Michael Lewis
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Michael Lewis is an American non-fiction author and financial journalist best known for his narrative books on business, economics, and sports, including "Moneyball," "The Big Short," and "Liar's Poker."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Lewis canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5382573 — 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: Michael Lewis Context triple: [Moneyball, basedOnWorkAuthor, Michael Lewis]
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A.
Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis is an American musician best known as a multi-instrumentalist and saxophonist active in indie rock and jazz-influenced projects.
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B.
Ben Mezrich
Ben Mezrich is an American author best known for writing nonfiction books about high-stakes gambling, technology, and finance, including the work that inspired the film "The Social Network."
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C.
Arnie Risen
Arnie Risen was an American professional basketball center and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer who starred in the early NBA, winning championships with the Rochester Royals and Boston Celtics.
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D.
Kurt Eichenwald
Kurt Eichenwald is an American journalist and author known for his investigative reporting and nonfiction books on corporate crime and financial scandals.
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E.
Roger Gage
Roger Gage is a British stage director known for his work in theatre and for having been married to acclaimed actress Joan Plowright.
- 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: Michael Lewis Target entity description: Michael Lewis is an American non-fiction author and financial journalist best known for his narrative books on business, economics, and sports, including "Moneyball," "The Big Short," and "Liar's Poker."
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A.
Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis is an American musician best known as a multi-instrumentalist and saxophonist active in indie rock and jazz-influenced projects.
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B.
Ben Mezrich
Ben Mezrich is an American author best known for writing nonfiction books about high-stakes gambling, technology, and finance, including the work that inspired the film "The Social Network."
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C.
Arnie Risen
Arnie Risen was an American professional basketball center and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer who starred in the early NBA, winning championships with the Rochester Royals and Boston Celtics.
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D.
Kurt Eichenwald
Kurt Eichenwald is an American journalist and author known for his investigative reporting and nonfiction books on corporate crime and financial scandals.
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E.
Roger Gage
Roger Gage is a British stage director known for his work in theatre and for having been married to acclaimed actress Joan Plowright.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
financial journalist
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human ⓘ non-fiction author ⓘ |
| basedIn | Berkeley, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
London School of Economics
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Princeton University ⓘ |
| employer |
Bloomberg View
NERFINISHED
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The New Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ The New York Times Magazine NERFINISHED ⓘ Vanity Fair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
art history
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economics ⓘ |
| genre |
business writing
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financial writing ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ sports writing ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Michael Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
explaining complex financial topics to a general audience
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narrative books on business ⓘ narrative books on economics ⓘ narrative books on sports ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
NERFINISHED
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Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life NERFINISHED ⓘ Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt NERFINISHED ⓘ Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon NERFINISHED ⓘ Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood NERFINISHED ⓘ Liar's Poker NERFINISHED ⓘ Losers: The Road to Everyplace but the White House NERFINISHED ⓘ Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game NERFINISHED ⓘ Next: The Future Just Happened NERFINISHED ⓘ Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity NERFINISHED ⓘ The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine NERFINISHED ⓘ The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fifth Risk NERFINISHED ⓘ The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story NERFINISHED ⓘ The Premonition: A Pandemic Story NERFINISHED ⓘ The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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columnist ⓘ financial journalist ⓘ journalist ⓘ |
| spouse | Tabitha Soren NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| wroteAbout |
Major League Baseball
NERFINISHED
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Wall Street NERFINISHED ⓘ behavioral economics ⓘ high-frequency trading ⓘ subprime mortgage crisis ⓘ |
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: Michael Lewis Description of subject: Michael Lewis is an American non-fiction author and financial journalist best known for his narrative books on business, economics, and sports, including "Moneyball," "The Big Short," and "Liar's Poker."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.