Eric Schlosser
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Eric Schlosser is an American investigative journalist and author best known for his critical examinations of the fast food industry and industrial food production, including the book "Fast Food Nation."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eric Schlosser canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9735539 — 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: Eric Schlosser Context triple: [Food, Inc., executiveProducer, Eric Schlosser]
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A.
Jeffrey Kluger
Jeffrey Kluger is an American science and technology journalist and author best known for co-writing the book about the Apollo 13 mission that inspired the film adaptation.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Ron Powers
Ron Powers is an American author and journalist known for his works of nonfiction, including co-authoring the World War II history book "Flags of Our Fathers."
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E.
Marc Rosenthal
Marc Rosenthal is an American illustrator and cartoonist known for his humorous, retro-style artwork in children’s books and magazines.
- 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: Eric Schlosser Target entity description: Eric Schlosser is an American investigative journalist and author best known for his critical examinations of the fast food industry and industrial food production, including the book "Fast Food Nation."
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A.
Jeffrey Kluger
Jeffrey Kluger is an American science and technology journalist and author best known for co-writing the book about the Apollo 13 mission that inspired the film adaptation.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Ron Powers
Ron Powers is an American author and journalist known for his works of nonfiction, including co-authoring the World War II history book "Flags of Our Fathers."
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E.
Marc Rosenthal
Marc Rosenthal is an American illustrator and cartoonist known for his humorous, retro-style artwork in children’s books and magazines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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investigative journalist ⓘ non-fiction writer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| alive | true ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Sidney Hillman Foundation Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1959-08-17 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Oriel College, Oxford
NERFINISHED
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Princeton University ⓘ |
| familyName | Schlosser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
food industry
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investigative journalism ⓘ nuclear weapons policy ⓘ prison system ⓘ |
| genre | investigative non-fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Eric NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWrittenFor |
Rolling Stone
NERFINISHED
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The Atlantic NERFINISHED ⓘ The Nation NERFINISHED ⓘ The New Yorker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | progressivism ⓘ |
| name | Eric Schlosser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
critique of industrial food production
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critique of the fast food industry ⓘ reporting on nuclear weapons safety ⓘ reporting on the American prison system ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Command and Control
NERFINISHED
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Fast Food Nation NERFINISHED ⓘ Reefer Madness NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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journalist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| politicalView | liberal ⓘ |
| spouse | Shauna Redford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Fast Food Nation (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote |
Chew on This
NERFINISHED
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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety NERFINISHED ⓘ Fast Food Nation NERFINISHED ⓘ Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market NERFINISHED ⓘ script for the film Fast Food Nation ⓘ |
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: Eric Schlosser Description of subject: Eric Schlosser is an American investigative journalist and author best known for his critical examinations of the fast food industry and industrial food production, including the book "Fast Food Nation."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.