George Packer
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George Packer is an American journalist, novelist, and non-fiction writer best known for his political reporting and books such as "The Assassins' Gate" and "The Unwinding."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| George Packer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9592301 — 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: George Packer Context triple: [Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hasPublished, George Packer]
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A.
Evan Osnos
Evan Osnos is an American journalist and author known for his in-depth reporting on politics and foreign affairs, particularly U.S.-China relations, as a staff writer for The New Yorker.
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B.
Franklin Foer
Franklin Foer is an American journalist and author best known for serving as editor of the political and cultural magazine The New Republic.
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C.
David Barstow
David Barstow is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American investigative journalist known for his in-depth reporting for The New York Times on corporate malfeasance, political influence, and major national crises.
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D.
Lawrence Wright
Lawrence Wright is an American journalist, author, and screenwriter best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative nonfiction works on topics such as terrorism and Scientology.
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E.
Paul Berman
Paul Berman is an American writer and political essayist known for his analyses of liberalism, totalitarianism, and U.S. foreign policy in publications such as The New Republic.
- 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: George Packer Target entity description: George Packer is an American journalist, novelist, and non-fiction writer best known for his political reporting and books such as "The Assassins' Gate" and "The Unwinding."
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A.
Evan Osnos
Evan Osnos is an American journalist and author known for his in-depth reporting on politics and foreign affairs, particularly U.S.-China relations, as a staff writer for The New Yorker.
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B.
Franklin Foer
Franklin Foer is an American journalist and author best known for serving as editor of the political and cultural magazine The New Republic.
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C.
David Barstow
David Barstow is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American investigative journalist known for his in-depth reporting for The New York Times on corporate malfeasance, political influence, and major national crises.
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D.
Lawrence Wright
Lawrence Wright is an American journalist, author, and screenwriter best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative nonfiction works on topics such as terrorism and Scientology.
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E.
Paul Berman
Paul Berman is an American writer and political essayist known for his analyses of liberalism, totalitarianism, and U.S. foreign policy in publications such as The New Republic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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journalist ⓘ non-fiction writer ⓘ novelist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Hitchens Prize
NERFINISHED
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National Book Award for Nonfiction NERFINISHED ⓘ Overseas Press Club Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1960 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Yale University ⓘ |
| employer |
The Atlantic
NERFINISHED
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The New Yorker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
American society
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Iraq War NERFINISHED ⓘ foreign policy ⓘ politics ⓘ |
| genre |
journalism
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literary journalism ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ political writing ⓘ |
| hasWrittenFor |
Foreign Affairs
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Atlantic NERFINISHED ⓘ The New York Times Magazine NERFINISHED ⓘ The New Yorker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Council on Foreign Relations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Blood of the Liberals
NERFINISHED
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Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade NERFINISHED ⓘ Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century NERFINISHED ⓘ The Assassins' Gate NERFINISHED ⓘ The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq NERFINISHED ⓘ The Great Unwinding NERFINISHED ⓘ The Unwinding NERFINISHED ⓘ The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America NERFINISHED ⓘ The Village of Waiting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
editor
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essayist ⓘ journalist ⓘ novelist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Palo Alto, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Laura Secor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
United States politics
NERFINISHED
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international relations ⓘ social change in America ⓘ war and conflict ⓘ |
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: George Packer Description of subject: George Packer is an American journalist, novelist, and non-fiction writer best known for his political reporting and books such as "The Assassins' Gate" and "The Unwinding."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.