Neal Stephenson

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cyberpunk writer essay human novel novel series novelist science fiction writer speculative fiction author

Neal Stephenson is an American speculative fiction author known for his dense, idea-driven novels that blend science, history, technology, and philosophy, such as "Snow Crash" and "Cryptonomicon."

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Label	Occurrences
Neal Stephenson canonical	19

Statements (96)

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awardReceived	Hugo Award ⓘ surface form: Hugo Award nomination Locus Award ⓘ Prometheus Award ⓘ
coinedBy	Neal Stephenson self-linksurface differs ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1959-10-31 ⓘ
educatedAt	Boston University ⓘ
familyName	Stephenson ⓘ
fieldOfWork	historical fiction ⓘ science fiction literature ⓘ speculative fiction ⓘ
firstAppearedIn	Snow Crash ⓘ
genre	cyberpunk ⓘ cyberpunk ⓘ historical fiction ⓘ historical fiction ⓘ historical fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ speculative fiction ⓘ techno-thriller ⓘ
givenName	Neal ⓘ
hasPart	Quicksilver ⓘ The Confusion ⓘ The System of the World ⓘ
hasWrittenAbout	computer science ⓘ cryptography ⓘ history ⓘ mathematics ⓘ nanotechnology ⓘ philosophy ⓘ virtual reality ⓘ
hasWrittenNonfiction	In the Beginning... Was the Command Line ⓘ
influencedBy	Jorge Luis Borges ⓘ Thomas Pynchon ⓘ William Gibson ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
name	Neal Stephenson self-link ⓘ
notableConcept	Metaverse ⓘ
notableSeries	The Baroque Cycle ⓘ
notableWork	Anathem ⓘ Cryptonomicon ⓘ Fall; or, Dodge in Hell ⓘ Reamde ⓘ Seveneves ⓘ Snow Crash ⓘ The Diamond Age ⓘ
occupation	essayist ⓘ game designer ⓘ novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Fort Meade, Maryland ⓘ surface form: Fort Meade, Maryland, United States
publicationDate	1992 ⓘ 1995 ⓘ 1999 ⓘ 2008 ⓘ 2011 ⓘ 2015 ⓘ 2019 ⓘ
writingStyle	dense prose ⓘ idea-driven ⓘ

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: Neal Stephenson
Description of subject: Neal Stephenson is an American speculative fiction author known for his dense, idea-driven novels that blend science, history, technology, and philosophy, such as "Snow Crash" and "Cryptonomicon."

Referenced by (19)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Arthur C. Clarke Award → notableWinner → Neal Stephenson ⓘ

Prometheus Award → notableWinner → Neal Stephenson ⓘ

Neal Stephenson → name → Neal Stephenson self-link ⓘ