How Contagion Works
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How Contagion Works is a short nonfiction book by Italian writer Paolo Giordano that reflects on the COVID-19 pandemic and explores how contagion shapes societies, behaviors, and interconnected global systems.
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| How Contagion Works canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: How Contagion Works Context triple: [Paolo Giordano, notableWork, How Contagion Works]
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A.
Contagion (2011 film)
Contagion (2011 film) is a 2011 medical thriller directed by Steven Soderbergh that follows the rapid global spread of a deadly virus and the scientific and social responses to the ensuing pandemic.
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B.
La Contagion sacrée
La Contagion sacrée is an 18th-century philosophical critique of religion by Baron d'Holbach that attacks superstition and the social and moral harms of organized faith.
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C.
Infectious Diseases of Humans: Dynamics and Control
Infectious Diseases of Humans: Dynamics and Control is a seminal book that applies mathematical modeling to understand and predict the spread and control of infectious diseases in human populations.
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D.
The Hot Zone
The Hot Zone is a nonfiction thriller by Richard Preston that chronicles the origins and terrifying outbreaks of deadly filoviruses like Ebola and Marburg.
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E.
2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The 2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was a major Ebola virus outbreak in the country’s conflict-affected eastern region that became the second-largest Ebola epidemic ever recorded and prompted a global emergency response.
- 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: How Contagion Works Target entity description: How Contagion Works is a short nonfiction book by Italian writer Paolo Giordano that reflects on the COVID-19 pandemic and explores how contagion shapes societies, behaviors, and interconnected global systems.
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A.
Contagion (2011 film)
Contagion (2011 film) is a 2011 medical thriller directed by Steven Soderbergh that follows the rapid global spread of a deadly virus and the scientific and social responses to the ensuing pandemic.
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B.
La Contagion sacrée
La Contagion sacrée is an 18th-century philosophical critique of religion by Baron d'Holbach that attacks superstition and the social and moral harms of organized faith.
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C.
Infectious Diseases of Humans: Dynamics and Control
Infectious Diseases of Humans: Dynamics and Control is a seminal book that applies mathematical modeling to understand and predict the spread and control of infectious diseases in human populations.
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D.
The Hot Zone
The Hot Zone is a nonfiction thriller by Richard Preston that chronicles the origins and terrifying outbreaks of deadly filoviruses like Ebola and Marburg.
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E.
2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The 2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was a major Ebola virus outbreak in the country’s conflict-affected eastern region that became the second-largest Ebola epidemic ever recorded and prompted a global emergency response.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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essay ⓘ nonfiction book ⓘ |
| author | Paolo Giordano ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Italy ⓘ |
| explores |
how contagion shapes behaviors
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how contagion shapes global systems ⓘ how contagion shapes societies ⓘ |
| focusesOnEvent | COVID-19 pandemic ⓘ |
| genre |
essay
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nonfiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorNationality | Italian ⓘ |
| hasEnglishTitle | How Contagion Works self-link ⓘ |
| hasForm | short book ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
collective responsibility
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risk and uncertainty ⓘ social impact of disease ⓘ systems thinking ⓘ vulnerability of modern societies ⓘ |
| literaryForm | short nonfiction ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
COVID-19 pandemic
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contagion ⓘ epidemics ⓘ globalization ⓘ interconnectedness ⓘ public health ⓘ social behavior ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Italian ⓘ |
| publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing ⓘ |
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