The Facebook Effect
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The Facebook Effect is a nonfiction book by David Kirkpatrick that chronicles the founding, growth, and global impact of Facebook on technology, business, and society.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Facebook Effect canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1463800 — 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: The Facebook Effect Context triple: [David Kirkpatrick, notableWork, The Facebook Effect]
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A.
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires is a nonfiction book that examines the recurring cycle of openness and monopolistic control in communications and information industries throughout modern history.
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B.
The Tipping Point
The Tipping Point is a 2004 studio album by hip-hop band The Roots that blends socially conscious lyrics with live-instrumentation and experimental production.
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C.
The Tipping Point
The Tipping Point is a bestselling non-fiction book by Malcolm Gladwell that explores how small, seemingly minor actions or events can trigger large-scale social change and trends.
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D.
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads is a nonfiction book that traces the history and mechanics of the attention economy, examining how media, advertising, and technology industries capture and monetize human attention.
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E.
Masters of Scale
Masters of Scale is a business and entrepreneurship podcast that explores how companies grow from startup to massive scale through interviews with leading founders and innovators.
- 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: The Facebook Effect Target entity description: The Facebook Effect is a nonfiction book by David Kirkpatrick that chronicles the founding, growth, and global impact of Facebook on technology, business, and society.
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A.
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires is a nonfiction book that examines the recurring cycle of openness and monopolistic control in communications and information industries throughout modern history.
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B.
The Tipping Point
The Tipping Point is a 2004 studio album by hip-hop band The Roots that blends socially conscious lyrics with live-instrumentation and experimental production.
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C.
The Tipping Point
The Tipping Point is a bestselling non-fiction book by Malcolm Gladwell that explores how small, seemingly minor actions or events can trigger large-scale social change and trends.
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D.
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads is a nonfiction book that traces the history and mechanics of the attention economy, examining how media, advertising, and technology industries capture and monetize human attention.
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E.
Masters of Scale
Masters of Scale is a business and entrepreneurship podcast that explores how companies grow from startup to massive scale through interviews with leading founders and innovators.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | nonfiction book ⓘ |
| about |
digital communication
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online social networks ⓘ rise of social media ⓘ |
| author | David Kirkpatrick ⓘ |
| basedOn |
interviews with Facebook employees
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interviews with Facebook executives ⓘ interviews with investors ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| describes |
Facebook’s advertising strategy
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Facebook’s approach to privacy ⓘ Facebook’s business model ⓘ Facebook’s corporate culture ⓘ Facebook’s early history at Harvard ⓘ Facebook’s expansion beyond colleges ⓘ Facebook’s global expansion ⓘ Facebook’s product development ⓘ competition in the social networking market ⓘ relationship between Facebook and its users ⓘ role of venture capital in Facebook’s growth ⓘ social and political implications of Facebook ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Dustin Moskovitz
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Eduardo Saverin ⓘ Mark Zuckerberg ⓘ Sean Parker ⓘ Sheryl Sandberg ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
founding of Facebook
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global impact of Facebook ⓘ growth of Facebook ⓘ impact of Facebook on business ⓘ impact of Facebook on society ⓘ impact of Facebook on technology ⓘ |
| genre |
business book
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history of technology ⓘ technology book ⓘ |
| hasPerspective | insider account based on interviews ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Facebook
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entrepreneurship ⓘ social networking services ⓘ startups ⓘ technology industry ⓘ |
| mediaType |
audiobook
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ebook ⓘ print ⓘ |
| publisher | Simon & Schuster ⓘ |
| subjectOf | book reviews ⓘ |
| timePeriodCovered |
early 2000s
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first decade of Facebook’s existence ⓘ |
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: The Facebook Effect Description of subject: The Facebook Effect is a nonfiction book by David Kirkpatrick that chronicles the founding, growth, and global impact of Facebook on technology, business, and society.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.