Gutenberg the Geek
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Gutenberg the Geek is a book by media theorist Jeff Jarvis that reinterprets Johannes Gutenberg as an early tech entrepreneur to draw parallels between the printing revolution and the digital age.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gutenberg the Geek canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T866739 — 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: Gutenberg the Geek Context triple: [Jeff Jarvis, hasWritten, Gutenberg the Geek]
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A.
Gutenberg Bible copies
Gutenberg Bible copies are surviving exemplars of the first major book printed in Europe using movable metal type by Johannes Gutenberg in the mid-15th century, prized for their historical and bibliographic significance.
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B.
Geeks Bearing Gifts
Geeks Bearing Gifts is a book by computing pioneer Ted Nelson that reflects on the history, philosophy, and future of digital media and information technology.
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C.
Wonko the Sane
Wonko the Sane is an eccentric Californian marine biologist from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide series, known for building an inside-out asylum called the Outside of the Asylum to cope with the world's madness.
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D.
The Art of Book-Making
"The Art of Book-Making" is a humorous, satirical essay by Washington Irving that playfully critiques unoriginal authorship and literary plagiarism.
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E.
Codex
Codex is an AI system developed by OpenAI that translates natural language into code and powers tools like GitHub Copilot.
- 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: Gutenberg the Geek Target entity description: Gutenberg the Geek is a book by media theorist Jeff Jarvis that reinterprets Johannes Gutenberg as an early tech entrepreneur to draw parallels between the printing revolution and the digital age.
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A.
Gutenberg Bible copies
Gutenberg Bible copies are surviving exemplars of the first major book printed in Europe using movable metal type by Johannes Gutenberg in the mid-15th century, prized for their historical and bibliographic significance.
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B.
Geeks Bearing Gifts
Geeks Bearing Gifts is a book by computing pioneer Ted Nelson that reflects on the history, philosophy, and future of digital media and information technology.
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C.
Wonko the Sane
Wonko the Sane is an eccentric Californian marine biologist from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide series, known for building an inside-out asylum called the Outside of the Asylum to cope with the world's madness.
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D.
The Art of Book-Making
"The Art of Book-Making" is a humorous, satirical essay by Washington Irving that playfully critiques unoriginal authorship and literary plagiarism.
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E.
Codex
Codex is an AI system developed by OpenAI that translates natural language into code and powers tools like GitHub Copilot.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | book ⓘ |
| about |
history of printing
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impact of technology on society ⓘ parallels between print and digital media ⓘ |
| author | Jeff Jarvis ⓘ |
| compares |
Gutenberg's workshop to modern tech startups
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digital age ⓘ internet revolution ⓘ printing revolution ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| describes |
Johannes Gutenberg
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surface form:
Johannes Gutenberg as an early tech entrepreneur
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| focusesOn |
business aspects of Gutenberg's work
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economic implications of printing ⓘ technological innovation of movable type ⓘ |
| genre |
media studies
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non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasPerspective |
media theorist viewpoint
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technology-centric historical reinterpretation ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
disruption of established industries
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entrepreneurship ⓘ history of technology ⓘ innovation ⓘ media transformation ⓘ publishing ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
media professionals
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students of media studies ⓘ technology enthusiasts ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Johannes Gutenberg
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digital age ⓘ printing press ⓘ technology entrepreneurship ⓘ |
| portrays | Johannes Gutenberg as startup founder analogue ⓘ |
| publicationFormat | ebook ⓘ |
| publisher | Byliner ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Public Parts
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What Would Google Do? ⓘ |
| timePeriodDiscussed |
15th century
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21st century ⓘ |
| workExampleOf | media theory ⓘ |
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: Gutenberg the Geek Description of subject: Gutenberg the Geek is a book by media theorist Jeff Jarvis that reinterprets Johannes Gutenberg as an early tech entrepreneur to draw parallels between the printing revolution and the digital age.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.