John Perkins

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book human memoirist non-fiction writer political writer

John Perkins is an American author and former economic hit man best known for his book "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man," in which he alleges involvement in covert economic manipulation on behalf of U.S. interests.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
John Perkins canonical	1
John Perkins (author)	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book ⓘ human ⓘ memoirist ⓘ non-fiction writer ⓘ political writer ⓘ
allegedRole	economic hit man for U.S. interests ⓘ
author	John Perkins NERFINISHED ⓘ John Perkins NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
familyName	Perkins NERFINISHED ⓘ
fieldOfWork	corporate power critique ⓘ economics-related political commentary ⓘ globalization critique ⓘ
genre	memoir ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ political non-fiction ⓘ political non-fiction ⓘ
givenName	John NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasOccupationHistory	business consultant ⓘ chief economist in private sector ⓘ
hasWrittenAbout	International Monetary Fund NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. foreign policy ⓘ World Bank NERFINISHED ⓘ developing countries debt ⓘ
knownFor	critiquing U.S. foreign economic policy ⓘ describing role as an economic hit man ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
mainSubjectOfWork	corporate empire ⓘ covert economic manipulation ⓘ economic imperialism ⓘ
movement	anti-globalization movement ⓘ corporate accountability movement ⓘ
name	John Perkins NERFINISHED ⓘ
nationality	American ⓘ
notableFor	allegations of covert economic manipulation on behalf of U.S. interests ⓘ
notableWork	Confessions of an Economic Hit Man NERFINISHED ⓘ The Secret History of the American Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ
occupation	activist ⓘ author ⓘ former economic hit man ⓘ lecturer ⓘ
placeOfActivity	United States of America ⓘ
positionHeld	consultant in international development sector ⓘ
writesAbout	alternative economic models ⓘ environmental sustainability ⓘ indigenous rights ⓘ

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: John Perkins
Description of subject: John Perkins is an American author and former economic hit man best known for his book "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man," in which he alleges involvement in covert economic manipulation on behalf of U.S. interests.

Referenced by (2)

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

Perkins → hasNotableBearer → John Perkins ⓘ

this entity surface form: John Perkins (author)