Mark Geist

E197308
United States Marine Corps veteran author human public speaker security contractor

Mark Geist is a former U.S. Marine and security contractor best known as one of the Benghazi attack survivors whose actions were depicted in the book and film "13 Hours."

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Mark Geist canonical 4

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf United States Marine Corps veteran ⓘ
author ⓘ
human ⓘ
public speaker ⓘ
security contractor ⓘ
citizenship United States of America ⓘ
coAuthorOf book "13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi" ⓘ
surface form: 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi
conflict 2012 Benghazi attack ⓘ
countryOfService United States of America ⓘ
depictedIn 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi ⓘ
surface form: book 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi

film 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi ⓘ
genre non-fiction ⓘ
hasExperience combat operations ⓘ
protective security operations ⓘ
hasOccupation private security contractor ⓘ
hasRole member of CIA Annex security team in Benghazi ⓘ
knownFor being one of the security team members during the 2012 Benghazi attack ⓘ
having his actions depicted in the book 13 Hours ⓘ
having his actions depicted in the film 13 Hours ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName English ⓘ
militaryBranch United States Marine Corps ⓘ
militaryRank Marine ⓘ
notableEvent survived the 2012 Benghazi attack on U.S. facilities in Libya ⓘ
notableWork book "13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi" ⓘ
surface form: 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi
occupation author ⓘ
motivational speaker ⓘ
security contractor ⓘ
participantIn defense of the CIA Annex in Benghazi ⓘ
defense of the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi ⓘ
speaksLanguage English ⓘ

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: Mark Geist
Description of subject: Mark Geist is a former U.S. Marine and security contractor best known as one of the Benghazi attack survivors whose actions were depicted in the book and film "13 Hours."

Referenced by (4)

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

Mark "Oz" Geist in 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi → basedOn → Mark Geist ⓘ
subject surface form: Mark "Oz" Geist (13 Hours film character)
Jack Silva → basedOn → Mark Geist ⓘ
Kris Paronto → coAuthor → Mark Geist ⓘ
CIA Annex Security Team → hasMember → Mark Geist ⓘ