Elizabeth Kolbert
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Elizabeth Kolbert is an American journalist and author known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning environmental writing on climate change and mass extinction, particularly in her book "The Sixth Extinction."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Elizabeth Kolbert canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T307910 — 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: Elizabeth Kolbert Context triple: [The Sixth Extinction, author, Elizabeth Kolbert]
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A.
Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist, author, and founder of the climate advocacy group 350.org, known for his influential work on climate change and environmental justice.
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B.
Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her critiques of corporate globalization and climate injustice in works such as "No Logo" and "This Changes Everything."
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C.
Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson was an American marine biologist and environmentalist whose groundbreaking book "Silent Spring" helped launch the modern environmental movement.
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D.
Christina Lamb
Christina Lamb is a British journalist and author best known for co-writing Malala Yousafzai’s memoir "I Am Malala" and for her award-winning foreign correspondence.
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E.
Gretchen C. Daily
Gretchen C. Daily is an American ecologist and conservation biologist renowned for pioneering the concept of ecosystem services and integrating biodiversity conservation with economic and policy decision-making.
- 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: Elizabeth Kolbert Target entity description: Elizabeth Kolbert is an American journalist and author known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning environmental writing on climate change and mass extinction, particularly in her book "The Sixth Extinction."
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A.
Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist, author, and founder of the climate advocacy group 350.org, known for his influential work on climate change and environmental justice.
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B.
Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her critiques of corporate globalization and climate injustice in works such as "No Logo" and "This Changes Everything."
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C.
Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson was an American marine biologist and environmentalist whose groundbreaking book "Silent Spring" helped launch the modern environmental movement.
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D.
Christina Lamb
Christina Lamb is a British journalist and author best known for co-writing Malala Yousafzai’s memoir "I Am Malala" and for her award-winning foreign correspondence.
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E.
Gretchen C. Daily
Gretchen C. Daily is an American ecologist and conservation biologist renowned for pioneering the concept of ecosystem services and integrating biodiversity conservation with economic and policy decision-making.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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book ⓘ book ⓘ book ⓘ journalist ⓘ non-fiction writer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| author |
Elizabeth Kolbert
self-linksurface differs
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Elizabeth Kolbert self-linksurface differs ⓘ Elizabeth Kolbert self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Heinz Award
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Louis J. Battan Author’s Award ⓘ National Magazine Awards ⓘ
surface form:
National Magazine Award
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction ⓘ
surface form:
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
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| citizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| coveredTopic |
anthropocene
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biodiversity loss ⓘ environmental policy ⓘ global warming ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Yale University ⓘ |
| employer | The New Yorker ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
climate science communication
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environmentalism ⓘ science journalism ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
environmental writing
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non-fiction ⓘ science writing ⓘ |
| hasWrittenFor |
Newsweek magazine
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surface form:
Newsweek
The New York Times ⓘ The New Yorker ⓘ |
| knownFor |
climate change reporting
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environmental journalism ⓘ writing on mass extinction ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notablePublication |
articles on the sixth mass extinction
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essays on geoengineering ⓘ series on climate change for The New Yorker ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Field Notes from a Catastrophe
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surface form:
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
The Sixth Extinction ⓘ
surface form:
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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journalist ⓘ staff writer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | staff writer at The New Yorker ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
interviews on climate change
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literary reviews of The Sixth Extinction ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Elizabeth Kolbert Description of subject: Elizabeth Kolbert is an American journalist and author known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning environmental writing on climate change and mass extinction, particularly in her book "The Sixth Extinction."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
subject surface form:
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
subject surface form:
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future