Ed McBain

E507826

pen name

Ed McBain was the pen name of American author Evan Hunter, best known for his influential 87th Precinct police procedural novels and his significant impact on modern crime fiction.

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Label	Occurrences
Ed McBain canonical	4

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	pen name ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Evan Hunter NERFINISHED ⓘ Salvatore Albert Lombino NERFINISHED ⓘ
awardReceived	Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
fieldOfWork	crime literature ⓘ detective fiction ⓘ
genre	crime fiction ⓘ police procedural ⓘ
hasInfluenceOn	multi-plot police ensemble narratives ⓘ procedural realism in crime novels ⓘ
hasPart	fictional city of Isola ⓘ
hasSeries	87th Precinct NERFINISHED ⓘ Matthew Hope series NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasTheme	police teamwork ⓘ social issues in big cities ⓘ urban crime ⓘ
influenced	modern crime fiction ⓘ police procedural genre ⓘ
inspired	later television police dramas ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
literaryMovement	hardboiled crime fiction ⓘ
notableCharacter	Bert Kling NERFINISHED ⓘ Cotton Hawes NERFINISHED ⓘ Meyer Meyer NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Carella NERFINISHED ⓘ The Deaf Man NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableWork	87th Precinct series NERFINISHED ⓘ Cop Hater NERFINISHED ⓘ King's Ransom NERFINISHED ⓘ Let’s Hear It for the Deaf Man NERFINISHED ⓘ Sadie When She Died NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mugger NERFINISHED ⓘ The Pusher NERFINISHED ⓘ
occupation	novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ short story writer ⓘ
periodOfActivity	20th century ⓘ late 20th century ⓘ
realName	Evan Hunter NERFINISHED ⓘ
settingOfWork	fictionalized New York City ⓘ
usedBy	Evan Hunter NERFINISHED ⓘ
usedFor	crime novels ⓘ police procedural novels ⓘ
writingStyle	ensemble cast storytelling ⓘ realistic depiction of police work ⓘ

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: Ed McBain
Description of subject: Ed McBain was the pen name of American author Evan Hunter, best known for his influential 87th Precinct police procedural novels and his significant impact on modern crime fiction.

Referenced by (4)

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

Edgar Allan Poe Grand Master Award → hasRecipient → Ed McBain ⓘ

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine → hasNotableContributor → Ed McBain ⓘ

Evan Hunter → alsoKnownAs → Ed McBain ⓘ

Evan Hunter → usedPenNameFor → Ed McBain ⓘ