Clifford Irving

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Clifford Irving was an American author best known for his infamous 1970s literary hoax involving a fabricated autobiography of billionaire Howard Hughes.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Clifford Irving canonical 21
Clifford Michael Irving 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf author
human
memoirist
novelist
child David Irving
John Irving
surface form: John Edmond Irving

Josh Irving
convictedOf conspiracy
fraud
grand larceny
countryOfBirth United States of America
countryOfDeath United States of America
dateOfBirth 1930-11-05
dateOfDeath 2017-12-19
educatedAt Cornell University
employer McGraw-Hill
familyName Irving
genre biography
fiction
memoir
non-fiction
givenName Clifford
hasEthnicity Jewish
languageOfWorkOrName English
name Clifford Irving self-linksurface differs
surface form: Clifford Michael Irving
nationality American
notableEvent fabricated autobiography of Howard Hughes
notableFor Howard Hughes autobiography hoax
notableWork Fake! The Story of Elmyr de Hory, the Greatest Art Forger of Our Time
Final Argument
On a Darkling Plain
The Hoax
Tom Mix and Pancho Villa
occupation journalist
screenwriter
writer
placeOfBirth New York
New York City
placeOfDeath Florida
Sarasota, Florida
surface form: Sarasota
residence Ibiza, Spain
surface form: Ibiza

Sarasota, Florida
surface form: Sarasota
sentence prison term of about 2½ years
spouse Claire Lydon
Edith Sommer
Julie Irving
Maureen Earl
subjectOf film The Hoax
workLocation Ibiza, Spain
surface form: Ibiza

Mexico

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: Clifford Irving
Description of subject: Clifford Irving was an American author best known for his infamous 1970s literary hoax involving a fabricated autobiography of billionaire Howard Hughes.

Referenced by (22)

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

Irving hasNotableBearer Clifford Irving
Clifford Irving name Clifford Irving self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Clifford Michael Irving
F for Fake featuresCharacter Clifford Irving
F for Fake featuresPerson Clifford Irving
The Hoax author Clifford Irving
The Hoax aboutPerson Clifford Irving
On a Darkling Plain author Clifford Irving
On a Darkling Plain hasCreator Clifford Irving
On a Darkling Plain writtenBy Clifford Irving
On a Darkling Plain workOf Clifford Irving
Tom Mix and Pancho Villa author Clifford Irving
Tom Mix and Pancho Villa workOfAuthor Clifford Irving
Final Argument author Clifford Irving
Final Argument creator Clifford Irving
Final Argument writtenBy Clifford Irving
Josh Irving father Clifford Irving
Josh Irving notableFamilyMember Clifford Irving
David Irving father Clifford Irving
Julie Irving spouse Clifford Irving
Julie Irving spouseOfNotableWorkAuthor Clifford Irving
Claire Lydon spouse Clifford Irving