Hampton Sides
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Hampton Sides is an American historian and bestselling narrative nonfiction author known for his gripping accounts of exploration, war, and adventure.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hampton Sides canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1771201 — 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: Hampton Sides Context triple: [The Great Raid, basedOnWorkAuthor, Hampton Sides]
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A.
Lawrence Wright
Lawrence Wright is an American journalist, author, and screenwriter best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative nonfiction works on topics such as terrorism and Scientology.
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B.
Kai Bird
Kai Bird is an American historian, biographer, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author best known for co-writing the J. Robert Oppenheimer biography "American Prometheus."
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C.
H. Halberstam
H. Halberstam was a British mathematician known for his contributions to analytic number theory, particularly in the distribution of prime numbers.
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D.
Tracy Kidder
Tracy Kidder is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author best known for his narrative nonfiction works such as "The Soul of a New Machine" and "Mountains Beyond Mountains."
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E.
Stephen Kinzer
Stephen Kinzer is an American author and former New York Times foreign correspondent known for his books on U.S. foreign policy, regime change, and the history of American intervention abroad.
- 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: Hampton Sides Target entity description: Hampton Sides is an American historian and bestselling narrative nonfiction author known for his gripping accounts of exploration, war, and adventure.
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A.
Lawrence Wright
Lawrence Wright is an American journalist, author, and screenwriter best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative nonfiction works on topics such as terrorism and Scientology.
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B.
Kai Bird
Kai Bird is an American historian, biographer, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author best known for co-writing the J. Robert Oppenheimer biography "American Prometheus."
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C.
H. Halberstam
H. Halberstam was a British mathematician known for his contributions to analytic number theory, particularly in the distribution of prime numbers.
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D.
Tracy Kidder
Tracy Kidder is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author best known for his narrative nonfiction works such as "The Soul of a New Machine" and "Mountains Beyond Mountains."
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E.
Stephen Kinzer
Stephen Kinzer is an American author and former New York Times foreign correspondent known for his books on U.S. foreign policy, regime change, and the history of American intervention abroad.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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historian ⓘ human ⓘ journalist ⓘ nonfiction writer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
PEN West Award
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surface form:
PEN USA Literary Award for Research Nonfiction
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Yale University ⓘ |
| employer | Outside magazine ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
American history
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exploration history ⓘ military history ⓘ |
| genre |
exploration literature
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history ⓘ military history ⓘ narrative nonfiction ⓘ |
| hasWrittenAbout |
Old West
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surface form:
American West
Bataan Death March ⓘ Battle of Chosin Reservoir ⓘ
surface form:
Chosin Reservoir campaign
Jeannette Arctic expedition ⓘ Korean War ⓘ Navajo and American West conflicts ⓘ World War II ⓘ assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. ⓘ civil rights movement in the United States ⓘ polar exploration ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | gripping accounts of exploration, war, and adventure ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Americana
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Blood and Thunder ⓘ Ghost Soldiers ⓘ Hellhound on My Trail ⓘ
surface form:
Hellhound on His Trail
In the Kingdom of Ice ⓘ On Desperate Ground ⓘ |
| occupation |
editor
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historian ⓘ journalist ⓘ lecturer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | editor-at-large at Outside magazine ⓘ |
| writingStyle | narrative nonfiction ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Hampton Sides Description of subject: Hampton Sides is an American historian and bestselling narrative nonfiction author known for his gripping accounts of exploration, war, and adventure.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.