Sam Kean
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Sam Kean is an American science writer known for his popular books that explore the history and human stories behind chemistry, physics, and the brain.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sam Kean canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9946158 — 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: Sam Kean Context triple: [Kean, hasNotableBearer, Sam Kean]
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A.
Carl Zimmer
Carl Zimmer is an American science writer and journalist renowned for his accessible and insightful books and articles on biology, evolution, and genetics.
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B.
Dava Sobel
Dava Sobel is an American science writer and former New York Times science reporter best known for popular history-of-science books such as "Longitude" and "Galileo's Daughter."
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C.
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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D.
Lauran Paine
Lauran Paine was an American author best known for his prolific output of Western novels, many published under various pseudonyms and adapted for film.
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E.
Jerry Coyne
Jerry Coyne is an American evolutionary biologist and outspoken critic of religion, best known for his work on speciation and his popular science book "Why Evolution Is True."
- 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: Sam Kean Target entity description: Sam Kean is an American science writer known for his popular books that explore the history and human stories behind chemistry, physics, and the brain.
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A.
Carl Zimmer
Carl Zimmer is an American science writer and journalist renowned for his accessible and insightful books and articles on biology, evolution, and genetics.
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B.
Dava Sobel
Dava Sobel is an American science writer and former New York Times science reporter best known for popular history-of-science books such as "Longitude" and "Galileo's Daughter."
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C.
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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D.
Lauran Paine
Lauran Paine was an American author best known for his prolific output of Western novels, many published under various pseudonyms and adapted for film.
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E.
Jerry Coyne
Jerry Coyne is an American evolutionary biologist and outspoken critic of religion, best known for his work on speciation and his popular science book "Why Evolution Is True."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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non-fiction author ⓘ person ⓘ science writer ⓘ |
| author |
Sam Kean
NERFINISHED
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Sam Kean NERFINISHED ⓘ Sam Kean NERFINISHED ⓘ Sam Kean NERFINISHED ⓘ Sam Kean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
George Washington University
NERFINISHED
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University of Minnesota ⓘ |
| employer | Science magazine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
chemistry
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history of science ⓘ neuroscience ⓘ physics ⓘ |
| genre |
popular science
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science history ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | podcaster ⓘ |
| hasWrittenAbout |
DNA
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World War II science ⓘ brain ⓘ gases ⓘ genetics ⓘ neurosurgery ⓘ nuclear physics ⓘ periodic table of elements ⓘ |
| knownFor |
making complex science accessible to general audiences
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storytelling approach to science ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Caesar’s Last Breath
NERFINISHED
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The Bastard Brigade NERFINISHED ⓘ The Disappearing Spoon NERFINISHED ⓘ The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons NERFINISHED ⓘ The Violinist’s Thumb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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journalist ⓘ science writer ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writesIn | English ⓘ |
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: Sam Kean Description of subject: Sam Kean is an American science writer known for his popular books that explore the history and human stories behind chemistry, physics, and the brain.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.