Shock, Deus Ex, and Dishonored.
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A.
Josh Gudwin
Josh Gudwin is a Grammy-winning Canadian recording and mixing engineer best known for his work with major pop artists such as Justin Bieber.
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B.
Michael Grant
Michael Grant is a relatively private individual best known in public records as the former husband of Athena Grant.
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C.
Damon Quinn
Damon Quinn is a Northern Irish actor, comedian, and producer best known as a member of the comedy troupe Hole in the Wall Gang and for his work on the satirical TV series "Give My Head Peace."
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D.
Alex Hirsch
Alex Hirsch is an American animator, writer, and producer best known as the creator of the Disney Channel animated series "Gravity Falls."
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E.
Paul Brooks
Paul Brooks is known primarily as the husband of civil rights activist and Freedom Rider Catherine Burks-Brooks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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novelist ⓘ video game designer ⓘ |
| basedOn | United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| employer |
Arkane Studios
NERFINISHED
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Crystal Dynamics NERFINISHED ⓘ DreamWorks Interactive NERFINISHED ⓘ Ion Storm NERFINISHED ⓘ Irrational Games NERFINISHED ⓘ LookingGlass Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
literature
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narrative design ⓘ video game industry ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy literature
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science fiction ⓘ superhero fiction ⓘ |
| hasWrittenForm |
novel
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short fiction ⓘ video game script ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blending superhero tropes with literary fiction in novels
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integrating complex narratives into video games ⓘ |
| notableRole |
designer of immersive sim games
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writer of narrative-driven video games ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Clive Barker's Undying
NERFINISHED
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Crooked NERFINISHED ⓘ Deus Ex NERFINISHED ⓘ Dishonored NERFINISHED ⓘ Dishonored 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Soon I Will Be Invincible NERFINISHED ⓘ System Shock NERFINISHED ⓘ Thief: Deadly Shadows NERFINISHED ⓘ Trespasser NERFINISHED ⓘ Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds NERFINISHED ⓘ YOU NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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video game designer ⓘ video game writer ⓘ |
| sibling |
Bathsheba Grossman
NERFINISHED
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Lev Grossman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
| writesInLanguage | English ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Austin Grossman Description of subject: Austin Grossman is an American novelist and video game designer known for his work on narrative-driven games such as System Shock, Deus Ex, and Dishonored.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.