Brad Meltzer
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Brad Meltzer is an American author best known for his political thrillers, non-fiction works on history and leadership, and the children's biography series "Ordinary People Change the World."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Brad Meltzer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9577298 — 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)
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Target entity: Brad Meltzer Context triple: [Meltzer, hasNotableBearer, Brad Meltzer]
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A.
Jonathan Harr
Jonathan Harr is an American author and journalist best known for his nonfiction legal thriller "A Civil Action," which chronicles a landmark environmental lawsuit.
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B.
Mark Blum
Mark Blum was an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in movies like "Desperately Seeking Susan" and "Crocodile Dundee."
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C.
Steven Brill
Steven Brill is an American film director, screenwriter, and actor best known for directing broad comedy films such as "Little Nicky," "Mr. Deeds," and "Without a Paddle."
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D.
Mitchell Zuckoff
Mitchell Zuckoff is an American journalist, nonfiction author, and Boston University professor known for his narrative histories and investigative works, including the book that inspired the film "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi."
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brad Meltzer Target entity description: Brad Meltzer is an American author best known for his political thrillers, non-fiction works on history and leadership, and the children's biography series "Ordinary People Change the World."
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A.
Jonathan Harr
Jonathan Harr is an American author and journalist best known for his nonfiction legal thriller "A Civil Action," which chronicles a landmark environmental lawsuit.
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B.
Mark Blum
Mark Blum was an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in movies like "Desperately Seeking Susan" and "Crocodile Dundee."
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C.
Steven Brill
Steven Brill is an American film director, screenwriter, and actor best known for directing broad comedy films such as "Little Nicky," "Mr. Deeds," and "Without a Paddle."
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D.
Mitchell Zuckoff
Mitchell Zuckoff is an American journalist, nonfiction author, and Boston University professor known for his narrative histories and investigative works, including the book that inspired the film "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi."
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
children's writer
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comic book writer ⓘ human ⓘ non-fiction writer ⓘ novelist ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Eisner Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia Law School
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University of Michigan ⓘ |
| employer | History Channel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Meltzer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
American history
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leadership and heroism ⓘ popular fiction ⓘ |
| genre |
biography
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historical non-fiction ⓘ legal thriller ⓘ political thriller ⓘ |
| givenName | Brad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Brad Meltzer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | New York Times bestselling author ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Brad Meltzer's Decoded
NERFINISHED
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Brad Meltzer's Lost History NERFINISHED ⓘ Dead Even NERFINISHED ⓘ Green Arrow: Archer's Quest NERFINISHED ⓘ Heroes for My Daughter NERFINISHED ⓘ Heroes for My Son NERFINISHED ⓘ History Decoded NERFINISHED ⓘ I Am Abraham Lincoln NERFINISHED ⓘ I Am Amelia Earhart NERFINISHED ⓘ I Am Martin Luther King, Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ I Am Rosa Parks NERFINISHED ⓘ Identity Crisis NERFINISHED ⓘ Justice League of America NERFINISHED ⓘ Ordinary People Change the World NERFINISHED ⓘ The Book of Fate NERFINISHED ⓘ The Book of Lies NERFINISHED ⓘ The Escape Artist NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fifth Assassin NERFINISHED ⓘ The First Conspiracy NERFINISHED ⓘ The First Counsel NERFINISHED ⓘ The Inner Circle NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lightning Rod NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lincoln Conspiracy NERFINISHED ⓘ The Millionaires NERFINISHED ⓘ The President's Shadow NERFINISHED ⓘ The Tenth Justice NERFINISHED ⓘ The Zero Game NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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screenwriter ⓘ television host ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Brooklyn, New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Brad Meltzer Description of subject: Brad Meltzer is an American author best known for his political thrillers, non-fiction works on history and leadership, and the children's biography series "Ordinary People Change the World."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.